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Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck (jalopnik.com)

submitted 6 months ago by _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Per the legal US definition, almost every SUV is a "light truck", including my 1999 Subaru Forester...

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 12 points 6 months ago (17 children)

iirc, that is bc your Forester is an SUV that uses a truck chassis underneath, whereas the otherwise extremely similar Crosstrek uses the Impreza chassis so is more of a high "car". But that could change over the years and I'm not really a car person so don't quote me or anything!:-P

[–] commandar@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

His Forrester is built on a Legacy chassis; it's a four door sedan with a little lift and a bigger body shell on top.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the correction. I see now, it's a larger car chassis - so as @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, that's not a "truck", light or otherwise, at all!?

I did a search and found this article suggesting that it is a historical (hehe, some might say... "legacy", eh?:-P) naming scheme, based on fuel economy:

The U.S. government uses light-duty trucking as a vehicle class for the regulation of fuel economy by enforcing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The light-duty truck class includes pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), vans, and minivans.

Since light-duty trucks are typically used for utility purposes rather than personal use, they have lower standards for fuel economy than cars do.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

nope, not a truck in any sense of the word. granted I use it like one, lol, but it is very much a light passenger car chassis.

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