rough around the edges, our 2003 Volkswagen Jetta is back on the road in its new ute form thanks to the Smyth Performance kit. I’ve taken a break from working on it and have been enjoying driving it ...

The ute might have faded from our roads long ago, but Australians are still fans of this laid-back body style even though the market is rapidly turning to American-style pickup trucks. Ute production ...

After recovering from my colossal screw-up on the back window, the rear window surrounding was ready to install on our VW Jetta that we’ve been converting into a Smyth Performance Ute. This fiberglass ...

Volkswagen has been thinking about bringing a compact pickup truck to the U.S., and it might want to hurry up. Custom car body outfit Smyth Performance has unveiled a conversion kit to turn a VW New ...

When it arrives it will be the only six-cylinder in the segment with the majority - including the class leading Toyota HiLux - utilising four-cylinders, and the popular Ford Ranger and Mazda BT-50s ...

Inexpensive, small pickup trucks used to be everywhere in the US, whether they were from Japanese brands like Datsun or Toyota, the truly weird Subaru Brat or even from Europe with the Volkswagen ...

Volkswagen has released details of its first ute, a car it believes will strengthen its position in Australia by enabling it to compete in one of the biggest and fastest-growing segments in the market ...

Two former Volkswagen interns, Valentin Fuchs and Pierre Joveneaux, have designed an intriguing ute specifically for use in Australia. Dubbed the Volkswagen Varok, the model takes design inspiration ...

The Cannon XSR is GWM’s new top-shelf ute variant. You might call it six degrees of Kombi separation. Somewhere, somehow just about all of us have a VW bus lurking ...

Volkswagen AG, Europe’s largest carmaker, said it would build an off-road sport-utility vehicle with Stuttgart-based Porsche AG. VW said it plans an annual production of 100,000 cars. Teams in ...

In the movie “Freaky Friday,” Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis played a mother and daughter who — via a magical fortune cookie — switched bodies. Confusion ensued. Kind of like the shapely, athletic ...

The Cannon XSR is GWM’s new top-shelf ute variant. It comes in a single GTX trim for now, taking aim at some of the more performance-oriented EV SUVs on the Australian market, of which there are now ...