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Post by compeateropeator on Jan 22, 2023 20:47:50 GMT
I have notice on some Instagram posts and just heard in a Hallmark movie someone referring to their SUV as a truck. I have never heard them referred to as a truck in my area or by anyone I know. Car would be the generic term I hear.
I did google it and they are/were (until 2008 to 2013) built on a light truck chassis and technically considered one. They are now considered a crossover. I have never referred to an SUV as a truck even in their early days…did/do you?
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Post by Neisey on Jan 22, 2023 20:52:51 GMT
My DSO and my brother both call their SUVs a truck…which IMHO they absolutely are not.
To me a truck has a truck bed, which you could choose to cover with a cap but it is not a part of the interior space of the vehicle…that would be a car or SUV.
We were just out for a drive and I was giving DSO a hard time about this so I was excited to tell him the Peas would also be discussing this issue lol
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Post by johnnysmom on Jan 22, 2023 20:59:32 GMT
Consider it a truck? No. Call it a truck? Sometimes. We used to refer to dh’s Grand Cherokee as a truck more out of habit because his previous cars had been trucks….imagine the blow when the state classified it as a “station wagon” on the title 🤣
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jan 22, 2023 21:00:11 GMT
No, but a lot of people around here do. I'm not sure why but it bugs me.
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Post by elaine on Jan 22, 2023 21:08:28 GMT
I have notice on some Instagram posts and just heard in a Hallmark movie someone referring to their SUV as a truck. I have never heard them referred to as a truck in my area or by anyone I know. Car would be the generic term I hear. I did google it and they are/were (until 2008 to 2013) built on a light truck chassis and technically considered one. They are now considered a crossover. I have never referred to an SUV as a truck even in their early days…did/do you? In the early days of SUVs, I had an Explorer that I bought in 1996 and called that a truck because it was built on a truck chassis. The SUVs that I’ve owned since then were built on their own chassis - Ford Escape, and a Buick Enclave and Chevy Traverse (I have now) which have the same SUV chassis. |
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Post by peabay on Jan 22, 2023 21:14:12 GMT
we have a Suburban that we call "the truck" just to distinguish it from "the Subaru" and "the Acura" (why we don't just say "the Suburban" is beyond me.)
But we don't really think it's a truck and I would never tell anyone that we had a truck.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jan 22, 2023 21:55:32 GMT
No I don’t call an SUV a truck. I know that Americans call some big cars “trucks”. In Australia, the only vehicles that are called trucks are semi trailers and B Doubles etc.
So if you call a vehicle like a pick-up a “truck”, what do you call a semi trailer or B Double etc?
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Post by katlady on Jan 22, 2023 21:57:55 GMT
So if you call a vehicle like a pick-up a “truck”, what do you call a semi trailer or B Double etc? We call those trucks, or big rig trucks or Semis. Also called 18-wheelers. We have lots of names for them. But they are all trucks. ETA - we call them pickup trucks because they are built to carry and tow heavier loads than a passenger car. |
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Post by finsup on Jan 22, 2023 22:15:50 GMT
Lots of Mainers just call everything they drive a vehicle. Covers everything 😄
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Post by Ryann on Jan 22, 2023 22:17:32 GMT
I have a SUV and frequently refer to it as “car” in lieu of “vehicle”, but never “truck”. I don’t consider a SUV to be a car or a truck, even when I refer to it as a “car”.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jan 22, 2023 22:25:41 GMT
I have driven a full size SUV since 1986 (well various ones) and have never once called it a truck. My first two were on truck chassis and I still didn't call it a truck. If it doesn't have a bed at the back, it's a car IMO.
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Post by leannec on Jan 22, 2023 22:35:55 GMT
No ... can you imagine calling a Rav-4 a truck?  Here in Alberta, we are over run with real pick up trucks ... F150's, Silverado's, Tacoma's, Ram's ... I used to drive a number of F150's and loved them.  |
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Post by maryland on Jan 22, 2023 22:36:44 GMT
No, my husband has an suv and it doesn't look anything like a truck. I call it a car. But I can our minivan a car, so what do I know!
