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hausfrauenpanzer This needs immediate adoption in English, it fits perfectly!


In Melbourne, Australia, they're called Toorak Tractors, in reference to the affluent suburb where they're common.

Just like Hausfrauenpanzer, with bonus alliteration!


Interesting -- in England we have the equivalent "Chelsea tractor".


Soccer-mom SUV is probably the equivalent, no?


House-wife tank is so much better.


Bit sexist though, no?


And "soccer mom" isn't?


I was kind of replying to both - though I guess that wasn't fully apparent.


Doesn't have quite the same easy association with a lumbering slab of unwieldy armour. Perhaps picture a Panzer IV rolling down the high street, rolling over a bicycle or two, before going right through the supermarket wall.


The German has such a more enjoyable roll coming off the tongue though.


"Soccer Personnel Carrier"




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