• SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net
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    1 year ago

    idk if it’s an American thing, but please stop calling them trucks. Trucks are actual freight hauling industrial vehicles. This is just a family car with a bucket on the back. Call it a ute or whatever.

    • ThePalmtopTiger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Truck is just slang for pickup truck. Ute as a term isn’t really a thing in the US. Coup utilities like an El Camino or Subaru Baja feel pretty distinct from modern American pickups though. It’d be weird to put them in the same category given how different they are in both form and function.

    • biddy@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Ute used to refer to a 2 door vehicle with a bed based on a car chassis. Traditional utes are dying out even in Australia and New Zealand.

      The American term “pickup truck” is a better term for these new vehicles built on their own oversized “light truck” chassis.