{"id":1536,"date":"2012-02-28T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T04:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:49:49","slug":"beaut-little-utes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/beaut-little-utes\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaut Little Utes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to rising fuel costs, we\u2019re seeing a greater shift to smaller engines and smaller cars.\u00a0 The chances of some of the more unusual offerings, in small-ute form, might be a realistic option for Australian buyers.\u00a0 In the modern requirements for smaller carbon footprints, a small ute is what every business in Australia could do with.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n

Smaller utes\/pick-up trucks are doing very well in one or two places in the world.\u00a0 South America has seen a great success in people buying into a little ute – as their benefits have a growing appeal.\u00a0 Europe is shortly to test the introduction of the Fiat Strada \u2013 a very cool mini ute that is surprisingly handy and exceptionally rugged.<\/p>\n

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The Fiat Strada has had years of success in South America, and Fiat wants to export the Strada ute into other overseas markets.\u00a0 It is built in South America, and Italy want to bring the little ute to Italy for its own people to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Other small trucks, like the Fiat <\/a>Strada, are very popular in South America.\u00a0 Peugeot <\/a>has a ute version of its 206 model, called the Peugeot Hoggar.\u00a0 The toughened up version of Peugeot\u2019s 206 Hatch is doing very well.\u00a0 So too, is GM\u2019s Chevrolet Montana.\u00a0 The Montana has miniature design cues found in the latest Toyota Hilux ute.<\/p>\n

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Amazingly, the Fiat Strada ute is Fiat\u2019s second-best selling light commercial unit worldwide, after Fiat\u2019s Ducato <\/a>van.\u00a0 So, who\u2019s using them?\u00a0 Florists, garden centres, wineries, the adventure holiday businesses and the farming sector.\u00a0 They may not take the same weights as the bigger Hilux and Navara utes but, then, most of the time they don\u2019t need to.\u00a0 They are proving very handy small pick-ups.<\/p>\n

The Fiat Strada ute offers a range of body types.\u00a0 You can have yourself a single cab, an extended single cab or a crew cab version.\u00a0 The Strada\u2019s payloads range from 630 kg to 705 kg.\u00a0 These are quite handy weights.\u00a0 I mean, at least 15 bags of cement can be stacked inside the high sided ute.\u00a0 Though front-wheel-drive, the Strada provides an electronic differential lock – so you can attack a good bit of off-road terrain, quite easily.<\/p>\n

Everybody is going to enjoy the benefits of a smaller ute\u2019s engine, like the one used in the Fiat Strada.\u00a0 The Fiat engine is a diesel engine that promises to be very frugal, indeed.\u00a0 It is rated for 5.3 litres\/100 km, on average.\u00a0 The 1.3-litre turbo-diesel is also grunty, offering 71 kW of peak power, and 200 Nm of torque that is available from as low as 1500 rpm.<\/p>\n

While you won\u2019t find the Fiat Strada, the Chevrolet Montana or the Peugeot Hoggar for sale in Australia, yet.\u00a0 It is their success overseas that might just be the catalyst for what the market in Australia needs.\u00a0 Low carbon emissions and frugal economy \u2026 now you can\u2019t argue with that.\u00a0 All that has to happen now is to build these utes in right-hand-drive format.\u00a0 I reckon they\u2019d sell like hot cakes over here. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/creditter-srochnye-zaymi-online.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to rising fuel costs, we\u2019re seeing a greater shift to smaller engines and smaller cars.\u00a0 The chances of some of the more unusual offerings, in small-ute form, might be a realistic option for Australian buyers.\u00a0 In the modern requirements for smaller carbon footprints, a small ute is what every business in Australia could do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}