Murican trucks are pavement princess short-bed towtrucks rather than haulers and offroaders now, sadly. I’d love an affordable open-bed hauler with some modern creature comforts (good AC, heated steering wheel, defrosting windshield/rear-window, ventilated seats, android auto, relatively low bed-height for easy loading)
real pity GM killed off Holden. not really in the know but the last utes should be quite recent if expensive for a Murican to get hold of in left hand drive.
Between the Ford Maverick and especially the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the US market is closer to having utes than it has been in a long time. I shopped them both, but ultimately decided I would replace my 10 year old Subaru Outback with a needlessly upgraded Subaru Outback in the “Wilderness” trim. I tell my wife I had the most boring mid-life crisis ever.
Depends on the model. The Colorado and Ranger are both excellent off-road vehicles. The Colorado won truck of the year last year, even beating out the Toyota Tacoma. It’s a 4x4 with great off-road handling, but it still drives nice on the road, and it can pull 7000 lbs. It’s a really nice all around truck, for people who want a truck to do truck stuff with.
It shares its L3B engine with the full-size Silverado.
Despite being a mid-size, in some dimensions it is somewhat bigger than the full-size Silverado, being built around the same chassis and frame while sharing the same L3B engine.
Murican trucks are pavement princess short-bed towtrucks rather than haulers and offroaders now, sadly. I’d love an affordable open-bed hauler with some modern creature comforts (good AC, heated steering wheel, defrosting windshield/rear-window, ventilated seats, android auto, relatively low bed-height for easy loading)
real pity GM killed off Holden. not really in the know but the last utes should be quite recent if expensive for a Murican to get hold of in left hand drive.
Between the Ford Maverick and especially the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the US market is closer to having utes than it has been in a long time. I shopped them both, but ultimately decided I would replace my 10 year old Subaru Outback with a needlessly upgraded Subaru Outback in the “Wilderness” trim. I tell my wife I had the most boring mid-life crisis ever.
Too bad the bed length is dogshit. They need to start making single cabs again.
If GM had brought back just one Ute and called it the new El Camino they would have made bank.
Or probably not because I want one and nobody buys cars I like.
Depends on the model. The Colorado and Ranger are both excellent off-road vehicles. The Colorado won truck of the year last year, even beating out the Toyota Tacoma. It’s a 4x4 with great off-road handling, but it still drives nice on the road, and it can pull 7000 lbs. It’s a really nice all around truck, for people who want a truck to do truck stuff with.
The Colorado is a mid sized truck in name only.