SO, “pick-up truck” or “ute”? We should look to Australia’s past and copy the terms used from about 80 years ago. Back then the Holden coachbuilding outfit sold two ranges of Chevrolet utes concurrently. The lighter capacity was the “Passenger Ute” and the heavier duty version the “Commercial Ute”. So observing the Australian ute convention, we could describe the now-extinct Commodore and Falcon utes as passenger utes and the likes of the Toyota HiLux, Holden Colorado and Ford Ranger could be called commercial utes.
