Is a SUV or Van a truck?

[Earlsfat]

Originally Posted by Genopsyde

the poll results speak for themselves.

LMAO! A poll of 13 people, most of whom drive / own a car (more likely to consider anything taller than a camaro a truck) on whether an SUV is more like a car or a truck is not something I would consider as unbiased.

[FormulaLT1]

Originally Posted by Earlsfat

I gonna get it now ...

1. The majority was wrong when they thought the world was flat.
2. How could you call an SUV a Truck before SUV's were invented?
3. When it was invented, just because it had the wrong name doesn't mean it should be left that way.
4. As in my last post, or one of them anyway, a Sportage, Santa Fe, Raider, Escape, etc hardly qualify as a truck, let alone as a sport utility vehicle. (Yeah... I'm just busting Geno's balls, the S-10 / S-15 was the same platform as the Blazer, Jimmy & Bravada. BUT! The new ones (Envoy, Trailblazer, etc) are getting farther & farther from be able to be considered a truck.)

Ima shut up now, because it seems as though certain persons are gettin mad.

1. We are talking about interpation of a vehicle type (which is based on majority's view) not a matter of fact.

2. Please don't start trying to be a wise ass, you know exactly what I meant as can be seen by your question 3 which means you know exactly what I meant.

3. The name it was given was based under the standard base vehicle type it was, the SUV title was given as another divider to split it from the main frame of the typical truck.

4.You can't pick and choice what type of vehicle it is based on the name on it. If you pull a corvette emblem off a corvette and stick a Cavalier emblem on it, it does not stop being a corvette.

[Earlsfat]

Originally Posted by FormulaLT1

the SUV title was given as another divider to split it from the main frame of the typical truck.

ummmm.... thanks you made my point.

Originally Posted by FormulaLT1

4.You can't pick and choice what type of vehicle it is based on the name on it. If you pull a corvette emblem off a corvette and stick a Cavalier emblem on it, it does not stop being a corvette.

Those were just examples. I'm just saying that the "definition" that a SUV is a performance off-road vehicle would preclude MOST of the SUV's from being an SUV. (if that made any sense, lol.)

You guys can call your SUV's what you want... anyone who drives a C/K1500, F150, RAM 1500, or one of their variants, etc is just gonna shake their heads (or laugh) when you call your [insert model name... RAV4, Envoy, RX400, etc] a truck.

[hotrod_chevyz]

so....

SUV With actual trucks frame/steer/susp. = worthy

SUV with "other" frame/steer/susp. = not worthy

A bravada has a truck frame. Same as blazers. you can get lift kits for them and run on 33's. They are light too even the ones with a 2.8 v-6 will do some mudding. But nothing compares to a 70's cj5 jeep when it comes to real four wheeling. What about jeeps anyways? truck? SUV?

What did they call it back in WWII? They didnt say "lets hop in the SUV and go kick some ass over and out!"

[Earlsfat]

Originally Posted by hotrod_chevyz

so....

SUV With actual trucks frame/steer/susp. = worthy

SUV with "other" frame/steer/susp. = not worthy

z'actly... imo.

Originally Posted by hotrod_chevyz

A bravada has a truck frame. Same as blazers. you can get lift kits for them and run on 33's. They are light too even the ones with a 2.8 v-6 will do some mudding. But nothing compares to a 70's cj5 jeep when it comes to real four wheeling. What about jeeps anyways? truck? SUV?

What did they call it back in WWII? They didnt say "lets hop in the SUV and go kick some ass over and out!"

I had an 86 blazer that went up just about every hill in Cumberland and Potter Counties in PA, great damned vehicle, even with the 2.8 and the catalytic conversion conversion (hollowed out). Never rolled it, but came awfully damned close a couple times. If the electrical system and brakes hadn't both failed at 300,000 miles and cost so much to fix I'd probably STILL have it. I think the only (semi) major repair was a blown heater core once, and a frozen caliper around 150,000 miles.

Jeep = Jeep.

[Rally Sport]

They called Jeeps, Willy's Jeep in WWII, also Ford made Jeeps back in WWII but they called em model names like GP and crap.

[SLPbirdy00]

Originally Posted by cuda_dude

a truck is a truck, a car is a car, a van is a van and an suv is an suv.... what is so hard about that concept

Not excatly...Take the new Honda truck "Ridgeline"...Its a rebadged "Accord" based minivan.

[Earlsfat]

Originally Posted by SLPbirdy00

Not excatly...Take the new Honda truck "Ridgeline"...Its a rebadged "Accord" based minivan.

No shit??? I was under the impression that the ridgeline was new from the ground up, and all truck.

Sneaky bastards.

[iroczman]

I belive that if a suv is based on a chassis then it could be considered a truck and if not then it is a form of van/or wagon that only is drove by chicks and in the word of earlsfat SERIOUS, limp-wristed fag. and the el camino is a cruck. half car half truck= cruck