Planet Killing Utes: An Australian Love Affair 

My GQ patrol has a electric winch on it so therefore I claim it’s a hybrid

Happy Australia day boy's 🇦🇺

Happy Australia Day this was another great episode of Bench Torque

Bench Torque makes me laugh out loud more than anything. "I can't even read this I'm blind" 0.3 seconds of Korn haha I get all the clips. Happy Australia Day Luke & Geordie.

Firstly, sales are up because immigration is up, WAY UP! In fact, technically we’re in recession, but bulk immigration has kept the numbers up. Secondly, EV sales are up, I would suggest, because the government made them FBT exempt for leasing!

The funny thing is Australia has no say on where the car market heads as we don't make cars here.

How good was the korn-blind out take. Nice. Made my day.

Do we have to turn our air conditioners off this summer to charge these electric cars?😂

“You can get it eating a cow, matter of fact ….. “

Brilliant work guys. Almost spat out my coffee listening to the guy and his folding bike 😂

I didn't realise you guy's had a workshop, next time I need my indicator and tyre fluids changed I might come to you cos I think I'm getting ripped off by the guy's I'm taking it to at the moment 😂

that polestar would be sweet with a LS swap 🤔

Given what car manufacturers bring into Australia, there is not much in the way of a normal car anymore. Most offerings are SUV style or Ute wise 4 x 4. The manufacturers are pushing us in the direction we are going. Money wise, why pay 40k for a Corolla that that has limited cab room when you can buy a larger feeling vehicle for similar coin. And the Hybrid/ Electric bullshit makes no financial sense, you pay say 3k more for a Hybrid than a petrol, based on the average person driving 10-15k per year, it basically takes 3-5 years to get the extra paid up front back from a petrol car. Might make some people feel like they are doing the right thing, but most people with common sense know its not changing the outcome here in Aust.

Best automotive yarns on RU-vid. Cheers boys, happy Aussie day 🇦🇺 🍻

Have to agree. That Polestar 2 is a pretty decent car. Who the hell can afford 100k new car in this economy though? Looks like the old Dmax will live to fight another day.

Have you come across the news about the new Euro rating. Due for Australia. I think 2025. Think it is Euro 6

Beef and beer can't go wrong 👌 Happy Australia day to you both 🍻🍻

I love Bench Torque more than life itself. Keep up the good work, gents 🍻

Editing soo good 👌 as always 🤣 happy straya days !

"I DON'T NEED A FORD F150 THEREFORE NO ONE NEEDS AN F150" -These people make me weep for humanity.

Brilliant. Happy 🇦🇺 Australia day gents

Haven’t laughed that hard in a while fellas😂😂😂. Happy Australia Day👍

Totally cooking up a feed now. Leftover meat on a stick from Australia Day, chicken and beef but no VB sorry. I think a jug of mojitos is more suited to our Queensland weather. Cheers for the vid.

Straya Day Bench Torque... Yesssss

Eat some lamb and enjoy the smell of a Cummins diesel starting up in the morning! Happy fkn Australia Day 🇦🇺

Ha ha, you crazy Aussies rangas are sooo funny. I'm a vegan, drive a diesel truck and it rolls coal when I hammer it. My Misso drives an suv with a 6.4 gas V8 to drop the kids at soccer. I'm trying to get her and the kids to go vegan but whenever I cook they go out for burgers. I'm thinking of getting her an EV but she's put me on stoppage and when I told the kids they said, yeah-nah and called their mates and got their dad to drop them at school in his hellcat challenger, as a protest.

Here, instead of Utes, it's dominated by diesel SUV that was based on utes (Fortuner from Hilux, Pajero Sport from Triton) Not so much utes here since tax system is making owning them for personal use more difficult

Where is "Ryan McArdle" to come and tell us how good EV's and Hybrids are 🤣🤣🤣

Luke needs to try a Cape Grim scotch fillet..👌👌

Since the dual cabs are the most popular, they shouldn’t charge double on tolls, most aren’t commercially used

Diesels will always sell well if we are given no other options , if utes or 4wds offered a decent petrol option i would take it every day of the week.

