I call it a UAV

 

MINES A BEAST! haha, I usually refer to it as "that rusted pile over there..."

 

yeah, definately "truck" or "4runner" (we give it a new title, its not a truck, its a 4runner lol!) i think the new 4runners look more like SUV's though...

also, i wanted to say that the BMW x3 is not an SUV (friend told me this i thought it was stupid) its an "SAV" (Sports activity vehicle)

haha!

 

red3.slo said it best the 4runner is on a truck frame the highlander is a car frame as is the rav so i call my 06 runner a truck

 

I call mine a truck. In CA, it is registered as a commercial vehicle since it has an open bed (w/ the shell removed). Good thing, because if it were a passenger vehicle, would be limited to 24" height to the frame. Since it is commercial, it gets a 30" frame height limit!

 

I call mine a minivan because of the running boards. Maybe one day it will be made into a truck.

 

you remind me of my friend and myself.

he owns a Suzuki Samuri, and the very 1st time i saw it i said something with the word "jeep" in it.

he quickly said it was a samuri, (no doubt. but i didnt think much of it).
i said, ok.
later on, sometime i referred his rig to a jeep again, and he almost hit me. saying "ITS NOT A F#$%@IN JEEP!".
so, okay, issues i guess, but in my defence, its just a term.

to change the minds of others will change the time you spend having fun.
is it such a big deal ?
let them win with the suv thing, because i always call his samuri a jeep. (really, i make a huge issue of it, plus it caught on easy b/c so many poeple just recognize the little 4x4 as a jeep looking thing.

its still the best looking samuri ive seen, and awesome, but getting him all freaked about it is never boring..
besides, he swapped in a 22r engine, tranny and now its more of a custom climber than anything.

 

Mine is a truck because I say it is!

 

Mine is a station wagon according to DMV and insurance.

 

I think of my '86 4rnr as "sport utility vehicle" because that's what it is. But, since I use it almost exclusively for utility and have the back seat out of it, I call it my "truck".

Truck: definition
A motor vehicle carrying its load on its own wheels and primarily designed for the transportation of goods or cargo. A truck is similar to a passenger car in many basic aspects, but truck construction is usually heavier throughout with strengthened chassis and suspension, and lower transmission and drive-axle ratios to cope with hilly terrain. Other common truck characteristics include cargo-carrying features such as rear doors or tailgate, and a flat floor.

SUV: definition
A sport utility vehicle, or SUV, is a passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon together with on or off road ability. Most SUVs are designed with a roughly square cross-section, an engine compartment, a combined passenger and cargo compartment, and no dedicated trunk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_utility_vehicle

 

I've been calling mine "my rig" or "my truck".

I feel comfortable with both of those terms.

I may have to try out "my Runner"... sounds pretty jive to me...

I've only had it a month or so, so nothing is second nature yet (except "car", and that just won't do, lol).

 

If we just met i'll say 4Runner.....but those who know me well, i call it a truck.

 

i call it a truck, like red said its got a truck frame
when its broken down i call it bad words
and when ppl call it a car i say "i dont have a car..." they get confused
and when ppl call it a jeep i light their house on fire

 

Well, not really, if you're going off of LC nomenclature, Wagons have four doors, we'd have Troupies with really bad rear seat access and low carrying capacity . I'd say 1st gen runners are a bit more truckish seeing as I can still take the top off and have a "bed", but yes, I refer to my 4Runner as a truck. I don't know what an SUV is, but I hope I never own one.

 

Yep mine is called a truck, the Wifeys car is a car.

 

mine is just the runner when i refer to it

 

Truck: Bed.

I don't call SUVs trucks, I call them whatever the vehicles name is. It sounds stupid to call an SUV a truck when it's not a truck.

 

quote from Chunk aka (The Goonies) "ORV.....Bullet Holes the size of Motza Balls" Guess we might call 'em " Off Road Vehicles"

 

Mine's a truck (98). Even Toyota classified the 4runner as a TRUCK until the 4th gen launched. 4th gens are classified as SUV, at least by Toyota.

 

i think 1st gens are trucks and the rest are suvs. I say this because the 1st gen is basically a one peice truck and has a physical bed in the rear like real trucks do. The rest of the generations are just suvs as they have a one peice roof with 4 doors/ and are made more for passenger purposes as opposed to 1st gens.
Trucks = body on frame construction w/ bed
SUVS = body on frame construction w/o bed
Crossovers = unibody