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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:05 PM
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Do you consider your 4-runner a truck?

So this may sound stupid but i have dumb friends and whenever i talk about my "truck" they are quick to say ..."dude its an SUV" this bugs the crap out of me! its a freakin toyota pickup with a fiberglass shell added to it. Plus i think it doesnt sound right to say...."Yea...this weekened I got my SUV lookin sweet".....No, you say "I got my Truck lookin sweet.
Mabey its just me and I need to find new friends...Or am i in the wrong?
Give me some opinions!
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:10 PM
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i call mine my truck or my runner, depending on who im talking to cuz i have my toyota pickup and my runner so depends, but after i sell my truck i will call my runner my truck i think i need new friends to mine think that a toyota doesnt fall under the catagory of truck cuz it doesnt have a v8
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:13 PM
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I call mine a truck sometimes, but it sounds all wrong. More often i call it my 4runner. Although sometimes i just call it my car (yeah yeah, i know but it's like coke, soda and pop). Or if i am feeling really good about it i call it my rig
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:17 PM
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My 4runner was imported to this country as a truck, and sold as a truck. It didn't come with rear seats, and had a bed all the way to the front seats. The rear seat was added as an after market option.

It is a truck, and I call it a truck.
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:18 PM
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I call it my truck about 99% of the time. It is a truck, called a 4-runner. It even has a tailgate.
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:19 PM
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mine doesnt have a tailgate
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:28 PM
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i call mine a truck. it basically is so why not? i would say 1st gens could be called trucks and the rest are SUVs
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:29 PM
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What does DMV say?

I think mine was an SUV... not sure though
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:41 PM
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technically, we have wagons.
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 10:43 PM
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The State of Wisconsin doesn't recognize SUV's. You can not register or license an SUV in Wisconsin. You can not register a 4Runner as a car either, you may however use "automobile" plates (it will still be titled as TRUCK) if you do not haul material. Since the State of Wisconsin (a branch of government) does not recognize the 4Runner as a car, SUV or a go-cart, I will not oppose their decision. I also refuse to use the term SUV, short for (Soccermom's Ugly Van) in regard to the 4Runner.
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 11:07 PM
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It's a truck frame with a different body, it's a truck. What about 4th gen's though SUV or truck.
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Old Dec 21, 2007 | 11:19 PM
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according to the title on my old 4runner it was a station wagon.

i called it all sorts of different things
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 01:22 AM
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Definitely a truck. Second gens and up are more SUVish to me, but I suppose they could be called trucks as well.
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 01:46 AM
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I call it my truck to people who havent seen it and I call it the runner to my friends.
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Joby8103
So this may sound stupid but i have dumb friends and whenever i talk about my "truck" they are quick to say ..."dude its an SUV" this bugs the crap out of me! its a freakin toyota pickup with a fiberglass shell added to it. Plus i think it doesnt sound right to say...."Yea...this weekened I got my SUV lookin sweet".....No, you say "I got my Truck lookin sweet.
Mabey its just me and I need to find new friends...Or am i in the wrong?
Give me some opinions!
I have the same issue you do my friend, and all my friends bark back at me and say its an SUV not a truck. Maybe we all could just become one big happy family and not have to worry about anyone else.
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 04:15 AM
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i call mine a truck too or 4runner
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 05:35 AM
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For the way it rides,gas mileage it gets,it's a truck.
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 06:07 AM
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I call it my runner and sometimes my truck, but mostly the runner.
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 06:24 AM
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its got a truck frame so its a truck. unibody suv's are cars.
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 06:36 AM
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When ever its not running its a piece of shat

When is running right its definitely a rig

whats an suv???
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