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BMR only says a vehicle is destroyed when the internal structure of any location is destroyed, not mentioning the turret, but Maximum Tech (on page 39 of my PDF) clarifies (or changes?) it to exclude the turret or rotor:
VEHICLE DESTRUCTION
A vehicle is destroyed if any location except a turret or rotor
loses all of its internal structure. If a turret or rotor is destroyed,
damage from additional hits to the turret or rotor location transfer
to the side hit.
Of course, critical hits can destroy one as well, but that's not what the question was.
Ta. You know, I read that paragraph about three times, and yet that last sentence still obvously didn't register! Duh. Must have not seen that for looking (it was coming to packing up time)! I assume when it means "side hit" it must logically follow it means the facing the attack would have hit anyway; so I was right, then, after all. Thanks again.