Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Cars that are Light Trucks that are Cars

By Peter Tanshanomi May 15, 2014

EH-cars-lighttrucks The topic for this week’s outpouring of crowdsourced triva that we know as Encyclopedia Hoonatica comes to us courtesy of loyal Hooniversalist OA5599*. He requested a listing of all the vehicles that were, in various versions, classified as both cars and light trucks. The regulations that differentiate a passenger car and a light truck are silly and arcane, and derivatives of the same platform/body shell can be either, depending on what driveline it is equipped with and what’s changed to the rear of the B-pillar. Since the regulatory definition between cars and trucks was less stringent and more vague prior to the adoption of modern motor vehicle safety, emissions and fuel economy regulations, let’s limit the list to vehicles built after 1967 (when the first U.S. safety standards went into effect). Remember your Encyclopedic etiquette: Read through the existing posts first, don’t post duplicates, and a photo of your example is always a nice touch (scale jumbo photos down a reasonable size through the magic of HTML). DIFFICULTY: Easy Peasy Chedder-cheesy. (If you can’t come up with anything more obscure, there are about eleventy-billion Aussie and South African utes to be mined.) Photo Credits: Manufacturer press photos, Wikipedia, and stationwagonfinder.com *I think. His email address is different from his IDC handle, so I am going from memory here. Apologies to two of you if I’ve made the wrong assocation.

By Peter Tanshanomi

Tanshanomi is Japanese [単車のみ] for "motorcycle(s) only." Though primarily tasked with creating two-wheel oriented content for Hooniverse, Pete is a lover of all sorts of motorized vehicles.

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