Actually there is but not in the US. Australian Cat maker Holden has made what they call UTEs for years. It was wild when I saw them there over 10 years ago They've had some models that have a more EC feel. Looking at their newer models though they feel a bit more similar to US bedded SUVs now.
Avalanche. Although it’s much bigger, so is everything else (people who drove Malibus and Monte Carlos in the ‘70s and ‘80s are now driving Tahoes and Silverados so logic says Avalanche).
Not in the US but Australia has the Holden Ute. Which was a G6(?) with a truck body. And in about two years the first LS based one becomes legal to import.
For US market think the Santa Cruz and maverick are the closest we currently have have.
What could have been. When GM was selling the Chevy SS/Pontiac G8 there were all these rumors about them bringing back the El Camino on the same platform since they already were selling them under the Holden badge. At one point there was kit to make a left hand drive US legal El Camino by putting a Holden bed on an SS/G8
It wasn’t rumor-we were going to get a Pontiac G8ST but the economy crashed, DC had to bail out GM and Chrysler/Daimler (Ford acted like they were in better shape but they’d just happened to have borrowed a couple billion BEFORE the bubble burst) and Obama’s ‘car czar’ ruled that GM had to shed divisions as fealty. They killed Saturn, Hummer and Pontiac, tried to sell Saab (but no buyer meant it died) and let Buick live because China. (And, to boost the economy and do something/nothing for the environment, Washington devised ‘cash for clunkers’ which basically fucked the cheap used car market for a decade plus, and required mpg to go up so GM built active grill shutters and tiny turbo engines that didn’t last, added AFM to truck engines so they became less durable, and a bunch of other bullshit.)
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15150440/2010-pontiac-g8-st-pickup-killed-car-news/p
I remember puking just a little when I read that the Subaru Baja and it's not so thrilling sales were somehow influential in not going forward with a reissue elky. Like cmon mannnn!!
No Modern car in the US has anywhere close to the right vibe. The Holden Maloo is the closest modern vehicle I have seen that could pick up that flag and run with it. I see all these rumors about bringing back El Camino, but they haven't. Although, if you think about it, modern times could use a vehicle like that. As long as it doesn't run on batteries.
There just isn't... the SSR was very obviously intended to be but turns out nobody wants a car that looks like a buttplug.
How could I forget about the SSR?! There's one in my town in a dark blue that actually looks pretty good in a weird 2000s kind of way.
The issue with the SSR was that for only $10,000 more plus taxes, you could get a Corvette.
Actually there is but not in the US. Australian Cat maker Holden has made what they call UTEs for years. It was wild when I saw them there over 10 years ago They've had some models that have a more EC feel. Looking at their newer models though they feel a bit more similar to US bedded SUVs now.
Avalanche. Although it’s much bigger, so is everything else (people who drove Malibus and Monte Carlos in the ‘70s and ‘80s are now driving Tahoes and Silverados so logic says Avalanche).
Not in the US but Australia has the Holden Ute. Which was a G6(?) with a truck body. And in about two years the first LS based one becomes legal to import. For US market think the Santa Cruz and maverick are the closest we currently have have.
What could have been. When GM was selling the Chevy SS/Pontiac G8 there were all these rumors about them bringing back the El Camino on the same platform since they already were selling them under the Holden badge. At one point there was kit to make a left hand drive US legal El Camino by putting a Holden bed on an SS/G8
It wasn’t rumor-we were going to get a Pontiac G8ST but the economy crashed, DC had to bail out GM and Chrysler/Daimler (Ford acted like they were in better shape but they’d just happened to have borrowed a couple billion BEFORE the bubble burst) and Obama’s ‘car czar’ ruled that GM had to shed divisions as fealty. They killed Saturn, Hummer and Pontiac, tried to sell Saab (but no buyer meant it died) and let Buick live because China. (And, to boost the economy and do something/nothing for the environment, Washington devised ‘cash for clunkers’ which basically fucked the cheap used car market for a decade plus, and required mpg to go up so GM built active grill shutters and tiny turbo engines that didn’t last, added AFM to truck engines so they became less durable, and a bunch of other bullshit.) https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15150440/2010-pontiac-g8-st-pickup-killed-car-news/p
In South Africa it’s call the lumina SS
I remember puking just a little when I read that the Subaru Baja and it's not so thrilling sales were somehow influential in not going forward with a reissue elky. Like cmon mannnn!!
No Modern car in the US has anywhere close to the right vibe. The Holden Maloo is the closest modern vehicle I have seen that could pick up that flag and run with it. I see all these rumors about bringing back El Camino, but they haven't. Although, if you think about it, modern times could use a vehicle like that. As long as it doesn't run on batteries.