Thread: Land Rover doesn't understand Australia - no ute !

if LR make a ute, it needs to be like this

Originally Posted by Tombie

Your “real” working commercial vehicle wouldn’t be allowed on my site.

Those days are gone, now all heavier work is LTs with safety systems.

Sure your site has a set of rules......I was referring to sites I have experience with. Send us a pic when your site upgrade to a fleet of 110’s

The 10 sites owned by the company I work for and recently the two customer gold mines along with all the coal seam gas operations I have visited the bulk of the work is done by utes (hi-lux’s, other versions on dual and single cabs, 79 series).

I was replying to the statement of ‘why would you buy a dual cab Ute’, if they opened there eye utes are and will be required for many applications for quite some time.

I don’t have a need for a ute as my personal car, but for work the new defender would not be suitable.

Like you, I could just buy a new defender because a can...but one I don’t need it and two it doesn’t have the flexibility we need for our up and coming trip therefore we’ll stick with out current 2000 defender and re-assess in 2023.

You’re post only confirmed your observation of what LR would have also found during research.

The Ute market is flooded already.Any non-Thai produced vehicle cannot compete on pricing alone.
The soon to be gone 7x series won’t be much longer.

Several sites now are Rangers or LTs only. Which would partially explain Toyota’s 11.6% drop in Hilux and Cruiser sales.

Premium 4wd class was one of the best sales performers. Not a Cruiser/Patrol in the list.

Originally Posted by Tombie

You’re post only confirmed your observation of what LR would have also found during research.

The Ute market is flooded already.Any non-Thai produced vehicle cannot compete on pricing alone.
The soon to be gone 7x series won’t be much longer.

Several sites now are Rangers or LTs only. Which would partially explain Toyota’s 11.6% drop in Hilux and Cruiser sales.

Premium 4wd class was one of the best sales performers. Not a Cruiser/Patrol in the list.

whats an LT?

Tradies are better off with vans. Lots of storage and can be locked, so much more secure.

Originally Posted by Eevo

whats an LT?

light truck ?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Tradies are better off with vans. Lots of storage and can be locked, so much more secure.

I think plenty would disagree.....

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Idiots.

why would you want to compete in a market that is already oversaturated..

Mahindra make a nice ute.... or two....

i don't get all the angst from the die hard rusted on old world enthusiasts

sure it's different, yep it aint what once was...

but why would you in this day and age FFS?

happy to cruise my place in the world, in my 1995 130 and let the newbies zip by in the new units.... i can still pass the old units hehehehehehe

be happy, lifes way to short for all the bull**** and angst...