WHAT PRICE YOUR NEW UTE?
May 24, 2021
4 minutes
STORY BY ROSS MACKAY,
MARK BAKER
AND SEAN WILLMOT.
PHOTOS BY MARK BAKER
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Well, what a difference a year, or two as it turned out, makes!’
The last time we ‘went to market’ as it were, for our yearly ‘state of the nation’ look-see at the ‘ute’ sector (which officially is called Light Commercial and broken down into 2 and 4WD subsections), it was the end of April 2019 and myself and my regular co-conspirators, Sean Wilmot and Mark Baker, spent a long (albeit revealing) day on the Coromandel Peninsula comparing and contrasting Mitsubishi’s then boldly restyled Triton VRX auto (the price leader at $49,990 + ORC) with a contemporary Toyota Hilux SR5 Cruiser (auto) with a no-more-to-pay price
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