4WD or SUV

Makes you wonder of Australian journalists are really using their own material, or just re-hashing what they are fed from overseas. "SUV" is not a term I want to hear over here.

Soon people will be saying - “I think I’ll upgrade my SUV (Patrol cab chassis) fitted with the new Winnebego (motor home), gas (fuel) it up and head on down the Interstate 1 (Pacific highway) for my 4 weeks vacation (holiday)”.

or – “It’s about time I fitted new springs to the Landcruiser Pickup (Ute)”.

or – “My new AUV (Toyota dual cab ute) sure looks ugly but I like the color (no u in colour)”.

It’s only a matter of time and we’ll be driving on the wrong side of the road.

All tongue in cheek ;-)

[Please note: Any/all opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual - me]

The only good thing about SUV is that Scruby will not know what vehicle they are talking about.
EG. You cannot cal a Suburu Forrester a REAL 4wd. so you see its a suv er small urban vehicle.

what the ????is a AUV????????

steve

What does "RAV" stand for - as in Toyota RAV4?

"Recreational Action Vehicle" or something else typically-Toyota inane?

Just as bad as some of these tossers on this website that call their 4x4's "TRUCKS"

I’m postin’ here today
To offer some advice
On the use of our language
Being P C, and being just... nice

Don’t know much about poetry
Don’t know much about prose
Don’t know much about rhyming
So let’s just see, how it all goes

It used to be when I was young
To say FU%$ was was very, very wrong
But now, when here reading recent posts
SUV, has now taken the gong

We swapped Hood for Bonnet
And then Trunk,f or a Boot
We went from Gas to Petrol
Then Pick-Up to Ute

General Purpose Vehicle
Got shortened to GP
Even that was to long
So now, we say JEEP

Toyota’s became TOJO’s
L R became Landie
So we’ve changed all the names
Aren’t we just dandy

But when tit’s he yanks to do it
Goodness gracious me...
They’ve called my precious 4 by
A Goddamn SUV!!!

I always assumed that SUV was another name for "softroaders" and was used to differeniate "real 4WDs" from softroaders

You got love them Yanks - they can come up with something so unrelated to reality in terminology.

When is a 4X4 not a 4X4, not an AWD? When you can MANUALLY select the mode of operation, when its selected by the vehicle 'systems'? How do you tell the which is which some vehciles come as one of more in dfferent trim levels? What happens to the vehicle designation if you retrofit one of the other factory systems for that vehcile - does it suddenly 'change?'

Confusion confusion.......

Lets look at our favourite 'mentors' terms;

SUV = SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLE

So lets break this down;

SPORTS: now most proper 4WD hardy rate the SPORTS rating - most are slower than your avrage 1.5L car. mmmmm no SPORTS in that - a bit off the mark with accuracy

UTILITY: Well some but VERY few are actually UTILITIES. Most are wagons or traytops, not utilities - at least on Oz!. Seems again they missed the majority of the mark again.

VEHICLE: Well how could they get that wrong! Score 1 for accuracy to date!

and the other term PICKUP

Thats what you are looking for at some sleesey bar to satisfy your 'urges'. That sort of activity hardy relates a vehicle, and then only remotely to the vehicles use.

I guess its a bit 'complex' on the other side of the pond & they need to do something to be the centre of the universe (still), so our good freinds the Yanks 'invent' things. Its a real bugger they got it mostly wrong in terminology,

And we dont want to follow blindly in their footsteps - well guess what?? Seems some are well down that path (without even starting to get political at all).

Yes Mr Scrubby now has a real problem, as 4WD=4X4=SUV (in the media's terms). He owns a SUV, & he's been protesting about 4WD's???????

:-))

Dave