i am sure that you will get a more accurate result with this poll

 

It's a Jeep.

Not a car bec. no trunk.

Not a truck bec. no outside bed.

 

In this essence, every SUV or station wagon out there would be considered a "Jeep". :doh:

 

when you put it like that, it's got to be a Jeep

 

If you have a CJ in the driveway as well, the Patriot becomes a car. However if you have multiple Jeep brand vehicles, the conversation is "Should we take the Jeepster or the Compass?" or "Will this fit in the Scrambler or do we need the J-10?"

 

That's about how conversation is around the house here. It's "What're we taking, the Patriot or the Commander?" If the ZJ weren't for sale, that'd be thrown into the mix as well. Heh.

 

My Pat earned the term "Jeep" as far as I'm concerned. It has been everything that a true Jeep would represent to me. It's a tough lil bugger, can climb into out of the way spots, like this beautiful dirt trail to a hidden pond we have out here. Drive right down to the water's edge so that over the hood all we see is water and geese and ducks. Back right up that dirt path and head home. Priceless!

 

None of the above. Station wagon.

 

OUCH!

you seriously say "let's take the station wagon tonight"?

 

Other SUV's are station wagons.

A Jeep is a Jeep.

 

Anyone look at their title. Im in Wisconsin and while I am with the majority in calling it the "Jeep" my title calls it a sports van. Though those went out in the 70's. Oh well Jeep it is.

 

Nah. Usually refer to it by the color. Like, let's take the silver one. Makes it easier on the automotivally challenged.

 

Let's get this straight. The only reason the modern SUV exists at all is because of the success of the Willys Utility Wagon and it's direct descendant the Wagoneer. Whether you have a Bronco, Blazer, Durango, Navigator, X-terra, 4Runner, Path finder, Passport or any other 21st century SUV They are all inspired by, and/or descendants of, the Willys Wagon. Few are direct descendants most are just wannabees, but if you love your SUV, thank Willys Overland. Jeep kept making taller 4 wheel drive station wagons until the world finally realized in the 1980's that this was the type of vehicle we all really wanted to drive.

FYI Chevy, the original Suburban was just a giant car on a 4x2 truck chassis. Not an SUV.

 

car, truck, suv, yadayada whatever. We all knows Jeeps are a class of their own, whose with me!

 

I totally agree with you there, that's why I had to have a Jeep and not just a SUV that are basically copies or want-to-be's.

 

I am with eng3ine.

A jeep is a jeep is a jeep and is in a class of its own.

 

we call ours the POS

 

Ok, we settle this at our house by using color, let's take the 'brown car' which happens to be an S10 pickup, or the 'red car' which was a VW New Beetle.

A previous poster asked what do you say if you're a two (or more...) Jeep family? That should be also easy enough--"let's take the new one, let's take the small one, let's take the 4x4, etc."

Here's a whole scenerio on "what is a Jeep?" While trying to license my military jeep--it's pretty much original--not restored, but authentic Korean War model. (I usually tell folks that I brought it back from the War in my hold baggage...)

Well, anyway, going to the CA DMV is never a pleasant experience, and always a challenge, but now I have a vehicle that's never been registered in CA, the title I got (from the widow of my friend who was restoring this...) was a "green slip" from Oregon, last registered 1959. In CA, you'd need to show a "non-operational" status with the address/facility where the vehicle was stored and swear that it hadn't been "wheels down" on a public roadway. So my "personal cop" offered to sign off on the peace officer inspection slip, not fully knowing what the vehicle requirements were for transferred military vehicles in 1949. But we decided to chance it.

Things were going smoothly at the DMV, I successfully answered all those statements requiring raising my right hand, until they asked that final question, "what type of vehicle is it: car, truck, etc. "

I said, "neither, it's a Jeep!" I don't want her to think it is a truck, 'cause in CA, trucks have higher license fees due to the 'tonnage' requairement.
(Although the military nomenclature states, "Truck, utility, 1/4 ton, 4x4, M38")

"OK," she says, "let's assume it's a car."

"As you wish", I says, not really agreeing, but you do not deliberatly anger these folks!

"OK" she asks, "is it a coupe, sedan or station wagan?"

I said, "neither--its a jeep!"

"OK" she says, "let's call it a sedan. How many doors?"

I say, "it's a jeep--no doors!"

"How do you get in?" she asks. By now, I'm figuring this person as never seen an open jeep before in her life, and don't want to anger her, 'cause it is She (who must be obeyed...) who stands in the way of the license plate and registration I so dearly need.

Finally, a co-worker/friend of hers walks by, after overhearing our verbal exchange and says, "just show it as a two door. You don't need any more grief in filling this on the computer!" (WOW! they're 'afraid' of the computer--made my old IBM employee heart swell!)

So, my Jeep--a "real, original Jeep" is a 2 door sedan as far as CA is concerned!

 

We have two Jeeps in the family: "Our Jeep", 98 XJ; "Her Jeep", 03 WJ.

 

My family always just called the '88 Cherokee the Jeep. Are we taking the Jeep or the van? The Jeep or the Pilot? Now that I have my own and it's just me, I'd only be talking to myself!

 

Nothing wrong with talking to yourself!

 

JEEP all the way

 

We call it a JEEP but then again our other car is a neon, so compared to that our FDII really is a real JEEP. I can certainly see the dilemma for those that have a wrangler or commander in addition to the Pat though. Glad it is simple at our house.

I imagine if I had a Rubicon, the Pat just might become a car.

 

The Patriot was "the car" of our house. The Wrangler was "the jeep", and the 2500HD was "the truck". Pretty descriptive labeling, from the family that nicknamed our son "boy".

 

my title and insurance list it as a wagon.

I call it a jeep.

 

It's funny how this works. We call our Pat "The Jeep"

But we call our Dodge Charger "The Charger"... not "The Dodge"

Why is that?

Kinda wierd.

 

I always refer to it as the Jeep. It just doesn't feel right any other way.

NP

 

There is certain problem in my country with this issue. Here, we call all 4x4's a "Jeep" (especially real off-roaders and not some urban SUV's), while real Jeeps are not that often to see (90% of Jeeps in Montenegro are 1990-2002 Grand Cherokees). I was yesterday to a bank submitting papers for (hopefully) my Patriot (after banks approval of loan) and it took me 5 minutes to explain to them that I am not talking about "a Jeep", but about "the Jeep". Later on, I went to see some winter tires, and again... 5 minutes explaining that I am talking about "the Jeep". With friends... same story. It usually goes like this:
- Hey, I am buying new car!
- What car?
- Jeep, Jeep Patriot.
- Which Jeep?
- Jeep's Jeep!
- Huh?
- Heard of Jeep? US company that produces 4x4s?
- Well yes, sure!
- That JEEP!!!!
- Ah, I C!

So, we are going to call it definitely "Jeep"

 

It's anything and everything.....EXCEPT A TRUCK!

 

Mine is called a truck quite frequently by my friends and myself. I didn't have to prompt it, either. They just know. A Jeep is more of a Truck than a Car.

"Hey, move your truck so I can get out."

"Lets take the trucks out 4x4ing."

"You want to take your truck or my truck?"

And of course, it does get called the Jeep when being specified within the rest of the vehicles we take out. GMC 1500 is 'The GMC', Patriot is 'The Jeep', Cherokee is 'The Cherokee'.

So, it is a Truck.