Hyundai Oz have been trying to convince Hyundai’s Head Office to make a commercial utility for a decade or more...without any luck.

It was already dead. So why concern ourselves with what was done to the body?

Your sense of self is just too strong for me.

Simple answer is yes. I don’t think the gas engine is even offered in Australia. Duramax 2 all the way with 147kW and 500Nm (if you get the auto - 6 speed stick gets 440Nm). Fuel economy is quoted at 7.9L/100km combined for the 4x4 versions.

A machine that provides personal transportation. Everything else is either an optional or a personal accoutrement

Cars are the only machines that are anthropomorphic.

Moke is still vapourware. And if being manufactured by Chery (the clowns behind some of the worst Chinese cars on Western markets) then I shudder at the thought.

Given the current pricing structures and production capacity for Toyota, VW and other makers so-called mini trucks (they’re just utes to us!) I suspect that it is unlikely that North America will see Hilux, Amarok, Navara etc etc anytime soon. And even when they get there they won’t be as cheap as the F150 or…

I sense a problem.

I had much the same engine in a Land Rover Series 3...it had been stroked out form 3.5 to 4.7L. And there’s quite a few specialists down this way who know have to get way too much out of them...certainly way too much for this winning little machine!!

When you boil it all down there are just two types of car owners: those for whom a car is an appliance and those for whom a car is ‘something important’.

The sadness in me comes from the fact that, post auction, this Land Rover will forever sit in a shed, only ever to be released every other leap year at Land Rover heritage events, never to taste the freedom of the open landscape like its older siblings...

Yes and no. Agree that the Defender platform doesn’t go back as far as 68 years but you know as well as I do that there’s not much difference, dimension wise and body attachment points, between a Series 3 and a Defender chassis apart from the suspension...so how about we say 44 years?

Changed my mind...now I reckon we should low rider it. And get it to bounce down the road!

Wonder if we could get it to drift?

Three options for Toyota’s consideration...

In which case...why not buy a van?

The bed is no issue since these things come with a chassis option that stretches to 8.5 metres. It’s my misguided assumption that one would want the cab behind the engine...doh!

Can I now nominate Graham Norton as a co-host?

Making a basic pickup from this platform just isn’t going to happen...they have absolutely nothing in common from an engineering perspective. More useful might be to derate the suspension somewhat, fit a taller ratio gearbox and suspension seats as standard. If punters can’t get their heads around the cab over concept…