Utility four-wheelers, which Australians often call quad bikes, became the center of a national safety debate in the last year. When the dust settled, Honda, Yamaha, and Polaris had pulled out of the utility quad market, offering motorcycles and side-by-sides (SXS) instead.
The ATV is commonly called a four-wheeler in Australia, South Africa, parts of Canada, India and the United States.
-An all-terrain vehicle or ATV, also called a four-wheeler or quad bike, is a small off-road vehicle. ATVs are controlled via handlebars and have a straddle seat which usually only accommodates one rider. Most ATVs do not have built-in rollover protection.
The Aussie 'ute' explained.
THE ''ute'' is to Australians what the pickup is to Americans: a blue-collar icon and a symbol of rugged independence. Utes are integral to everyday existence in the bush -- and, increasingly, to life in the city. What's a ute?
Historically, the term "ute" (short for 'utility vehicle') has been used to describe a 2-door vehicle based on a passenger car chassis, such as the Holden Commodore, Australian Ford Falcon, Chevrolet El Camino and Subaru BRAT.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
Ute is an abbreviation for ' utility vehicle'. [Australian, informal]
The term road train is used in Australia. In contrast with a more common semi-trailer towing one trailer or semi-trailer, the prime mover of a road train hauls two or more trailers or semi-trailers.
Lorry is also common in Irish English. And while the word is not absent from Australian and New Zealand publications, it is less common than truck.
For the sake of semantics, all 4-wheelers are quads but not all quads are 4-wheelers, as some quads don't have four-wheel drive.
A quadracycle is a four-wheeled human-powered land vehicle. It is also referred to as a quadricycle, quadcycle, pedal car or four-wheeled bicycle amongst other terms.
A quad bike (also known as an all-terrain vehicle or ATV) is an off-road motorised vehicle that travels on four wheels, with a seat designed to be straddled by the operator and handlebars for steering control.
Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Polarisall have now all announced they will stop selling quad bikes in Australia from October next year due to new standards, which requires all quad bikes to be fitted with rollover protection at point of sale by October 2021.
Local Australian Uses
A campervan and a motorhome are interchangeable terms, that both refer to vehicles which can be driven and slept in. Both images on the right hand side are referred to as campervans (or motorhomes).
The Volkswagen Country Buggy is a small utility vehicle designed and built by Volkswagen in Australia. It used parts from the existing Type 1 and Type 2. Production ran from 1967 to 1968.
For instance, Australians will usually say 'soccer' instead of 'football' and 'overalls' instead of 'dungarees'. A 'lorry' is referred to as a 'truck' and the word 'pants' is used in place of 'trousers'.
A generic term
The answer is a semi truck or an 18-wheeler.
A road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer is often called a semi-trailer truck or "semi" in North America and Australia, and an articulated lorry or "artic" in the UK. Semi-trailers with two trailer units are called B-doubles (Australian English) or tandem tractor-trailers, tandem rigs, or doubles (American English).
Depends entirely on how one defines "useful." Ute is defined by Wikipedia as: "synonymous with "coupe utility" or "utility." In Australia and New Zealand, the word "ute" is used to describe vehicles with a tray in the back of the cabin ".
Hooroo = Goodbye
The Australian slang for goodbye is Hooroo and sometimes they even Cheerio like British people.
There are many features that the Ute offers such as its duality for being able to take on the cityscape and double up as a vehicle able to take on the rugged outback landscape. It offers comfort and ample spacing that has caused it to increase in popularity for Aussies.
The shoe known in Australia as a “thong” is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
A domestic fowl; a chicken. Chook comes from British dialect chuck(y) 'a chicken; a fowl' which is a variant of chick. Chook is the common term for the live bird, although chook raffles, held in Australian clubs and pubs, have ready-to-cook chooks as prizes.