Difference between AUV and SUV

[Walter]

AUV - Asian Utility Vehicle. Vehicles that are not sold in the U.S., Europe or Japan. They do not pass the vehicle safety test of these countries. It's not about seating capacity, fuel consumption, 4x2 or 4x4, etc.

[cyberdoc95]

AUV - Asian Utility Vehicle. Vehicles that are not sold in the U.S., Europe or Japan. They do not pass the vehicle safety test of these countries. It's not about seating capacity, fuel consumption, 4x2 or 4x4, etc.

Is this really how you classify vehicles? By being able to pass or fail an american or European safety standard tests? From what you are saying, since this vehicle fails to these countries' tests, you automatically classify it as an AUV? Not on seating capacity or engine, or other design? Are you classifying KIA SPECTRA(obviously a compact car) then, which failed the safety standard test in the US, as an AUV? Sounds crazy, isn't it?

I'm sorry Walter, but I totally disagree with you. You might describe the vehicle as such but it is not the only DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC. When you classify vehicles, you have to start to define/describe it as what it is (then, what it isn't would follow). But it wouldn't classify a car when you only say what it is not.