[VaerO]

Why doesn't Hyundai build utes?

[PiL]

as much as i love them, utes are actually highly impractical in most circumstances. almost anything you can put into a ute would go into the back of a work van and avoid it getting wet in the rain, dusty, stolen etc.

i think this is the smallest they make:

[CraigB]

There maybe one in the near future Hyundai Santa Cruz Pickup Truck by 2017? | Tundra Headquarters Blog


This is something Kia is thinking of for the US market

[Just Rick]

First one looks like the rest of them Ford Rodeo Mazda,second looks a lot like the landrover discovery in Ute form

[CraigB]

And no Landrover 4x4 capability either looking at that guard clearance, strickly a townie for cruising the beach strip.

[FatBoy]

Utes are an Australian invention, so it is unlikely that any other country would build one.  The only thing from outside Australia that I could think of would be the El Camino.

Chevrolet El Camino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Lakes]

as much as i love them, utes are actually highly impractical in most circumstances. almost anything you can put into a ute would go into the back of a work van and avoid it getting wet in the rain, dusty, stolen etc.

i think this is the smallest they make:

Phil i hate Vans but also don't like forward control utes like that, the sky is the limit for load hight with a ute. but in the city & as you said  when it rains, vans are good . just buggers to work on and load as you have to bend or hit your head on roof.

[AlanHo]

Utes are an Australian invention, so it is unlikely that any other country would build one.  The only thing from outside Australia that I could think of would be the El Camino.

Chevrolet El Camino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The name Ute may be an Australian invention - but surely the real beginnings for such vehicles was in the USA. But they called them Pick Up Trucks - now abbreviated to Trucks.

1925 Ford Model T Pickup Truck For Sale or Trade. motorlandamerica.com 2 - YouTube

[The Gonz]

My impression is that Australia invented it by basing it on a sedan body, not a truck body.

[FatBoy]

That is my understanding, Gonz.

I call a pick-up truck either a pick-up or dual cab, whereas I own a ute.

We are all divided by a common language.

[cruiserfied]

Agree Ute is a car based vehicle (invented by Australians) pickup trucks are their own design. Although I call em all Utes.

[CraigB]

The term "ute" was an Aussie idea requested by farmers in 1932 wanting a vehicle that could go to church on Sundays and cart livestock on other days,  first came to Australia in the form of a 1934 Ford coupe utility.

Utility type vehicles have of course been around far earlier than this but were not sedan type bodies.

Birth Of The Coupe Utility

[Doggie 1]

Definitely invented in Australia and picked up (see what I did there?) by the U.S.A.

[cruiserfied]

I've always wondered if the wife got her Ute in the end????