"Kar Wai Wong" (kingawesome467)
06/22/2018 at 12:57 • Filed to: Endangered Species, Ute, Pickup, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Saveiro, VW, Saveiro, VW Saverio, Fiat, Fiat Strada, Strada, Ram, RAM 700, Chevrolet, Chevrolet Montana, Chevrolet Tornado, Nissan, NP200, Nissan NP200, SAIPA, SAIPA 151, IKCO, IKCO Arisun, Renault, Renault Tondar, Listicles |  7
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Car based pickups are a wonderful thing. (Well, I prefer the term ute or bakkie, but in Australia and South Africa those terms have assimilated so that all pickups are called that, and it may be confusing for an Australian to hear how utes are a dying breed. So I have to use car based pickup. Annoying.)
The car based pickup is where stuff gets done. I think more work gets done in these small little things than full sized ones. Sure a lot of trucks can tow a yacht, whilst carrying half of the Amazon’s worth in wood, all while you and your extended family are getting massaged in leather seats. I’m sure their owners do that all the time. But the car based pickup? No bullshit, a utilitarian workhorse. Isn’t that what a pickup is supposed to be? It also helps ease my dislike for crew cabs.
Unfortunately the recent death of Australian cars, has left a massive hole in many of our hearts, and the death of the entire RWD ute segment. And that leaves just a few FWD supermini based pickups left, all in developing countries. Not exactly super exciting stuff, but interesting nonetheless.
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Ok, this may recognise this if you’ve been reading Jalopnik semi-recently. Built in Brazil, this based off the VW Gol hatchback/VW Voyage sedan, where the Polo, is the premium choice.
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And you can get it in single cab, extended cab with a cargo area behind the seats or the double cab with 3 additional seats. They’re all still 2 doors, so you have to climb in the back of your extended cab sports car style.
Fiat Strada
They sold this until 2017!
The Brazillian built Strada is the based off the old Fiat Palio Fire, which was on sale for stupid long, and although it was killed, the estate and the pickup still soldier on. Unlike the most of the other pickups here, you can get it with extra doors! One Veloster style single door on the right hand side....
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a higher metal to plastic ratio on a car.
Funny how much a trim level can change the appearance so much. Back in my day, we payed extra to remove the plastic bumpers.
Ram 700
Hey, aren’t you going to unbuckle your belt?
Wait a minute this looks familiar... Yes it’s a rebadged Fiat Strada. Sold under the Ram brand in Mexico. Yeah it’s hard to imagine this and a 1500 in the same dealership isn’t it. Now aside from the base model especially looking like the least manly pickup in the world, sold under the manliest truck company in the world, it also looks hard to believe as a Ram, because it doesn’t have the iconic Ram crosshairs.
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Dat wonky shopped licence plate tho
Although the older version was an Opel Corsa C, the newer one is the pickup version of the Chevrolet Agile. Apparently still based on the Corsa pllatform. The Agile was killed but the pickup version continues.
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Remember the Ford Festiva? Well it still lives in Iran! And it’s got a pickup version! 1 of 3 pickups built and sold only in Iran, this one by a company called SAIPA. Apparently SAIPAs make up around 40% of cars in Iran, and I hope a good fraction are of the pickup.
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Would you believe it if I told you this is the newest vehicle here? Another Iranian company called Iran Khodro still makes brand new !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and in 2015, they introduced a pickup based on it, although under their own IKCO branding.
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The original. The regular version is the top photo.
May be Renault badged, but is really a last gen Dacia Logan Pickup. Selling Dacias as a budget brand isn’t exactly a good idea in areas where most of your customers can’t afford a regular Renault, so Renault badges it is. These used to be sold everywhere, but now they’re only built and sold in one country, you guessed it Iran. They’re sold as an official Renault, but they’re built by Renault Pars, a partnership between...our friends Iran Khodro and SAIPA. Iran’s car industry are close. In fact, those 2 companies and pretty much every single Iranian company to do with automotive manufacturing are owned by one massive !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
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Well, as a Renault it’s an Iranian exclusive, but in South America it’s available as a Nissan. And unlike the Ram, they did a semi decent job at designing the Nissan corporate grille on. Nissan kinda has a thing for outdated pickups don’t they?
So that’s all the ones I could find. I really hope there are more somewhere, but consumers need for excess means that demand for this niche is all but zero in many places.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 13:00 |
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#Savetheutes
HammerheadFistpunch
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 13:06 |
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I mean...you say they are endangered but thats twice as many as US midsized trucks. Tacoma/Colorado/Frontier/(soon)Ranger.
Even all in there are only a few more
triton, bt50, amarok, dmax, etc
Svend
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 13:32 |
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B est one was the Skoda Felicia Fun.
Two door, two seat pickup that converts into a two door four seat pickup with a movablerear bulkhead
Based on the Skoda Felicia.
Dasupersprint - base trim is enough
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 14:24 |
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Is the Fiat Toro car based? I know it’s not truck based
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Kar Wai Wong
> Dasupersprint - base trim is enough
06/22/2018 at 14:34 |
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I understand what you mean, but I’m specifically talking about like pickups based off small cars, not necessarily unibodys. I t’s an uncertain line I know.
Umm. small and is basically hatchback with a bed. There that’s the criteria. I think.
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Kar Wai Wong
> HammerheadFistpunch
06/22/2018 at 14:39 |
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Ah but how many utes c ar based pickups are sold in the US, Europe and Australia? None.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 15:30 |
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I think the only one of those where the base car came in a hot version is the Corsa. So a Montana VXR would be as close as we could get now to a Maloo.
Sad!!!
M.T. Blake
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 15:34 |
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We need more of these. I’ve considered building a Smyth VW kit for several years.
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Kar Wai Wong
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/22/2018 at 17:18 |
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The Mon tana ? Th e original was more Co rsa, but I think it’s still the same dated platform.
VW has the Pepper range in Brazil, which is basically the make your car look like a GTI package.
Probenja
> Kar Wai Wong
06/22/2018 at 19:42 |
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Japan has the whole “Deckvan” thing going still today.
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Kar Wai Wong
> Probenja
06/23/2018 at 03:54 |
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Oooh nice! I knew about them but I totally forgot that they counted.
Also what’s the point of making a pickup version, when the bed is that tiny? H ow is anyone supposed to carry anything in that tiny bed?