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Jan 22, 2023 23:06:27 GMT
No, my husband has an suv and it doesn't look anything like a truck. I call it a car. But I can our minivan a car, so what do I know! We have a van, truck and Telluride.  I tried to call the Telluride a car for simplicity, but I was questioned.  Car is just short for vehicle, right? |
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Post by milocat on Jan 22, 2023 23:14:49 GMT
Bigger SUVs arw on a truck chassis, smaller ones are crossovers. I call my own SUV a car. No one has a car so it's not confusing. If I was talking about someone else I would say Mary got a Highlander. AussieMeg no one says pick up truck here, everyone has one. DH has a truck and our company owns bigger trucks, it's not confusing to to talk about or others' trucks. |
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Post by Gennifer on Jan 22, 2023 23:16:03 GMT
No, and it drives me nuts. If it doesn’t have a truck bed, it’s not a truck. (But, weirdly, an El Camino is still not a truck even though it has a bed.)
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Post by pinklady on Jan 22, 2023 23:22:18 GMT
No and I judge people who do. Trucks have an open bed, everything else is a car.
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Post by lisae on Jan 22, 2023 23:31:49 GMT
I'm in the South. We know what a truck is. However, trucks are becoming more passenger vehicles than hauling vehicles. Big cab, little bed. An SUV is still different.
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Post by librarylady on Jan 22, 2023 23:33:42 GMT
No, but the state of Texas considers vehicles built on a truck chassis a Truck, so my registration indicates my Escape is a truck.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Jan 22, 2023 23:38:31 GMT
I was listening to a Dateline podcast the other day (the one about the lady abducted at the mall.) While she was being interviewed, she said she put her baby in the truck, and went to put the stroller in the back, then when she got in "the truck" she noticed the guy in the backseat by her 2 year old. Anyway... I thought she was referring to a truck. Turns out that the guy had a tendency to target large dark SUV's. I had to go back to listen to make sure I wasn't going crazy. LOL Also, a friend of mine just bought a Jeep Compass, and is convinced she has to learn how to do the Jeep wave HAHAHAHAHHAHA Can't wait to be "ducked." No one has the heart to tell her that she overpaid for a crappy SUV and doesn't get to join the Jeep cult that cheaply. Same with the Equinox drivers that refer to their car as a truck |
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Jan 22, 2023 23:47:54 GMT
No. A truck is a pick-up. Other “trucks” would always have a qualifier: dump truck, fire truck, tow truck. A semi is either a semi, big rig, or 18-wheeler.
An SUV is a mid-size or larger SUV. I have a hard time calling a CRV or Rav-4 an SUV so I might use the term crossover or would say a small SUV.
I also tend to use the term car to cover most personal vehicles, other than pick-ups (I would normally say truck). I might say Let’s take your car, even if it was an SUV.
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Post by stumpedagainof3 on Jan 23, 2023 0:10:11 GMT
My husband refers to our suv a truck all the time. It drives me crazy.
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Post by 950nancy on Jan 23, 2023 0:10:15 GMT
No, but the state of Texas considers vehicles built on a truck chassis a Truck, so my registration indicates my Escape is a truck. My insurance also calls my SUV a truck. My first license plate said it was a truck, too. I think it makes some truck drivers get all emotional, so I consider it an SUV. |
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Post by belgravia on Jan 23, 2023 0:13:58 GMT
I have driven large SUVs for many years and I still don’t know what to call them. Not a truck, but also definitely not a car. Can’t call it a Range Rover, that sounds pretentious. FWIW, my mechanic calls it a truck.
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Post by scrapngranny on Jan 23, 2023 0:29:42 GMT
My husband is a truck guy and says it is built to be a truck. He says frame and suspension are truck. Of course is word is law around here. 😛
ETA, here in California when you register an SUV it’s classified as a truck.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Jan 23, 2023 0:38:34 GMT
My DSO and my brother both call their SUVs a truck…which IMHO they absolutely are not. To me a truck has a truck bed, which you could choose to cover with a cap but it is not a part of the interior space of the vehicle…that would be a car or SUV.  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 23, 2023 0:44:23 GMT
I don’t but my insurance policy does.
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Post by maryland on Jan 23, 2023 1:07:58 GMT
No, my husband has an suv and it doesn't look anything like a truck. I call it a car. But I can our minivan a car, so what do I know! We have a van, truck and Telluride. I tried to call the Telluride a car for simplicity, but I was questioned. Car is just short for vehicle, right? I love the word Telluride! My husband was test driving a few cars and I was hoping he would get that for the neat name! |
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Post by BSnyder on Jan 23, 2023 1:15:38 GMT
I don’t. But, our state issues truck tags for SUVs.
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Post by don on Jan 23, 2023 1:29:58 GMT
Wow! I'm sure glad we got that all cleared up.
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I tried to call the Telluride a car for simplicity, but I was questioned. 
Car is just short for vehicle, right? 
