User talk:Sv1ambo

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Ute

Hi! You seem keen to edit the ute article, so I'll give you my thoughts and see what you can make of it. Lewis Brandt was given the task of putting a cargo rear body onto a passenger vehicle such that it could do double duty of driving to church on Sunday and hauling pigs to market on Monday. The church part meant he chose a coupe as a starting vehicle - a flat back window looks too obviously like a truck. Passenger car chassis' were relatively short at the rear, so just tacking a separate cargo bed on the back would just snap in the middle from metal fatigue. So he made the cargo bed integral to the coupe body. This meant the cargo body borrowed strength from the coupe body. So, both the coupe body for looks and an integral cargo area were fundamental in how a coupe utility differed from other pickups (note, pickups such as the Ford TT already existed before all this). Fast forward to the 1970's. The Falcon XA/XB/XC still had a coupe body and an integral cargo area. The Holden HQ ute had a flat back window (not a coupe) but still had an integral cargo body. However, the HQ one-tonner had a flat back window and a separate tray. So the term ute was softened to mean any passenger car based pickup truck (my first car was a Datsun 1200 ute). Fast forward to about 2000. The term ute lost any separate meaning from pickup truck and any vehicle with an open rear cargo area short of a Mack was called a ute, including the Hilux, Bronco and Ford F-150. That's my understanding anyway. Stepho talk 09:47, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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