16 April

‘Ute Man’ is dying. We’ve reached Peak Ute (love that term). It was Scott Morrison’s big tax concessions for utes that led to them exploding in sales. Now with efficiency standards coming for Australian cars (last in the world, with Russia), utes will be thousands of dollars more to buy. Also for those who doubt that the ute is mostly a tax-subsidised status symbol, you can see the stats in this story. Utes aren’t being used as work vehicles by most.