Cool Jam

[Scrubby]

In the market for a hot ute?

http://www.carsguide.com.au/news-and-reviews/car-reviews-road-tests/hottest_used_walkinshaw_ute_for_...

Gives me half a mongrel looking at it.

[Goncalo Crespo]

Damn good lookin ride!

[daddymack]

I kept looking at it going 'Ute?" Until I watched the video...

I wish US carmakers would do this...aside from the 'retro-y' overwrought Chevy SSR (discontinued in 2006) there is nothing like that produced here....

[Scrubby]

The 2013 Holden Commodore is about to be available in the US badged as a Chev SS.

I believe it will be slotted in between the Corvette and the Camaro.

http://www.themotorreport.com.au/55955/2013-holden-vf-commodore-ss-unveiled-photos-power-features-an...

You may recall the Pontiac G8 which was a 2 door Commodore rebadged. It was killed off during the GFC.

As for the ute, I seem to remember reading somewhere the GM would like to and may sell it in the States. So it might happen. Here is the HSV version.

http://www.hsv.com.au/e3/MalooR8/

Sort of makes the eyes water.

[Timezarrow]

Did you say utes?

[monstermaker]

Damn. I just bought one used with a ding in the door.

[daddymack]

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Timezarrow wrote:

Did you say utes?

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[Scrubby]

Ute is short for utility. A small pick-em-up truck.

[Force]

.. and here's where the ute started life ...

http://www.justauto.com.au/justcars/know/news/17e1bca3-6fda-41b5-83f5-1b8bdbd37733

[daddymack]

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Force wrote:

.. and here's where the ute started life ...

http://www.justauto.com.au/justcars/know/news/17e1bca3-6fda-41b5-83f5-1b8bdbd37733

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Ford may have made the first pick-up truck, but it was on the Model-T Frame, called the Roadster Pickup from 1925 to 1927...and in the US the term 'ute' came from WWII Utility trucks, and was non-specific, referring to Studebaker, Dodge, GM, Kaiser/Willys and Ford trucks...'deuce and a half', Jimmy...

[Force]

Yes I have seen some vehicles - trucks really - referred to as "utilities" dating from the '20s but Ford Oz coined "Coupe Utility" to emphasise the relative comfort of the passenger cabin. I'm sure there is more than a bit of marketing spin in their claims and many australians have a "we invented it" sense of ownership of the concept. Ten years earlier you could buy one of these :

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/chevrolet/unspecified/1067969.html

[Timezarrow]

That one doesn't look quite as luxurious.  But you can tell it's really old because it has a "Look out for dinosaurs" sign on the side.

[daddymack]

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Timezarrow wrote:

That one doesn't look quite as luxurious.  But you can tell it's really old because it has a "Look out for dinosaurs" sign on the side.

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I thought that was a "I brake for brontosauri" bumper sticker?

[Timezarrow]

That is a sound policy, I'd have to say. And the Latin plural, to boot.

[daddymack]

cause I don't know when to stop on brontosauruseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseses...see what I mean?