Deputy News Editor
Deputy News Editor
Australians love a good performance variant. We also love utes. You can probably see where I'm going with this.
We love both these things so much we're one of the highest per-capita consumers of performance variants in the world, and utes frequently vie for top spot in our highly competitive market.
Since the demise of local manufacturing, and thus the death of the car-based ute in Australia, on-road performance utes have given way to off-road-focused halo variants, most famously Ford's Ranger Raptor.
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