Is this a four wheeler? It looks like a modified four-wheel drive pickup truck equipped for mountain driving. By the way, how did your grandson get it on top of this rock? It looks like it was picked up by a helicopter and set up there. When your grandson does do something, it is obvious that he does it right by not merely buying a cheap four wheeler from Walmart without even a roll bar.

Radio controlled! So these are the toys that kids play with nowadays. And we only had bicycles, tricycles, and John Deere tractors in the Fifties. I don’t know whether to stand up and shout “Hallelujah” or sit down and cry. It looks like a nice machine. If I had had access to one of these in the Fifties, it may have changed my mind about converting Dad’s smokehouse into a chemistry laboratiory. But I doubt it. I never liked fancy machines all that much in spite of the fact that we have a relatively late model Cadillac Escalade and a Mercedes Benz, M Class both of which my wife picked out.

with the first number indicating the total number of wheels on a vehicle and the second indicating the number of driven wheels. Today, the term 4×4 is common in North America, and is generally used when marketing a new or used vehicle, and is sometimes applied as badging on a vehicle equipped with four-wheel drive. Similarly, 4×2 would be appropriate for most two-wheel-drive vehicles, and is often used to describe them as a two-wheel drive. In Australia the term is often used to refer to a ute that sits very high on its suspension. This is to avoid the confusion that the vehicle might be a 4×4 because it appears otherwise suited to off-road applications.