JermCool wrote:You silly Brits and your Top Gear-esque lingo.
I'm calling it a Station Wagon and you'll like it!
Top Gear-esque lingo? Errmmm, the presenters are Brits and are using the motoring terms in common use in the UK, I think you have the attribution in the wrong order.
Deacon wrote:Sold as a station wagon in the US
And yeah, you're correct on all counts. A "mobile home" around here, though, generally means a prefab shotgun house that's wheeled into place and generally never moves again. If it actually has wheels on it and is truly designed to be mobile (rather than simply transported from the factory to its final resting place), then it's generally a travel trailer.
Yeah, we have those as well, which we also call mobile homes. Us Brits are quite happy to use the same phrase to describe several things; as to RV's, we do also call them "motor homes" as you mention below. In other words, it's just one huge mess of a language where we rely on the other person to either figure it out for themselves, or politely ask for clarification.
An RV is generally a mobile living space that moves under its own power, a "motor home" to some, from the big versions that are basically luxury buses to the smaller versions riding on a standard heavy-duty truck frame:
That last one looks like it's about the same size as the one my father has, though his driving cab is integrated into the body.
A trailer or caravan that you describe can cover anything from pop-up campers to big fifth-wheel travel trailers:
We usually call those trailer-tents.
Our mobile homes tend to be more the size of the first one, but the appearance of them is usually more like the second one (not counting the rubbish and spare building parts).
