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uvar posted:I hope the driver was alone: Nice ute!
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Imagine dying breaking for a wallaby. Also how does one drive a car in rural Australia without roo bars and without two smashed out headlights?
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Azhais posted:What's a ute? It’s like an El Camino or Ranchero, but still sold in TYOOL 2017. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Azhais posted:What's a ute? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6qGwmXZtsE&t=107s Powershift fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Azhais posted:What's a ute? "Utility truck". In the US they'd call it a pickup or a coupé utility.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"Utility truck". In the US they'd call it a pickup or a coupé utility. No one in the recorded history of north america has ever used that name.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"Utility truck". In the US they'd call it a pickup or a coupé utility. In the US they call it an El Camino, Ford Ranchero because those were the only two that ever sold in any quantity. In the '70s.
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Bip Roberts posted:In the US they call it an El Camino, Ford Ranchero because those were the only two that ever sold in any quantity. In the '70s. They're still suuuuuper popular in Australia. We even have ute festivals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_muster 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They're still suuuuuper popular in Australia. We even have ute festivals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_muster Which brings us back to a guy falling off the back of a ute at one of these events and dying. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-07/friends-pays-tribute-after-summernats-ute-death/8167578
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the mullet of automobiles
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Deteriorata posted:It's also suspicious that the video appeared in early 2014, when the Dutch had disbanded their last tank regiment back in 2011. They still have a few Leopards around, apparently, but they are being sold off and aren't in active service. what? You realise that since 1944 the Dutch aren't part of germany anymore right? So that german video has nothing to do with anything going on in the netherlands?
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Then why's it called Deutschland?!
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I live in america and i wish i could buy a ute
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Spunky Junior Reporter! posted:I live in america and i wish i could buy a ute CAFE standards killed utes. Now we get SUV's instead.
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Spunky Junior Reporter! posted:I hope trump gets rid of CAFE Trumps getting rid of all of it, CAFE, EPA, ACA, OSHA, AAA, the KKK. okay, well, maybe not that last one.
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Spunky Junior Reporter! posted:I live in america and i wish i could buy a ute
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Synthbuttrange posted:Then why's it called Deutschland?! I don't know, you should ask the Pennsylvania Dutch about that one.
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Azhais posted:What's a ute? A "truck", if you're American. I think. I saw a billboard ad over here for Ram Trucks, featuring utes, and was like "that's not a truck, this is a truck"! I've only ever heard "truck" used to refer to I think what you guys call a "semitrailer".
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Hyperlynx posted:I saw a billboard ad over here for Ram Trucks, featuring utes, and was like "that's not a truck, this is a truck"! I've only ever heard "truck" used to refer to I think what you guys call a "semitrailer". The semi‐trailer is just the trailer. You mean a semi‐truck.
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Platystemon posted:The semi‐trailer is just the trailer. Yeah, the tractor, aka road tractor, aka tractor trailer truck. But here in Australia 'tractor' is pretty much always used to refer to a farm tractor and never a road tractor. Also when an Australian is talking about a truck they almost always mean what the British call a lorry but I gather that when Americans talk about trucks they're usually referring to pickups.
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 Sometimes signs like this are required because morons think “I’m in a truck  ” and take the ramp.
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The Sausages posted:Why would we call a lorry a truck I get a lot of british slang like crisps and bin but I never understood lorry.
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ChesterJT posted:I get a lot of british slang like crisps and bin but I never understood lorry. I live in a commonwealth country and we've always used lorries to mean what americans know as box trucks and trucks to mean semi-trailers (even if its just the prime mover without the trailer) Much more precise than using truck to refer to anything from pickups to road trains imo
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uvar posted:I hope the driver was alone: This happened to me a few years ago except my head flew into the lap of a little girl.
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Okay Aatrek.
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Yeah, thing with a big box on the back. That's a truck. Not a van or a ute, though, those are vans and utes. e: come to think of it, maaaaaybe that's a van too. When someone says "van" I think of those squat boxy things plumbers and electricians drive, though. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Hyperlynx posted:Yeah, thing with a big box on the back. That's a truck. Not a van or a ute, though, those are vans and utes. Nah, that's definitely not a van, that's a truck. I've lived here for twenty-six years and have lived on both coasts and no-one would consider that a van.
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ekuNNN posted:what? You realise that since 1944 the Dutch aren't part of germany anymore right? So that german video has nothing to do with anything going on in the netherlands? Every description of the video says it was done by the Dutch army, who had Leopards as part of their military only up until 2011.
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If you're American and you want a ute, the Honda Ridgeline probably qualifies.
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Subaru Brat. Or Baja.
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FuturePastNow posted:If you're American and you want a ute, the Honda Ridgeline probably qualifies. No. No it does not.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:I live in a commonwealth country and we've always used lorries to mean what americans know as box trucks and trucks to mean semi-trailers (even if its just the prime mover without the trailer) I know what a lorry is to people who use the term. I'm saying I don't understand why they do. The etymology of it.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:Much more precise than using truck to refer to anything from pickups to road trains imo Truck is a category with subcategories. Pickup truck, semi truck, box truck, etc. Basically any class of vehicle where the utility portion of the vehicle is typically separate from the passenger compartment and easily reconfigured is a truck. Ridgelines, Avalanches, utes, and chassis-cab vans all introduce some grey area to that rule, but for the most part it works. FuturePastNow posted:If you're American and you want a ute, the Honda Ridgeline probably qualifies. If you're looking at the rational reasons to have a ute, such as having something with most of the good characteristics of a car while still having the truck capabilities a normal person is likely to actually use, you are correct. I suspect however that most of the people on the internet who wish we could get utes in America are like me and are more interested in the specifics of the Australian utes, particularly their rear wheel drive and available high-power engines. We don't want a relatively practical family hauler with a pickup bed, we want a muscle car with a pickup bed.
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ChesterJT posted:I know what a lorry is to people who use the term. I'm saying I don't understand why they do. The etymology of it. Wikipedia posted:"Lorry" has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the rail transport industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck (a goods wagon as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American), specifically a large flat wagon. It probably derives from the verb lurry (to pull, tug) of uncertain origin. Its expanded meaning, "self-propelled vehicle for carrying goods", has been in usage since 1911. Before that, the word "lorry" was used for a sort of big horse-drawn goods wagon.
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FuturePastNow posted:If you're American and you want a ute, the Honda Ridgeline probably qualifies. El Camino
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