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You wonder how the marketing people in the motor industry come up with new model names.

The Amarok 'Aventura' model will hit New Zealand at the end of the year and ought to make it onto the big 'must have' list.

Utes or pick-ups, as they are known in the northern hemisphere, don't have the following they have in these southern climes...

When it comes to four wheel drives the ubiquitous Toyota Land Cruiser has been around for 60 years, and the Prado variant for the last twenty.

It wouldn't be speaking out of turn to call the Toyota Hi-Lux New Zealand's favourite ute.

Large passenger vehicles seem to have gone out of favour as the march of the once humble ute seems to move on into suburbia as the macho mover and shaker.

Large passenger vehicles seem to lost favour in suburbia, giving way to utes as the macho movers and shakers. 

BEST BARS Ltd makes alloy decks for most 1-tonne ute models carrying heavy loads.