# SUV owners: What do you call your vehicle? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 11, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006 "2013-02-11T19:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/21 "2013-02-11T22:39:26Z")
I have an Escape, which is also what I call it since it has one less syllable than SUV. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/22 "2013-02-12T00:59:11Z")
I say “car.” Also, the question in the poll should say “take” instead of “bring” (unless the speaker lives in a Jiffy Lube). (Sorry, pet peeve.) ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/23 "2013-02-12T01:04:31Z")
n/m ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/24 "2013-02-12T03:54:42Z")
Does my Subaru Outback counts as an SUV? I call it “the car” or “the Subaru.” My wife drives a Hyundai Santa Fe. I call it “the truck” or “the Hyundai.” ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/25 "2013-02-12T04:18:45Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “Bob”. I would think it would have a dog name given how they seem to like to roll over. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/26 "2013-02-12T06:06:08Z")
My Saturn Vue’s name is Vehikles, pronounced like Herakles. It is a car. My '85 Impala was named Meg, after Carcharadon Megalodon, as she was huge, prehistoric, and very dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/27 "2013-02-12T06:06:18Z")
Vee-Hickle! (Sgt. Rizzo, M_A_S\*H) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/28 "2013-02-12T06:28:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Does my Subaru Outback counts as an SUV? I call it “the car” or “the Subaru.” My Subaru Outback is a station wagon. I call it it the Subaru. When I did have an SUV, I called it the Land Rover, because it was a Land Rover. ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/29 "2013-02-12T07:16:38Z")
I’ve always considered and called my Toyota 4Runner a truck. Bought my first one in 1999, sold it and got a 2002, traded that one in for a 2003. 2003 was run over last August by an 18 wheeler and totaled. Bought a 2006 4Runner as a replacement. Love them, obviously…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/30 "2013-02-12T07:38:11Z")
What? No penis option? ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/31 "2013-02-12T10:01:43Z")
I will call him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and stroke his bill and rub his pretty feathers. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/32 "2013-02-12T11:36:47Z")
The Av (Avalanche) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/33 "2013-02-12T12:43:17Z")
Back when we owned one, it was the Isuzu. When being “clever” it was the Road Queen Family Truckster. I always thought of it as a passenger truck. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/34 "2013-02-12T14:22:30Z")
‘Jeep’. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/35 "2013-02-12T15:10:07Z")
> [@FoundWaldo](#): > > A Jeep Wrangler is a jeep. A Jeep Cherokee is not. Yep. I always called my Wranglers “Jeeps”. I now own a Jeep Patriot that I call “my car”. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/36 "2013-02-12T17:43:28Z")
I call the Santa Fe “the truck” but that’s only out of habit. I used to drive a pick-up. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/37 "2013-02-12T18:01:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Yep. I always called my Wranglers “Jeeps”. I now own a Jeep Patriot that I call “my car”. I call my Cherokee the Jeep. I called my Willys CJ2A a jeep. Occasionally I’ll call the Jeep a truck, because that’s pretty much what it is. I agree that a Patriot is a ‘car’. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/38 "2013-02-12T22:41:04Z")
> [@the\_O](#): > > Jeep. This ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/39 "2013-02-13T05:37:41Z")
I got my wife a Ford Explorer. SUV is just too clunky for me. Calling it the Explorer worked for a while. Now I call it the truck more than anything. Back when my step mother had her Wrangler, everyone without exception called it the Jeep. Had some fun times in that. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/40 "2013-02-13T07:20:20Z")
Canyonero. Thanks to the Simpsons, and my buddies who insist on calling it that. It’s a Chevy Tahoe. It’s got a Chevy truck engine, a Chevy truck drivetrain, and a Chevy truck frame; so if it didn’t have the “station wagon” body, it would be a Silverado pickup. It has no video for rear-seat passengers (I had an interesting discussion with the dealer about this, and he finally sourced one that had no rear-seat video), and I’ve taken the back-back seats out so I can carry things. With the exception of myself and three golf buddies and all our clubs, I use it to carry things more than people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006.md?page=3)