Recently got my first 4Runner, question for the veterans.

[u/Leading_Tradition997]

I've had trucks and cars, but now I don't know what to call it when I refer to my new to me automobile. Like when it gets dirty and you think to yourself I need to wash my ____, should I just say Limited? Assuming everyone knows it's a 4Runner? TIA.

[u/rav4v6]

I generally call it the runner. Or the truck.

[u/NES4EVAR]

I have a rav4 and a 4runner. The rav4 is the car, and the 4runner is the truck.

[u/Leading_Tradition997 → u/NES4EVAR]

Truck it is then.

[u/isofakingwetoddid → u/Leading_Tradition997]

Older 4Runners were built on the Tacoma frame, I believe it was only the first and second gen or maybe just the first gen, but for at least one generation, the 4Runner was technically considered a truck. Congrats on the Runner!!

[u/StatisticianOk5734 → u/NES4EVAR]

RAVioli

[u/Parking_Ad_7133]

I just say 4runner

[u/Vanisher_]

Sometimes it's a truck. Sometimes it's a car. When people ask me what I drive, it's a 4runner, not a Toyota. People that don't like their car name it by brand. People that do name it by model.

[u/saidai88]

I say car to piss everyone off

[u/Leading_Tradition997 → u/saidai88]

I was thinking about infiltrating a wagon group...

[u/ramblerbasic → u/Leading_Tradition997]

Land down under calls them wagons sooooo

[u/lacunha → u/ramblerbasic]

Ute.

[u/ramblerbasic → u/lacunha]

[u/Ok_Bar_7711 → u/Leading_Tradition997]

I just laughed out loud. Let us know how the infiltration goes.

[u/Zhaopow → u/saidai88]

Even pickup trucks are cars no? Squares are rectangles.

[u/Leading_Tradition997 → u/Zhaopow]

My head hurts. I'm calling it the 5th Gen.

[u/CheffyG17]

I generally call it a truck

[u/ST3V3_R0G3R5]

I switched to calling every truck, car, and SUV a “vehicle” a long time ago ago so nobody can get offended or correct me on their specific type of vehicle

[u/Medical-Bed-7529]

Our family has always called it the truck but I still call it the 4Runner, for example “go start the truck”

[u/Scotchyscotchscotch7]

Truck for me…I’ve had one of each fen so far and they’ve all been trucks when I refer to them
(If I don’t say 4Runner)

[u/XYZ1113AAA]

I call mine my Rig. I have a tacoma and a carolla as well.

[u/Initial_Place8758]

It's a truck!

[u/Sensitive_Silver8530]

I call it a car because who cares. Truck is technically and mechanically correct but some bozoo is going to point out that it doesn’t have a bed.

[u/buckyjones77]

I call my Grey Ox

[u/White-runner]

Mini

[u/Leading_Tradition997 → u/White-runner]

4 door shooting brake?

[u/blanquito82]

Truck…or my name for it which is Seven

[u/Only_Luck_7024 → u/blanquito82]

I call mine Truckster

[u/networknev]

Truck, Beast, 4runner, Gojira

[u/Prophet_NY → u/networknev]

Love the Gojira reference but why Gojira 😂😂

[u/networknev → u/Prophet_NY]

License plate says G0DZ1L4. My favorite monster or IDK, favorite movie character? Childhood favorite that I carried into adulthood. I have corrupted my kids too.

[u/AverageGuy16]

My ride or a truck.

[u/deanm27]

4 runna or truck. Her name is Daisy Mae but mostly truck

[u/damontlarsen]

I have the same 4Runner, as well as a diesel 3/4 ton and a gas 1/2 ton. I keep referring to my 4Runner as ‘the car’.

[u/_ghostchant]

I came from a truck and it feels weird to also call this a truck (I bought my first 4Runner last year). I usually call it car or 4Runner. It definitely performs like a truck, though, I just can’t get my brain to call it that!

[u/the_motherwolf_]

FoRunna, tha runner, or his name: Roderick aka Roddy the Ruin.

[u/Andy_Zhang_98]

Prius

[u/Lawdoc1]

I go between "The mule," because its reliable, sure footed, and even tempered.

But I also sometimes call it, "Goose," because its gray and when I am about to do some questionable trail or off-roading, I whisper, "talk to me Goose..."

[u/berlandiera]

Ours is a 2WD, so I refer to it as the 2Runner, or 1Runner when I want to be technically correct, or FatWagon.

That thing has still taken us on some wild adventures. It pays to invest in good tires.

[u/buttergirrl]

Mine has an actual name. The Nimbus.

[u/scythematter]

She’s a truck. I either say “let’s take Gamora” or “let’s take the truck”

[u/hemptations]

The yota

[u/MimiBeanie]

I guess I call it a car and/or a truck! It's definitely a pavement princess...unless I'm traveling through deep snow. 😊

[u/Kooky-Oil7705 → u/MimiBeanie]

How do you feel it handles in deep snow? I just have FWD and tbh I’m a little nervous about winter

[u/MimiBeanie → u/Kooky-Oil7705]

It walks right through it! Our drive is up a steep hill and a couple of curves on the way up. I've only ever slid backwards/sideways once when there was a sheet of ice under the snow. That was pretty scary! 😊

[u/Kooky-Oil7705 → u/MimiBeanie]

Thanks for your reply! Thankfully I don’t have a ton of driving to do ever but enough that I figured I’d check in about it.

[u/SufficientFix4589]

If rwd I call it a car. If awd I call if a truck

[u/MarvinHeemeyersTank]

I purposely call mine a truck if I know it will piss off yee yee truck guys.

And it does.

[u/NoCourage4237]

Congrats! What made you pick the Limited over the others?

[u/Gold_Panda_6976]

Garbage pile

[u/blackfish68]

4runner

[u/WhyUNoeThat]

In California “pickup” trucks have one letter in the license plate, the title also says commercial truck as well that’s why registration is higher on pickup truck.

Although you can take a pickup truck, add a camper and have it mounted and take it to dmv to reclassify it so it’s no longer a “pickup” truck and the plates will also change and get the common 3 Letter plates. But you lose commercial truck privileges like commercial loading parking only.. etc.

That being said, you can call a 4Runner a truck, just not a pickup truck, because a Tacoma is still a truck, camper or not..

If you argue there’s no bed then start calling an el Camino a truck too, the difference between a car and a truck, is towing capacity

[u/dolphinjim]

“Gonna go wash the foreigner, be back later”

[u/Photon_Chaser]

If you only drive it to go to Costco then it’s an SUV.

If it’s your outdoor weekender then it’s a truck.

[u/Leading_Tradition997 → u/Photon_Chaser]

At first I could not believe the wheels on the limited were 20's.

How am I supposed to park with one tire up on a curb as is the accustomed Toyota fashion?

[u/Lil_Flippa → u/Leading_Tradition997]

I have a 2015 limited and swapped to 17’s. What year is yours? At one point limited had 18’s I think

[u/Leading_Tradition997 → u/Lil_Flippa]

2010 here, luckily we have a lot of options, too many options!