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Ute

What is the Australian meaning?
  

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[/nq] Got to Google dot com and type in "ute Australia". Come back if you've got any more questions. ) Michael West

  • [/nq] Got to Google dot com and type in "ute Australia".
  • Come back if you've got any more questions.
  • ) Michael West
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[nq:1]What is the Australian meaning?[/nq]
Got to Google dot com and type in "ute Australia".

Come back if you've got any more questions.
(Hint: A vehicle you can use to take the wife
to church on Sunday and the pigs to market on Monday.)
Michael West
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[nq:1]What is the Australian meaning?[/nq]
A young person.
Or is that Brooklyn?
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Irwell infrared:
[nq:1]What is the Australian meaning?[/nq]
Originally "utility vehicle", but the abbreviation is so common that most people have forgotten the long form. It looks like a sedan with the back half cut off and replaced by a tray. (The tray is big enough to carry furniture, bales of hay, cement mixers, and so on, but in practice it's mostly used to carry the dog.) I think the
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[nq:1]Irwell infrared:[/nq]
[nq:2]What is the Australian meaning?[/nq]
[nq:1]Originally "utility vehicle", but the abbreviation is so common that most people have forgotten the long form. It looks like ... approximate equivalent is a pickup truck, but since I'm not a C&W fan I don't know much about pickup trucks.[/nq]
I've been told that originally the ute was a modified passenger car,
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[nq:2]Irwell infrared: Originally "utility vehicle", but the abbreviation is so ... a C&W fan I don't know much about pickup trucks.[/nq]
[nq:1]I've been told that originally the ute was a modified passenger car, and therefore built on a car chassis (unlike a US pickup) rather than a truck chassis. Current utes come with varying types of chassis.[/nq]
This appears to be one.
P

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[nq:1]This appears to be one:

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[nq:2]Irwell infrared: Originally "utility vehicle", but the abbreviation is so ... a C&W fan I don't know much about pickup trucks.[/nq]
[nq:1]I've been told that originally the ute was a modified passenger car, and therefore built on a car chassis (unlike a US pickup) rather than a truck chassis. Current utes come with varying types of chassis.[/nq]
So Michael W. knew the answer all the
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Here's a narrative history.


Michael West
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[nq:1]I've been told that originally the ute was a modified passenger car, and therefore built on a car chassis (unlike a US pickup) rather than a truck chassis.[/nq]
That would make it most like our El Camino.
Kaleb
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[nq:2]This appears to be one:

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