when you know the wipers can't keep up with all that rain from that storm i was heading to. looked in real even worse than on my quick pic
The Felicia and stock Maloos aren't. Ute. Utility coupe. Any small pickup basically. When the little Datsun pickups and Mazda mini trucks are utes.
No, there are actual definitions for what's what. Some of these vary from country to country, but at the end of the day the government/insurer is who decides. My first car was a two-door sedan. Volkswagen could have tried to go all fancy and call it a coupe, but it would still say two-door sedan on my insurance. As for utes vs. pickups, I don't know.
I still that dropping the Econoline was a dumb, dumb move by Ford, I know a guy who is running a heating /AC/NG company, and they've been using Ford vans since his grandfather started the business back in 1959. In the last three years they've gotten two new Transit vans, and both of them have been nothing but trouble, so much so that he's actually put in an order for 3 new Chevy vans.
They must have given you guys in the US some naff transit vans, cause over here they are everywhere, including plenty of older ones. The Ford Transit Custom is the best selling van in the UK, Vauxhal Vivaro in 2nd with the Ford transit being the 3rd most popular. The Ford transit Connect is in 7th. Its not like we lack choice when it comes to vans in the UK either, you have Ford, Vauxhaul, Mercedes, Citroen, Renault, Peugeot, LDV, Nissan, and VW to name a few. All of which sell a range of vans. Source:https://vans.honestjohn.co.uk/van-news/new-vans/2016-01/top-10-best-selling-vans-of-2015/?image=0 (and that is including sales of many pickups such as the L200 since they are in the same class) However pickups are getting more popular https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/lcv-registrations/
I know another guy who runs an appliance repair shop who bought a Transit van in 2015, and almost immediately had similar issues as my friend with the Heat/AC company, lack of power, transmission problems, electrical problems, door mechanism problems. He sold it late last year and bought a used 2009 E-350 with a V10. I haven't personally dealt with one yet, however I can say that it is easily one of the ugliest things currently on the road.
Personally I prefer the styling on the model it replaced. It had simple lines that worked well. I would probably go as far as to call it iconic. Simple and totally functional.
We never got that one here, however I will say that it does look slightly more tolerable than the current one.
The one I drove had like 8k on it. AC worked great. Made me feel really tall and high off the road. Nice and floaty.
In Australia, pretty much anything that has a tray or bucket/tub is a ute, regardless of how powerful the engine is, or if it is 4WD or not. This is a ute: This is also a ute (albeit a crappy one): Also a ute: Probably one of the most practical ute setups: This is not a ute though, this is a truck. Why? Because it uses about as much diesel as a semi truck and is probably just as hard to park.
I know you were being sarcastic, but comparing 25 MPG to 6 MPG isn't exactly fair. This actually brings up another question, does anyone here have any thoughts on the looming ELD mandate?
Nope, you're wrong, but feel free to call it a pickup if you like. Even the manufacturer is called Isuzu UTE Australia, so... https://www.isuzuute.com.au/d-max/overview.aspx I don't know why people who aren't from Australia or NZ think they know everything there is to know about "utes". What many people here seem to think constitutes a ute are extremely impractical sports cars, the only utility use they see is the rare moving of dirtbikes in the back. A ute like this is far more ute-ish, in the fact that it actually does work: Keep in mind that ute stands for utility, not pavement princess.
