What they all have in common, however, is a car-based platform, rather than a fully boxed truck platform.

The APS-3 differed from its predecessors which had been based on commercial truck platforms.

It will be followed at some point by a new Toyota Land Cruiser based on the same sturdy truck platform.

Now it is showing prototypes of full-size sport utilities based on that solid new truck platform.

At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.

They're official, so you've got as much right as anybody to shove up to that truck platform.

Brooks Stevens was also involved in the transformation of this truck platform into a passenger vehicle.

The first sport utilities (and many of today's best sellers) amounted to little more than passenger boxes on truck platforms.

A truck platform and a driver's hood was an extra option.

Typically, these vehicles are based on standard truck platforms, with extended wheelbases to accommodate the longer cabs.