The new Lexus GX is one of the coolest new SUVs on the market, with its boxy, kick-ass styling and twin-turbo V6. Thankfully, it should stick around for a while, as its ladder frame chassis was built ...

Toyota patents a ladder frame engine block design for V6/V8 engines, potentially for GR performance cars or heavy-duty applications.

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

The global race to electrify the pickup truck and SUV segments has hit a significant engineering hurdle - weight. While ...

These days, the SUV is, typically, built on some sort of car frame, unless it has its own, special architecture. Think of models like the Honda CR-V or the Toyota RAV4. Both are known as relatively ...

When Tesla first debuted the Cybertruck, there was an image shown displaying a factory ladder rack that would make the electric pickup truck highly versatile. This image went unnoticed until just ...

The VW Amarok bakkie is based on an company-developed, rugged ladder frame - a construction method ideal for its applications. Choice application of high-strength steels gives the chassis an ...

Most cars on our roads today are underpinned by a monocoque chassis. However, some models still come with a ladder-frame chassis. A ladder-frame chassis consists of two long beams on the sides of the ...

Hot on the heels of reports that Hyundai could launch a ladder-frame SUV, a designer has imagined what such a vehicle could look like. While Hyundai also builds a large SUV in the form of the Palisade ...

Hyundai has admitted that it is thinking about launching a ladder-frame SUV that could rival vehicles like the Chevrolet Tahoe and Ford Expedition. Hyundai and Kia both produce large SUVs in the form ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...