I would be willing to bet that a LOT of people on here also own jeeps, but dont really say much about it for fear of retaliation 

I am in that group, but I admit it and don't have a problem with brand/model rivalry, different tools for different tasks is how I look at it. Besides, it's not like any of us have a choice to pick up a brand new sidekick/tracker or even something from suzuki that's equally capable, at least us in the north american markey anyways..... the rest of the world gets the jimny, but consumer reports and GM have made sure that won't ever happen here.

I guess I don't speak to clearly because everyone thought I bought a tractor when I first told them I had bought a Tracker. Now I tell people I own a sidekick and they seem to understand me.

I guess I don't speak to clearly because everyone thought I bought a tractor when I first told them I had bought a Tracker. Now I tell people I own a sidekick and they seem to understand me.

lmao, that's funny too cause that's what my daughter used to say.  and when i first got it she asked what it was i said a tracker(now she is only 4) and she said that's not a tractor, pappy has a tractor, lmao... i had to sit and explain it to her   i think she told her mother(we're seperated) that i got a tractor too

I've called mine a Jeep before.... to me it's more of a "type of vehicle" rather than a brand, even though I am wrong, it's just a habbit, and I can quit whenever I want.

That's hilarious Milk, my son refuses to call it anything but "his" monster truck. He's 3 and loves it. If I call it a tracker he corrects me and tells me to only call it a monster truck
LMAO

I guess I don't speak to clearly because everyone thought I bought a tractor when I first told them I had bought a Tracker. Now I tell people I own a sidekick and they seem to understand me.

Thats what I have to do.
 

The way I understand it, the word Jeep
comes from the military usage of the WWII
style 4x4 GP vehicles, but the GIs called
them jeep, the name carried over to a
civilian line of 4x4s known as Jeep, that was
bought by AMC, and then be Chrysler, and now
by Daimler, parent corp of Mercedes.

Weren't older Suzuki's called LJ's ?
I thought that was a Little Jeep designation ?

Jeep is really a generic term that was taken
into a brand line, kind of like that thing you
blow your nose with ........... Everybody calls
it a Kleenex

The way I understand it, the word Jeep
comes from the military usage of the WWII
style 4x4 GP vehicles, but the GIs called
them jeep, the name carried over to a
civilian line of 4x4s known as Jeep, that was
bought by AMC, and then be Chrysler, and now
by Daimler, parent corp of Mercedes.

Weren't older Suzuki's called LJ's ?
I thought that was a Little Jeep designation ?

Jeep is really a generic term that was taken
into a brand line, kind of like that thing you
blow your nose with ........... Everybody calls
it a Kleenex

yeah kinda makes sense when you sit and think about it....

I guess I don't speak to clearly because everyone thought I bought a tractor when I first told them I had bought a Tracker. Now I tell people I own a sidekick and they seem to understand me.

One of my nephews whne he first used to talk always said Uncle Kurt...Tractor. Of course, I was usually on a forklift when he saw me. But, at least he knew it wasn't a car. 

In Brazil the CJs sort of started a branch of vehicles so now all small SUV are called "Jipes"..
on my vitara's document you can read under the vehicle tipe...   jipe
My document is actually funny on it you can also read that it can transport five people ant that it has a horsepower 00cv ...it happens : )
I call mine a jipe and so everyone does...I think the CJ was one of a kind and created a new kind of vehicles that's all...
By the laws definition to be a jipe it has to have four wheel drive and a low range box, and jipes can use a diesel engine( cars can't it has to be either a jipe or a truck and so on), it has no size limitation... so the 110 defender are jipes and so on...
                             Gui

I guess I don't speak to clearly because everyone thought I bought a tractor when I first told them I had bought a Tracker. Now I tell people I own a sidekick and they seem to understand me.

I had that happen to me in an auto parts store of all places... I asked for a wheel bearing for my Tracker and the guy behind the counter said "we don't carry tractor parts here, you might want to try tractor supply co..." LOL!

My 2 year old son loves both my Tracker and our lawn tractor.  He can distinguish between the 2 words and know what each is.

one of my friends said his dads friend called his samurai an "ISUZU"  . Kindof funny I thought. they mustve related it to the boxy yet much larger trooper . Yeah, its kindof funny that people think that just because it has a removable soft top that it is the poorly engineered and manuafactured disaster known as the Jeep AKA "Heep"

Tissue,Kleenex.   Suzuki, Jeep. 

If you look at the whole jeep line, they had a pickup and a grand wagoneer etc. I like to think of the jeepy looking things whether it a willys, samurai, sidekick, old toyota (the jeepy looking one), or any other jeepy looking  vehicle as a jeep. Maybe even, in this case, the little jeep. It's simpler and if referred too as a jeep, it takes only one syllable. Ha ha!

In most cases, if someone calls it a jeep, they don't mean it as an insult or a compliment. Therefore I take it as neither, just what it is. Your friend is just trying to give you a hard time. I would let it go in one ear and out the other.

I am in that group, but I admit it and don't have a problem with brand/model rivalry, different tools for different tasks is how I look at it.

I have no problem with Jeep / Toyota / Bronco / Whatever - I have a Sami 'cause 1) I'm a starving student, so the Samurai is much more "affordable".  2) I lean towards Japanese engineering.