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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

I saw a ute today😮 (And I am not in Australia)

Bright yellow dodge sedan converted to a ute.
aug 16, 2025, 6:13 am • 56 2

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Manic Pixie Dream Witch @oneinchframe.bsky.social

🎶 I saw a ute today, oh boy … 🎶

aug 17, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

I’ve found out more about this ute! It’s a custom (chopped out of a dodge sedan) that’s profiled on a page of a business that does kits for ute-ifying everything from Jettas to Chargers! It looked so clean in person I didn’t think it was a chop!

aug 17, 2025, 1:20 am • 17 0 • view
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

Also I think it’s cool that a disabled person was driving this and also likely did the conversion too💚

aug 17, 2025, 1:22 am • 15 0 • view
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bcwbcw.bsky.social @bcwbcw.bsky.social

* I'm sorry youtu.be/K6qGwmXZtsE?...

aug 17, 2025, 1:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Patrick @pgvdw.bsky.social

I regret complaining about the ute-boys hooning around where I live, for now they have all become American "truck" men.

aug 17, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
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Emil Mertzel @emilmertzel.bsky.social

OMG calling a charger a “sedan” - show me the lie though, such underwhelming “muscle”

aug 17, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

lol my bad—I guess I see 4 doors and just label it a sedan but yeah this statement would probably get me ejected from some car meets 😂🥲

aug 17, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Emil Mertzel @emilmertzel.bsky.social

No I love it - I rented chargers (4 door!) on a couple of trips and was really surprised how … uninspiring they are to drive. Very much a sedan!

aug 17, 2025, 4:19 am • 2 0 • view
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suibeom.bsky.social @suibeom.bsky.social

appropriate that it's yellow and black because it's a beeeeee-ute

aug 17, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social

Hard to believe ancient relatives of these things once roamed our lands like automotive dinosaurs. I don't miss them at all (if one needs a cargo bed & hauling ability, buy a pickup truck), but I've read that both Ford and Chevy have plans to reintroduce new versions.

Photo of a black Chevy El Camino SS with white hood rally stripes. Photo of a canary yellow Ford Ranchero with custom side rally paint and hood scoops.
aug 16, 2025, 7:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

Tbh I love them💚💚 If a new version of el caminos, like utes, catch on here and more people trade driving giant pavement princess pickup trucks as their daily drivers for weird little half-car half-pickups I’d be fine with that. It would at least give pedestrians and smaller cars a fighting chance.

aug 17, 2025, 1:17 am • 1 0 • view
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social

American drivers being, well, American drivers, I doubt many would swap. I've never understood using full-size HD pickups for daily (esp. urban) commutes and not a hauling/towing tool, but many do just that. They must love burning money ($$$ price + fuel costs). Did you like the old Subaru BRATs?

aug 17, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
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hedgehog27.bsky.social @hedgehog27.bsky.social

Rarely see them in Australia anymore

aug 16, 2025, 7:28 am • 1 0 • view
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zenhussy @zenhussy.bsky.social

is this the baby of a subaru brat and an el camino?

aug 16, 2025, 6:19 am • 2 0 • view
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andyroz Go Green @andyroz.bsky.social

That is indeed a Holden logo. A Monaro maybe?

Holden Monaro
aug 16, 2025, 8:30 am • 1 0 • view
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com

Did you say Ute? (This gag only works if it sounds like yout)

aug 16, 2025, 6:40 am • 6 0 • view
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Specific Allie 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 @grissallia.bsky.social

Wow. That’s pretty cool.

aug 16, 2025, 6:17 am • 1 0 • view