• commandar@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      Thanks for the correction. I see now, it’s a larger car chassis - so as @[email protected] 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.