Editing Monocoque (section)

===Road cars===
[[File:ГАЗ М-72 в Хабаровске.JPG|thumb|The [[GAZ-M20 Pobeda|GAZ M-72]] was the world's first series-produced monocoque four-wheel drive (1955).{{fact|date=August 2021}}]]

The term ''monocoque'' is frequently misapplied to [[Vehicle frame#Unibody|unibody]] cars. Commercial car bodies are almost never true monocoques but instead use the unibody system (also referred to as unitary construction, unitary body–chassis or body–frame integral construction),<ref>[http://www.naaamap.com/NAAA/documents/NAAAStructuralDamagePolicy_Jan2011.pdf NAAA Structural Damage Policy] dated 1 January 2011, retrieved 29 March 2012</ref> in which the body of the vehicle, its floor pan, and chassis form a single structure, while the skin adds relatively little strength or stiffness.<ref>Allan, Rob. [http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/Mercia/killeen_book/node3.html The Killeen Cars] Accessdate:October 2014</ref>