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Hexbear's premier community for the discussion of and questions about cars, motorcycles, and other low occupancy transit. Share your thoughts, discuss cars under communism, and ask questions about maintenance.

Anti-car posting is not permited. Train good car bad and all, but it's not what this comm is for.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We're offering our inexpert advice in all things automotive.

We might discuss your question on our podcast. Yes, this means that we've run out of ideas for episodes and are too lazy to do research.

Edit: Thanks for the questions everyone. We didn't have time to answer all of them on the show but I'll try to answer all of them on here. The episode probably won't be out for over a month since we've got a backlog of editing to do.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard "Ute" used much in America except to refer to the Native American tribe. I'm not sure what the official word for a car-based pickup would be, but colloquially people have used the suffix -amino as in the Chevrolet El Camino. So if someone chopped the roof off of a Volvo station wagon and made it into a pickup it would be a Volvamino.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's kinda cute I guess. I feel like I hear Americans refer to them as trucks which doesn't feel right to me.

I want a Kei truck, which people wouldn't call a Ute here