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In 5 years some of his vids will be recommended by KZfaq

@@Ice_Soup_3k This one was in my feed today...

I agree. These reviews are so much better than most of their type.

Amen to that! I love Ed's stuff. We need to keep supporting him to make sure.💪

YUP ...always proof read voice recognition dictation ...😂

Personally i have an xw panel van. It’s weird to think that Americans hardly know anything about the ute let alone the panel van. I’m just worried it’ll become a “trend” to own an aussie ute or panel van and the Americans will import them out of existence

@@Man-bc8wv America is like a cemetery for coveted imports. Look at what they are doing to the Japanese cars right now. I mourn every time I learn of another car getting exported from its natural habitat in Japan to a backwards cap wearing JDM Bro in America. Hunted to extinction.

@@Man-bc8wv Panel Vans are a thing in America you know. Vans exist in America

@@nickrustyson8124 vans and panel vans are completely different things you guys had them back in the day with like the old milk trucks but a “panel van” or “shagon wagon” or “sin bin” is usually based off of a sedan just the same as utes being based off of sedans. Vans however are usually based off of a truck or a more heavy duty platform Theres a difference from a sandman and a ford transit

@@Man-bc8wv In that case yeah we had them back in the 1950s, it's just when those cab over Vans came out they quickly replaced those old Panel Vans, mainly because they can fit more and it's easier to park with

The Aussie ute's days were numbered when Ford pulled the plug on local manufacturing because the Falcon sales had dropped considerably. Once that happened GM, wanting out of the RHD market worldwide, killed Holden. Toyota's massive factory in Melbourne followed suit because with no other local manufacturers there was no economy of scale for shared parts. The death of Holden, especially, was like an arrow in the heart of Australians everywhere. Holden was to Australia what Chevy has always been to Americans. Holdens were advertised as "Australia's Own Car" since the first model, the 48-215 rolled off the production line. Holden's Australian engineers designed cars which were built tough to take our outback roads and yet supple enough to cruise the highways and new freeways of the cities which started popping up in the 60s. Our American cousins got to sample some Holden product in the shape of the Pontiac GTO / G8 and the much underrated Chevy SS. Sadly, because GM US were frightened to annoy your autoworkers, the other Holdens like the ute and the station wagons never made it to your shores. The final Holdens, the "VF" series (I own a wagon version) were the finest car ever produced in Australia. In development they were benchmarked against BMWs and Audis and it shows. Superb suspension, handling and rollicking V6 and V8 engines. The build quality was second to none. The final Ford Falcons were also superb cars, well built, great handling and very powerful yet economical. Ford Australia wanted to export Falcons to the US and some made it over there for testing. FoMoCo US engineers and marketing guys loved them but the FoMoCo executives wouldn't pony-up the cash so that the floorpan of the cars could be made to accommodate LHD for exports, like the Holden Commodores. The execs were also terrified that that the Falcon would annoy your autoworkers due to their quality, low cost and durability. Had FoMoCo given the green light to a LHD Falcon our car industry might not have died but that's like spilt milk I suppose. BTW, you can buy LHD Holden utes from a company in the US which does low volume conversions of Australian vehicles to certify them for the US market. Look up "Left Hand Utes."

Chevrolet was owned by GM who owned Holden Australia. Mercury, Dodge, Plymouth and De Soto Utes were never sold in Australia. Holden and Ford Australia had the Ute market cornered as they were very good cars. And Australia only had 4 Manufacturers, Holden, Ford, Toyota and Chrysler. Toyota never had a Ute in Australia, and the only Ute Chrysler had was an Import from America that did not sell very well at all as to big. I know this because I am Australian and am 61 and have grown up with Aussie cars and have my own Holden Ute.

@@BatMan-oe2gh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup%C3%A9_utility Here's a list of "utes they didn't sell in Australia".! You will note that the list includes Mercury, Dodge, DeSoto and Plymouth!

@@stephenvelden295 You didn't read the article I see. No where does it say those Utes were Manufactured in Australia. They were Imported in very small numbers. And there are very few as even back in the late 60's, I never saw many on the road. Plus I grew up in Regional Areas that required those sorts of vehicles. Plus those cars were actually Pick Up Trucks, not Utes. You stated, " Almost all vehicle manufacturers in the Australian market had a Ute at some point". Australia was too small a market for the majority of Vehicle manufacturers and were too expensive for most people, that is why Holden did so well compared to the others. One example is the 1946 Mercury Ute, only 90 Built and sold in Australia by Ford, but they were more expensive than the locally made Ford Ute.

@@BatMan-oe2gh You are wrong! Do your research before you type. None of those utes mentioned were available in the USA or anywhere else. They were all locally manufactured for the local Australian market. That's why there are so few of them.

@@stephenvelden295 Did my research, and even looked at the link you provided. Here is one, Chrysler cars came to Australia during the 1920's and, in 1935, 18 independent agents formed Chrysler-Dodge-De Soto Distributors (Australia) Pty Ltd. Chrysler imported cars until they started building the Valiant range in the mid 60's. Before that they imported and assembled the cars here. But again, very few Utes. Toyota started in 1963, but did not build Utes. Ford was the only one who manufactured Utes in Australia until Holden started in 1948. But again, very few Utes were imported into Australia because America was not building them. They were Pickup Trucks, not Utes.

