Since you mention all these, several of them look pretty dubious on the English side.

Autocar looks (a) unidiomatic, and (b) redundant -- an auto is a car, a car is an auto, so that would be like Autowagen in German.

Haul truck looks (a) unidiomatic, (b) redundant -- most trucks are used for hauling, and (c) like a possible mistranslation -- at least, it would not be synonymous with either commercial or utility vehicle.

If either of those is used in some particular region (evidently not AE), they should be marked; otherwise, they should be deleted.

In fact, commercial and utility are significantly different in meaning; if one of those is more correct, the other may need to be deleted.

Commercial auto may be wrong if 'vehicle' is right, since 'auto' includes only cars, not vans, buses, trucks, tractors ...

Motorcar is old-fashioned or quaint in AE, but it may still be in use in BE; however, either way, a marking would probably be helpful.

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u·til·i·ty ve·hi·cle (plural u·til·i·ty ve·hi·cles)
noun
Definition:
vehicles
Same as sport-utility vehicle

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commercial vehicle
— n
a vehicle for carrying goods or (less commonly) passengers

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Main Entry: commercial vehicle
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a motor vehicle used for public transportation or cargo transportation

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Thanks, hm -- us, for your contribution which is - as usual - highly valuable. Although it was not my intention to question some of the entries here is what I found:

"utility vehicle": I only found references to SUV, which is not a "Nutzfahrzeug", imo.

"commercial vehicle": It seems to be the word of choice for "Nutzfahrzeug", imo.

hm--us schrieb "a car is an auto":
Was mit der Bedeutung von car als (Aufzugs)Kabine oder eines (Eisenbahn)Waggons?


Nudelholz:
Was ist mit "utility vehicle - das Gebrauchsfahrzeug"; und was ist "unseren" utes hier down under (http://www.google.co.nz/images?hl=en&q=utes+f...) ?

Mein Augenmerk liegt auf Kfz und Nfz, das Gebrauchsfahrzeug will ich ja gar nicht anfassen und auch die ganzen Bedeutungen von "car" als Kabine, Waggon usw. sind hier gar nicht angesprochen.

Es geht rein um Nutzfahrzeuge und Kraftfahrzeuge und deren richtige Übersetzungen. Hm -- us hat aufgezeigt, dass die genannten Wortpaare nicht (mehr) passend sind.

I don't think we have to worry about elevator cars or train cars in the context of Kfz and Nfz, do we?

Ralf, I confess I too thought of your recent thread on the NZ sense of 'utility vehicle,' but when I searched for those terms using the forum search, it didn't come up. Maybe you can locate it and post a link?

related discussion: ute [coll.] - das Gebrauchsfahrzeug, der Lief...

Maybe this one?

Gracias. (-:

hm--us: Mit dem "Rest" bin ich ja einverstanden; du weisst dooch: Nur das "Negative" wird angesprochen.

Nudelholz: utility vehicle zeigt doch, dass es "rein" um Nutzfahrzeuge dann nicht gehen kann; es gibt eben keine "reinen" Uebersetzungen.

Arn't the LEO pairings

"PKW - automobile"
"Kfz - motorcar"

wrong, because

a) an automobile is a Kfz, i.e. comprises PKW and LKW
b) a motorcar in BE is a Pkw, i.e. excludes LKW?

Autocar isn't redundant, as a car used to mean a carriage (as in "horse and...") before "auto" was added to mean that this car was an automatic one, i.e. didn't need a horse. It is, however, archaic:
New SOED: autocar n. (arch.) = AUTOMOBILE n. L19.

Fascinating.

But has anyone ever come across it in an actual text that's still read in the modern day? Is there any reason for it to be in LEO at all, as compared to the kind of archaic words that do often show up in contexts such as poetry or novels?

I have the feeling it probably enjoyed a very brief life as a word, in the earliest days of the automobile, and can now be safely laid to rest along with the vast majority of archaic words that are not listed in LEO.

From my BE perspective, I agree that "autocar" is doubtful. And even in BE, "motorcar" (more commonly written as two words, IMO: "motor car") is rapidly becoming "old-fashioned or quaint" (#1).

EDIT: I see that LEO doesn't currently have a general entry for "motor car" as two words: Dictionary: motor car

However, it is listed as one word (see #1) and as a hyphenated compound: Dictionary: motor-car

www.autocar.co.uk

@11 & 12: Autocar is nevertheless the title of one of Britain's foremost motoring magazines, even though it is dated.

#11 No, I think it's just a historical use these days. It's mentioned in the 1911 encyclopaedia http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Motor_Vehicles There is a modern magazine http://www.autocar.co.uk/ established in the days when the word was still used, but it doesn't appear otherwise.

#13: Autocar is nevertheless the title of one of Britain's foremost motoring magazines, even though it is dated.

That's a proper noun, though, and a red herring, IMO.

The LEO pairings

"PKW - automobile"
"Kfz - motorcar"

should be corrected, because

a) an automobile is a Kfz, i.e. comprises PKW and LKW
b) a motorcar in BE is a Pkw, i.e. excludes LKW