Is "wheelbase" relative or fixed?
Trying to understand the meaning of the term "short wheelbase vehicle". Looked all over the 'net and can't seem to find an answer. I know that wheelbase itself is the distance from front-to-back w...
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wilber1 wrote:
If a manufacturer makes a model with two different lengths, one is short and the other is long.
Pretty much sums it up. In terms of a TV pretty much everything but a pickup will have a short WB, the exception possibly being the excursion and suburban.
My truck has a 160.5" wheelbase, which I consider long and the short-bed version is 140.5". My dad's '97 K2500 burb is 131.5", so while long for a SUV it's still shorter than a QC SB Dodge. The Excursion comes in at 137.5", and a reg cab Dodge is also 140.5".
