Talk:Van

message: Article says: "The word van is a shortened version of the word caravan which originally meant a covered vehicle."  Very interesting.
So now I'm wondering whether the other end of the word became 'car' for automobile.  Does anyone have a great grandmother born around 1902 to ask? -- Parsiferon 00:58, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "car" comes from the Old French language "carre" of Celtic origin. The "motorcar" or "automobile" only arrived in the 1890s. Before that road trasport used horses as motive power.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 12:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  CARavan = origin of the word 'car'? 

message: Are we quite sure there's nothing that would be called a van that might have six wheels?? --JohnOwens 11:36 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
:Who's counting? The page says 'generally' because I am sure there are also 3 wheeled ones as well as 6 wheeled :-) —the preceding unsigned comment is by Gingerpig2000 (talk • contribs) 
::there were definately 3 wheeled vans (see pic). Not sure about a 6 wheeler. It partly depends on when you think van ends and truck/lorry begins. Plugwash 02:31, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There certainly have been six-wheeled vans, notably the Citroen CX-derived FGV used for newspaper distribution by the International Herald Tribune.  I've also seen a six-wheeled Citroen XM-based van, parked outside a Citroen specialist garage in South Woodford in the latter half on the 1990s. Mr Larrington (talk) 10:24, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  More than 4 wheels? 

message: Removed the bit about australia, simply isnt true.
: I have added a new section on Australia. The above isn't signed or dated, and I couldn't see anything about Australia in the revision history, so I don't know what was deleted. --Bass hound 08:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia 

message: Van (road vehicle) → Van – Since Van almost always means the vehicle, and what 99% of the ambiguous uses of Van on Wikipedia are talking about (see Van (disambiguation):What links here) , then it should be the main article. This has been discussed briefly on Talk:Van (disambiguation). Currenlty, Van redirects to Van (disambiguation) which is bad convention, and Van (vehicle) points to Van (road vehicle), and "(road vehicle)" is bad convention, too.
I will be more than happy to fix the links from "Van (road vehicle)" to "Van" with a box or popup-assisted thingy. I'll then put in a request to delete "(vehicle)" and "(road vehicle)" articles. —Camaro96 06:22, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
* Support Common Usage. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: History of Requested move

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
* Support Common Usage. --Philip Baird Shearer 11:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Voting

message: *Van (disambiguation) has a number of important articles (Van, Turkey, Lake Van, Van Province, vanguard, Vanir, van (Dutch), boxcar and caboose) in it that may be linked to from other articles. I suggest that the dab page be moved to van instead: disambiguation is more important when there are a number of serious contenders for the page. --Gareth Hughes 18:16, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Moved. WhiteNight T | @ | C 01:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Result

message: The article doesn't make it clear that the word van here in the UK never refers to a passenger vehicle such as a people-carrier. It says we generally refer to minivans as people-carriers or MPVs, but it doesn't say we wouldn't call them vans. We would also never call a minibus a van. 
Even if a few people have picked up on the American usage, I think it would be fair to at least say 'In British English, the term van isn't usually applied to passenger vehicles, rather it is restricted to vehicles that carry goods.'--Jcvamp 19:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom 

message: I have moved the following from the prior 'Criticism' section because it doesn't actually say anything about, uh, Vans.  If someone can provide average van heights and verify the other vehicle info then it could be useful to merge this back into 'Alternatives' (which now has the text about wind resistance due to vehicle height).  --Parsiferon 00:51, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vehicle height info should include ''VAN'' heights 

message: In British English, this now has a similar meaning to the U.S. terms travel trailer or recreational vehicle (RV).
I'd like to see a source for this. - FrancisTyers · 08:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: English

message: I think it is a long enough list to be in its own article and should be removed from here and a link to its own article added. What do you think?
:I wholeheartedly agree. I'm too lazy to doo the split, but I'm not sure it's even necessary. A List of Vans would probably have to be started from scratch anyway and a list isn't needed as part of this article at all. The vans mentioned in the text are relevant examples and more than enough. — Mütze 13:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The vans by manufacturer list 

message: The "alternatives" section is blatant OR and speculation "well, you COULD do this…". I am inclined to remove it unless there is a good reason to keep it. --Sable232 18:14, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say remove it... for one thing, just how 'lately' is the CNG/E85 option available?  I know my '96 had a CNG option... and this section seems to say "Well, you could get a van... or you could by a Toyota Prious.  Or a Safari.  Or, you could buy a Grand Am, and steal a U-Haul trailer"  Ahanix1989 16:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternatives 

message: The intro about the size of a van in British usage seems wrong to me. What about furniture vans, which are very large and bear no relation whatever to the size of passenger cars? APW (talk) 12:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GB English: furniture van 

message: Is the Newbury Comics van really necessary for display in the examples section? It looks to me like advertising for company and there are so many other images available.
The image in question is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NewburyComicsVanHarvardSq.jpg
24.129.235.74 (talk) 23:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  newbury comics 

message: The first Paragraph describes a Box Truck, typified by Uhaul Trucks and local delivery trucks, they are medium-duty cargo carriers with the trailer integrated onto the vehicle. No-one in the US calls that a Van. The second definition is incorrect as well, no-one calls any type of trailer a van.
I work in the Transportaion Industry, please have these terms corrected to avoid confusion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.30.198.158 (talk) 06:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage of term "Van" in the United States. 

message: This is a major city, significant for thousands of years, historic capital of an important ancient kingdom.  It's a little silly to search for van and find a type of sutomobile.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.39.35.50 (talk) 12:11, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Van, Turkey]]

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