Oversized SUVs and American style pickup trucks are starting to dominate Australia's streets - and this is causing huge environmental and safety problems. So...
Please don’t call pickup trucks “Utes”. From an American perspective, Utes are small trucks based on cars, like the El Camino or Holden Ute. They’re way more space efficient and I’d imagine a lot more fuel efficient than their pickup cousins. Utes are dead in the US because they got eaten up by giant pickups, but it’d be cool if they made a come back.
Please don’t call pickups “trucks”. From a German perspective, trucks are way bigger than pickups (above 3.5t) like the Atego or TGL. They are way more spacious and I’d imagine a lot more useful than their pickup nephews. Pickups are niche in Germany because they are too small for most business use and worse than a station wagon for families, and I hope it stays that way.
Please don’t call suburban penis replacements “pickups”. From a rural American perspective, most people who drive these four door, crew cabin, near useless short bed, almost always washed and waxed, with oversized, underutilized engines driven around the city is just sad and pathetic. I saw one of these when I was vacationing in Bonn and I just laughed with my wife and went “damn, I guess male penis compensation is universal”.
As an Australian, A ute isn’t exactly a pickup, although we don’t use the term pickup so not exactly sure, it’s like a sedan with a bed/tray. My understanding is a pickup is higher off the ground than a traditional sedan.
Yeah, a pickup truck is a body-on-frame vehicle with two separate body units: the forward section with the engine compartment and passenger compartment often called the cab, and a separate cargo box that in some cases might be removed and some other body installed for specialty jobs. An Aussie ute is built with its body as a single assembly, and some might even be unibody construction rather than body-on-frame.
Utes often share styling or even components with sedans, pickups don’t.
Please don’t call pickup trucks “Utes”. From an American perspective, Utes are small trucks based on cars, like the El Camino or Holden Ute. They’re way more space efficient and I’d imagine a lot more fuel efficient than their pickup cousins. Utes are dead in the US because they got eaten up by giant pickups, but it’d be cool if they made a come back.
Please don’t call pickups “trucks”. From a German perspective, trucks are way bigger than pickups (above 3.5t) like the Atego or TGL. They are way more spacious and I’d imagine a lot more useful than their pickup nephews. Pickups are niche in Germany because they are too small for most business use and worse than a station wagon for families, and I hope it stays that way.
Please don’t call suburban penis replacements “pickups”. From a rural American perspective, most people who drive these four door, crew cabin, near useless short bed, almost always washed and waxed, with oversized, underutilized engines driven around the city is just sad and pathetic. I saw one of these when I was vacationing in Bonn and I just laughed with my wife and went “damn, I guess male penis compensation is universal”.
From an Australian perspective, presumably where OP is from, Ute apparently is slang for pickup…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)
As an Australian, A ute isn’t exactly a pickup, although we don’t use the term pickup so not exactly sure, it’s like a sedan with a bed/tray. My understanding is a pickup is higher off the ground than a traditional sedan.
Think of an El Camino - that’s a ute
Yeah, a pickup truck is a body-on-frame vehicle with two separate body units: the forward section with the engine compartment and passenger compartment often called the cab, and a separate cargo box that in some cases might be removed and some other body installed for specialty jobs. An Aussie ute is built with its body as a single assembly, and some might even be unibody construction rather than body-on-frame.
Utes often share styling or even components with sedans, pickups don’t.
You’d imagine wrong. El caminos had the same motors and gearing as the pickups.