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by bserge 2034 days ago
Google it, heh.

The way I learned it, a "car" is any roofed 4+ wheeled vehicle up to van and SUV size (yeah, more Americanisms). Pickup trucks and larger are "trucks".

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Is the Reliant Robin not a car then?
Ha, you got me!
It's not a car. Legally anyway.
Same goes for a G-Wiz, which is a quadracycle - the same category as an all terrain quad bike.
It's a motortricycle!
Even this exemplifies bad translations between two dialects of English. To me a van is a Ford Transit, but it sounds like to you a van is a Ford Galaxy (which I'd see as a "people carrier")
What if Google is the one that requires CAPTCHA? Bingit?