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I thought americans loved utes? Really huge ones with no practical utility (as it were)?
In America we have lots of large full-frame pickup trucks, but very few small car-based pickups, which I think is what danoffs is looking for
I'm looking at the hilux workmate, but the second hand car market is fucked here. But we'd call both the little and big ones Ute's (trucks are like... lorries or tractor trailers)
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.
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