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sport utility vehicle

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sport utility vehicle, sports utility vehicle
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Chiefly US a high-powered car with four-wheel drive, originally designed for off-road use Sometimes shortened to sport utility sports utility Abbreviation SUV
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Noun1.sport utility vehicle - a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassissport utility vehicle - a high-performance four-wheel drive car built on a truck chassis
S.U.V., sport utility, SUV
auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
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sport utility vehicle
n → Sport-utility-Fahrzeug nt, → Geländewagen m
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Byline: By Steve Hughes As an increasing number of so-called Sport Utility Vehicles are to be found parked outside schools nationwide, a parenting magazine has put them to the test.
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According to the police, a 42-year-old man from Kobe found his locked sport utility vehicle stolen from the lot at about 9:30 p.
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The study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that when pickups or sport utility vehicles strike cars on the side, there are 27 deaths in cars for each fatality in a pickup or sport utility.
AUTOS NO MATCH IN CRASHES WITH PICKUPS, SPORT VEHICLES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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