[00:00] Why have utes never worked in America? This is the Chevy Avalanche. It's our most successful version of what they have in Australia and New Zealand. It's essentially a Chevy Tahoe or Chevy
[00:12] Suburban with half of a pickup truck bad in the back. Now in Australia and New Zealand they have these things all the time. Most of us in the United States are only really familiar with the Commodore and the Falcon ute, but from my experience of being in Australia and New Zealand, they really
[00:30] refer to any sort of pickup truck as a utility vehicle, as a ute. Whereas over here, we tend to judge most pickup trucks by their ability to handle full sheets of plywood, sheetrock, or drywall,
[00:47] right? I mean, sheetrock and drywall, kind of the same thing, kind of not. Whereas in Australia, they have most of their utility vehicles as what we would call stake beds or flat beds,
[00:59] and they don't really call it a bed, they call it a tray. But those are really the ones that don't have any sides to the bed. They'll just build things around it, given to the more DYI nature
[01:11] of Australia and New Zealand. But in the United States, we want our trucks to be able to do work right from the showroom without any modifications. And we don't want extra steps in between us
[01:26] putting stuff into the bed and having it fit. So if you want to use an avalanche for anything other than odd shaped small stuff, you have to do that Transformers move of folding down the rear
[01:43] seats, taking out the rear glass, opening up the hatch in between, and now you just smell what's in the bed. It just doesn't work for our sensibilities. And I think that's why Utes never worked in the United States.