• @biddy@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Traditional Australian utes were just passenger cars with the back chopped off. So they had the same footprint as passenger cars with the same safe front style and efficient practical design. Then the American pickup trucks arrived, stole the term “ute”, and now proper utes are extremely rare.

    • @quoll
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      36 months ago

      First the libs dismantled the Aussie car industry

      then the wank tanks arrived