And decades later, Joe Pesci and Fred Gwynn had a conversation about utes in a courtroom...... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZyhetqevcDYo3k.html

But Volvo invented it

@@nickrustyson8124 Volvo never put it into fulltime production, so the credit for invention of the *Ute* stays *firmly* with us Aussies.

@@neilforbes416 Okay then, what about those trucks based on a Model T?

@@nickrustyson8124 Those "utes" based on Model-T Fords were more than 90% likely modified by the owners who bought them. Henry Ford himself would've baulked at the idea of converting his beloved "Tin Lizzie" into a "ute".

Toyota made Crown utes in the 60's.

I'm sure I've seen a Nissan Cedric and Toyota Corona mk 1 ute too. There was also the Datsun/Nissan 1200.

Never knew that about the Avalon.

There seems to be a push, now , in the US, since the “Compact “ pickup trucks are really “ Mid-Size “ - , to fill a missing gap in the market. Personally, I like the idea. 📻🙂

@@jeffking291 Thinking about the VW Rabbit pickup, I've many time looked at my Highlander Hybrid and thought how easily it could be made into something with a bed the size of a Tacoma minus a toolbox, with the fuel economy of a Prius towing a trailer, but that still handles like a Camry with a lighter read end

@@MarcillaSmith It wouldn’t take much to do this on a number of current Crossovers. 📻🙂

And the newly unveiled Hyundai Santa Cruz!

origin of all these were flower cars built for funeral homes..

Thanks for the thumbs up.

You could get a tandem rear axle HQ ute with a trayback. In the early '80s the term was "cab-chassis", if "pick-up" has ever been used it has to be this century. Traybacks are still utes. Always were.

Correct. I think the defining piece is that they are derived from a passenger car. I used to be super strict on the tray being integral to the body as well, but the Holden One Tonner and later Crewman, and the latter Ford Falcons with the seperate tub and or tray blurred the lines a bit. I would exclude them previously but I have softened my stance as they are car based.

My country says thankyou.

just a damn shame they lost a war to some big birds

@@punchy207 Wow, You have hit peak humour! How funny.

@@crapcopter i cant tell if youre being sarcastic or not

@@punchy207 Sarcastic haha.

America and Canada: the bigg trucks. Land down under, smol trucks. Kinda neat dynamic. Also writing this from my big 90’s 7.3l diesel F250 heh.

@@ApolloTheDerg i mean when you think about it suv’s are just giant hatchbacks aye

@@Man-bc8wv Suvs are just wagons on truck frames, that isn't even a joke back in the day the Suburban was known as a wagon

@Abe Vigoda's Left Testicle why isn’t it legal? I always thought you guys never imported them because of the 25 year import rule. Is it because of safety standards?

@@Man-bc8wv I might be wrong but here in Canada I think it's 15 years. Them Holden Utes are fucking cool. I'd drive that here. I asked a guy with a right hand drive skyline how he could see turning left at an intersection, he had a little camera in the front of his left mirror with a screen on the dash. Lots of heavy trucks running the trans canada here have ali-arc and herd bumpers. We call em moose juicers. Prob wouldn't do shit against a moose but cool name anyway.

A gift to the world... we have enough shitty cars as is.

Trucks are kind of trashy anyway.

Having watched two of his videos out of curiosity, I can understand why he's only achieved less than 5k views.

He repeats info from other existing videos...

Tell a friend.

What year was that?

I got a 1995 with 5 spd, still on original clutch, and still pullin hotshots

Granted the last Ute that wasn't 100% terrible came in 1987, over 34 years ago.

And they are pick-up trucks, not utes.

They were called buckboards. Anyway utes are a production model, we're not talking about conversions.

Utes tend to be unibody designs

Utes were factory made production models, not cars modified by clowns in their backyards

Every flog calls it a Brat though

My mother grew up on the Ute native reservation in Ignacio, Colorado also hahaha. My grandpa was a pricipal there. I would so love to own one of these vehicles and pimp it out..indigenous style hahahha

I'm sure they love you too. ❤️

Are you aware a Ranchero and El Camino were longer than Fullsize single cab trucks right?

Auzzies? wtf! never seen it spelt like that b4... sure you're an Aussie or just some wannabe?

Are you aware in te 1980s they weren't Australian Utes

I wouldn't say too similar- no Aussie utes were fwd. Unless you want to include obscure, "failed" attempts like the Austin 1800 ute in the 60's. Mind you, I wouldn't mind one now, upgraded with mitsubishi magna v6 drivetrain!

They were around, but they were never the working man's car, it was his bastard dipshit son's car

The ram 1500 in australia now has an 800kg payload. It's a huge vehicle compared to an aussie ute. The typical payload for a 70's Aussie ute was 750kg. I like the ram, but the payload is embarrassing. And you can't fit in a supermarket carpark here either. They're impressive, but inconvenient.