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Posted: 7/19/2010 3:42:50 PM EDT

[#1]

If you tell her, "Get in the truck, bitch" would she know where to go? Answering this question will answer your question.

Posted: 7/19/2010 3:44:01 PM EDT

[#2]

I drive a truck......and that ain't one!!

Posted: 7/19/2010 3:45:40 PM EDT

[#3]

No frame

FWD with part time AWD

= SUV

Posted: 7/19/2010 3:48:01 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
SUV. I call my suv a truck all the time.

Tahoes, Expeditions, Suburbans hell even Explorers you can get away with calling trucks seeing as how they are built on the same platforms. Silverado, F-150, Ranger and so on. Escapes and other "crossovers" are just tall station wagons with AWD.

Posted: 7/19/2010 3:49:55 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Truck - 2010 Freightliner Cascadia
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/04/Freightliner_Cascadia_Innovation_Truck.jpg

Nope not a truck. That's a tractor.

Posted: 7/19/2010 4:19:16 PM EDT

[#6]

Automobile.

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:12:24 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
SUV. I call my suv a truck all the time.

Tahoes, Expeditions, Suburbans hell even Explorers you can get away with calling trucks seeing as how they are built on the same platforms. Silverado, F-150, Ranger and so on. Escapes and other "crossovers" are just tall station wagons with AWD.

The Explorer took a departure from the Ranger in 1995 and during the 2002.5 model change completely divorced itself from the Ranger line. Even going back to the original Explorer there were numerous significant differences between the two.

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:14:09 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
My former boss has one of these: http://image.trucktrend.com/f/9450445+w750+st0/163_news080401_02z+2008_ford_hybrids_tax_credit+2008_ford_escape_hybrid_rear.jpg But today her husband took it, and she was driving his Mustang.

She kept referring to it as her "truck". It took a lot in me not to correct her and call it an SUV.

Come on, here in IL, trucks have truck plates; not even a Suburban is a truck according to the S.o.S. Office.

When my sister bought her '96 Blazer, my mom asked the dealer what kind of plates it needed.

And for a long time in Indiana you could tag an SUV either way, car or truck. However, if you tagged it as a car, you had to follow the passenger car seatbelt laws instead of the truck laws which were more lax. Tag it as a car and you could wind up with a fistfull of seatbelt tickets.

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:18:42 PM EDT

[#9]

POS

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:19:13 PM EDT

[#10]

Thats a car baby!

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:24:05 PM EDT

[#11]

Former boss referred to his SUV as a truck. Really ticked me off, but never said anything.

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:26:09 PM EDT

[#12]

minivan

Posted: 7/19/2010 5:27:29 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
minivan

Please tell me where the sliding side door is on the Escape.

Posted: 7/19/2010 6:16:15 PM EDT

[#14]

It's an SUV, but if she wants to call it her "favorite aunt daisy" it's no skin off my nuts.

Posted: 7/19/2010 6:51:40 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:

minivan

Please tell me where the sliding side door is on the Escape.

not all minivans had those

look at Mazda

Edit but the mazda had a frame and a rear drive axle

Posted: 7/19/2010 7:30:40 PM EDT

[#16]

I call my "06 Sorento a truck because it has a frame.
They just put a different body on it for the U.S.market.
Now the newer ones are a unibody so I would call them an SUV.

Posted: 7/19/2010 7:41:37 PM EDT

[#17]

Car.

SUV's are either cars or trucks, IMHO.

That, my friend, is a glorified station wagon.

Posted: 7/19/2010 7:42:54 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's an SUV, but when I am talking about my Suburban I refer to it as a truck.

My sister used to call her S10 Blazer a truck all the time.

A Suburban, or a S10 Blazer, is a truck. It's a cab on a truck frame, what's underneath is the same.

That, however, is a station wagon.

Posted: 7/19/2010 7:43:57 PM EDT

[#19]

It's a SUV, but it's a lousy example of one. At work, we have two of the law enforcement models ( I work in private security) and they suck for a multitude of reasons. I could probably start my own thread outlining everything that is bad and wrong about the Ford Escape.

Posted: 7/19/2010 7:46:19 PM EDT

[#20]

That little thing looks like a car to me.

Posted: 7/19/2010 7:55:13 PM EDT

[#21]

one of the many 'crossover' vehicles like the Subaru Outback, GMC Envoy, GMC Arcadia, and so on...

Posted: 7/19/2010 10:03:40 PM EDT

[#22]

SUV, but could be referred to as a truck. It's definitely not a car or automobile.

Posted: 7/19/2010 10:06:50 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
It's an SUV, but when I am talking about my Suburban I refer to it as a truck.

Calling a Suburban a truck is more accurate than calling what's in the OP a truck. Suburbans are built on a 1/2 ton pickup frame and chassis.

Posted: 7/20/2010 9:00:26 AM EDT

[#24]

The family roll-over

Mommy box

Nanny van

Posted: 7/20/2010 9:01:59 AM EDT

[#25]

SUV.

Posted: 7/20/2010 9:12:50 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
My former boss has one of these: http://image.trucktrend.com/f/9450445+w750+st0/163_news080401_02z+2008_ford_hybrids_tax_credit+2008_ford_escape_hybrid_rear.jpg But today her husband took it, and she was driving his Mustang.

She kept referring to it as her "truck". It took a lot in me not to correct her and call it an SUV.

Station wagon.