# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/41 "2013-02-13T15:31:24Z")
My husband’s daily driver is a 4WD Samurai. I call it the little car, or the Pazuki. Technically it’s a “jeep” but I don’t call it that because it’s not a Jeep. When I had a big Blazer it was the truck or the Blazer. When I had an Isuzu Trooper I called her Suzy. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/42 "2013-02-16T21:18:20Z")
Honda CR-V owner here, and while I’ve driven in some sick conditions and areas off-roading with it, it’s still a “car” to me. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/43 "2013-02-18T06:03:47Z")
We call the vehicle a RAV. But sometimes I do call it “your car” ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/44 "2013-02-18T06:18:47Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > I have an Escape, which is also what I call it since it has one less syllable than SUV. We have one, too, and that’s what we call it in order to distinguish it from the Sentra. I figure if it doesn’t have a bed, it’s a car, no matter what you haul in it. When we had a Jeep Cherokee, we’d generally call it “the Cherokee” because it wasn’t a **Jeep** jeep. I wouldn’t call the Escape a jeep because, despite its 4WD and general rugged aspirations, a mere 6 years of weekly off-road abuse broke its tie-rod ends. Sissy. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/45 "2013-02-18T11:48:42Z")
I call my Grand Cherokee “Rory” ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/46 "2013-02-18T15:43:23Z")
Calling a crossover a truck just seems kind of sad, like telling the 3rd string quarterback he’s a sports star. I love my crossover but it is not, nor would I want it to be, a truck. A better name for these types of vehicles would be LUVs; limited utility vehicles. ---
**Author:** ![IceQube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@IceQube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IceQube)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/47 "2013-02-18T15:57:40Z")
Motherfucker. When it doesn’t start. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006/48 "2013-02-18T16:13:49Z")
“Pepper.” I can’t be the only one since it’s actually named after a kind of pepper. Thing is, to me that name is appropriate because of its spunk, but who the heck’s gonna call their SUV “Spunk”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suv-owners-what-do-you-call-your-vehicle/650006.md?page=2)