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How should the vehicle on the inside of the back cover be classified? As a Car or Truck?
It is called by both names in the ad. :confused: :confused: :confused:
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Gator:
I think that's a good question. At least it is if you consider you and I don't know the answer. Unless, of course, you're simply asking a rhetorical question.
Notice that in the 'credit' for the photo it says, "Factory photo of Light Delivery Truck." That leads me to believe it's a 'truck.'
Further, I suppose another more technical way to decide if it's a 'truck' or a 'car' is to know what the chassis is. That's based on my presumption the chassis / frame for the 'truck' would be 'heavier' than for the 'car.'
Who knows.....
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gator, I'd say truck, as it appears to be designed to carry goods, rather than passengers... looks like a forerunner of the canopy express...  epi
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Why does the original Chevy ad call it a car? epi, using your defination a school/city bus would be a car? LOL
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It's a truck. Commercial vehicles are sometimes called cars, especially if it is used buy a hotel or resort.
Maybe seats can be added to the bed.
Lot's of people around here call SUV's cars.
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So a depot hack is a ? LOL
It just surprised me to see the word 'car' used in the original ad by Chevrolet to describe the vehicle which I had always called a truck.
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The depot hack is is an early name for a station wagon and station wagons, when not on truck chassis such as Suburbans, are considered cars.
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gator, well, along those lines, a bus shore ain't a truck either, now is it?..  I think the ad was written at a time when trucks were all very large...and cars weren't...so they slipped up and wrote "car," because, in their mind, it was car-sized... epi
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rgwiz, I agree with you...I refer to suv's on truck chassis as trucks, but often when I do, I get a :confused:  from people that just see them as BIG cars... epi
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Isn't it amazing what a ka-jillion dollars spent on advertising can do?!?!?!?
Calling an SUV, whether a Suburban, Tahoe or Blazer a 'car' is about as crazy as calling a ord/F a Chevy.
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Right. Even though my answer was pritty lame. I think most folks hate the idea of riding in a truck. 'Specially when the girls are all dressed up.
But, they continue to buy SUV's. Maybe 'cause the guys want rear wheel drive and 8 cylinders!
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So a Depot Hack is?...Going to the market it's a truck, going to pick up vacationers it's a car.
Just like a SUV...
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RG,
I certainly didn't mean to indicate your 'answer was lame.' I was simply suggesting a whole bunch of advertising money seems to have 'convinced' the American public that SUV's are cars and not trucks.
I think your post just above this one is absolutely right on. It's one of those 'perception' kinda things.
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Since the insurance companies classify SUV's as trucks the premium is lower...so you guys with the SUV's better hope the insurance companies don't start calling them cars....LOL
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No 42bill. I am the one that thinks it's lame. I just can't get to the bottom of this one. Yeah they are trucks, but people want to use them as cars...I guess????????????
Who knows, who cares...see what ya started Gator!
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In states that have weight fees as part of the yearly license fees, such as California, you wouldn't want a passenger vehicle to be classified as a truck. The stupid thing is that no matter how heavy a motorhome is, it is not considered a truck for licensing.
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What is it then? A very large car? LOL
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No, a home with a motor...and wheels.
Hear we go again!!!!
I don't think motorhomes are ment to have passengers, only residents...
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Can't resist asking;
If a person is living in their car it would then be a motorhome or a RV?
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If they are living alone a motor home. Sharing with woman an RV :love: :love:  
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Na...the person living in the car is homeless and it may not be his car...
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Really quite a meaningful discussion here, Don't any of you guys have a Sedan Delivery or a carryall you should be working on?
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This would be the pot calling the kettle black MM?
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