It was actually an all-purpose vehicle.

We've all seen these ads for all-purpose vehicles on TV, climbing mountains and fording rivers.

For users, it is a much leaner model, focused almost entirely on searching, rather than the complex, all-purpose vehicle of Go's previous design.

She recalled the boxy station wagons her father used to own, and compared them uneasily to the all-purpose vehicles sold now that look, she said, "like spaceships."

As we stood at attention facing the two all-purpose vehicles that stood beside our hole, our dress was hardly what could be called regulation.

Another twenty minutes later Oberst von Lindenau drove up in his all-purpose vehicle and, having had a look at the smashed tanks, said in a tired voice: "All those who are fit make their way back to our old quarters.

The BMV handles all registration of all-purpose vehicles, off-road motorcycles and snowmobiles.

The exploratory sled was an all-purpose vehicle, its ultimate potential not yet realized.

Sales of the minivans, all-purpose vehicles with sloping aerodynamic front ends, have been lagging.

On Jan. 4, the General Motors Corporation will introduce two mini-vans, the Chevrolet Lumina APV (for all-purpose vehicle) and the Pontiac Transport.