Murican trucks are pavement princess short-bed towtrucks rather than haulers and offroaders now, sadly. I'd love an affordable open-bed hauler with some modern creature comforts (good AC, heated steering wheel, defrosting windshield/rear-window, ventilated seats, android auto, relatively low bed-height for easy loading)

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on the model. The Colorado and Ranger are both excellent off-road vehicles. The Colorado won truck of the year last year, even beating out the Toyota Tacoma. It's a 4x4 with great off-road handling, but it still drives nice on the road, and it can pull 7000 lbs. It's a really nice all around truck, for people who want a truck to do truck stuff with.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

The Colorado is a mid sized truck in name only.

It shares its L3B engine with the full-size Silverado.

Despite being a mid-size, in some dimensions it is somewhat bigger than the full-size Silverado, being built around the same chassis and frame while sharing the same L3B engine.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

real pity GM killed off Holden. not really in the know but the last utes should be quite recent if expensive for a Murican to get hold of in left hand drive.

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

gotta be 25 years old or older to register an imported car here sadly

tho 25 years ago is a lot more recent than it feels to my ancient ass

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

because they're just chevys you can do a conversion to side step that. I think I saw a youtube video about it once

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 1 points 2 months ago

Yah, lpoks like that's a thing.

Fucking coooool. An EV swap in one of those would be rad as fuck too.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jebuz, down here 20 years is considered a classic and qualifies for Historic registration

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy to me that 2004 was 20 years ago. The numbers add up but feel wrong

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if back to the future was made today Marty would go back to 1994 and play Smells like teen spirit at the dance

you know, I've been making that joke for so long the timeline doesn't line up properly anymore, wasn't Kurt already dead? who was big in the LATE 90s ... Limp Bizkit?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the guitar solo in the movie was more 70s/80s metal. I can’t really think of a good equivalent in terms of what people in early 90s wouldn’t understand. Maybe something like mumble rap.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do you really think anyone understood Limp Bizkit?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think early 90s me would have got that. Mumble rap OTOH, or maybe something like Insane Clown Posse, but more for the image than the music.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Between the Ford Maverick and especially the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the US market is closer to having utes than it has been in a long time. I shopped them both, but ultimately decided I would replace my 10 year old Subaru Outback with a needlessly upgraded Subaru Outback in the "Wilderness" trim. I tell my wife I had the most boring mid-life crisis ever.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Too bad the bed length is dogshit. They need to start making single cabs again.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

If GM had brought back just one Ute and called it the new El Camino they would have made bank.

Or probably not because I want one and nobody buys cars I like.