1996 Ford Club Wagon The body-on-frame King of the Road. By Jim McCraw, New Car Test Drive .com

The undisputed market leader in the full-size passenger van segment is the Ford Club

Wagon, the passenger version of the Econoline van. The Club Wagon, until this model

year the only full-size passenger van with body-on-frame construction, has always been

head-and-shoulders better than the Chevrolet and Dodge full-size vans, which are built

with unitbody construction techniques and simply aren't as stiff or as quiet as the

frame-built Ford. The 1996 Chevrolet G-van (see page 112) has switched over to

body-on-frame construction and should finally give the Ford some competition in the

marketplace.