Here in Port Macquarie, the Ford Ranger is a clear winner over any EVs 🤣😎

You've outdone yourselves again gentlemen.

That Blind reference had me lollllll!

My favourite part was throwing in the korn blind intro

Missing some chips, fried egg, rasher of bacon & blue cheese mushroom sauce 👌

Well played as usual guys. Very excellent

Korn - Blind lmao. Great cutaway meme

Does VB stand for Vegan Beer ?? Just asking for a mate.

Own a car you like, dont buy what you get told is expected of you. The car company wants you to buy their cheapest model to make, so they can drive up demand and inflate the price. 2 years later youll be sick of it and be back buying thier latest heap of crap.

Just wait until the government adds $10 per hundred kays travelled to all evs at rego time for the lost revenue from fuel. We will see how good electric cars are.

My cars are all hybrid diesels. There's 40 watts of solar going in on a sunny day

I am a chippy and a farmer I live 4 hrs from the nearest electric train I have a 13 yr old diesel bt50 It does it’s job day in day out carrying tools and materials,hay and stock feed , by now if it was electric it would be up for a new battery = say $40000 + how much energy and carbon to make it

1st. Love these vdeos Luke, hey from Germany 🤙

0:47 my dinners every night lol

Horses are the way of future !

With the state of the roads you need a 4x4 just to get from A to B 😩

My xr6 turbo has a battery cos I care about the environment

Liebherr are going down the hydrogen route and that’s more practical in my opinion, as long as the conversions are priced accordingly. In saying that I’m still not happy about forking out more dough to convert my DIESEL Patrol to keep Greta Thunberg happy!

Oh stop it please youre killing me! 😂😂😂

I hired a Camry hybrid last year on my only holiday for years and I really liked it To the point it was fun to drive trying to better my fuel economy each time I got in it This would be the only battery car I would even think about buying But fulll electric nope no way narda 😂😂

The Monash uni grind my gears. The constant cash for comment studies. Wave enough money in their face and they’ll release a study in your favour.

Keep up the piss take. Love it 🤘

these episodes just keep getting funnier and funnier anyone offended by jokes is a moron, being offended by something is entirely your own choice, and its just humour so get over yourselves

I'm doing my part for the environment, picked up my y62 patrol yesterday.

I start laughing before the video even starts because I know its going to be hilarious

Given how many EVs are being sold, and the market take up increasing we should be well on the way to solving the climate change now, shouldn't be an issue much longer. 😂😂

Awesome 😂😂

I have a Fullboost sticker on my Toyota Aqua Hybrid. Sorry not sorry.

The LC 300 does come with a 3.5v6 TT but toyota aust only have the diesel, i think more people would choose a petrol if they could 🤷‍♂️ (idm being proven wrong if you can but i havent seen it)

No electronic cars, not now or ever..

If you have to tow 3 tonnes or more what else are you going to buy outside of the diesel Ute / SUV class ? Silverado , F truck and Ram are much worse on fuel than the diesel 4 cylinder utes.

meanwhile in the USA…..7litre Trucks?

Y62 iykyk😂

Nice steak mate 😂

What happened to the F350?

Toyota are ahead of the curve not behind it. Let’s see how many EVs are being sold in 20 years

Updated vs Original GR Yaris, any thoughts fellas? Happy AUS day!!!

I know this is irrelevant to the subjects but What I find funny is half the ev sedan and soft roaders weigh the same as a ranger or hilux so if them bastards hit you in a crash they all cause just as damage to a ice soft roader/sedan as a daul cab might do

Some serious cookers in the world sadly only getting worse

I have a 2018 Landcruiser 200series and I love it!!!!!!!! Happy Australia Day.

I dont get the dirty diesel thing, they are way more efficient than petrol, especially since they have egr and dpf, be awesome with hybrid

Mmm steak

Slap on a snag and a steak for me.."😊

I laugh when ever I hear people talking about doing their bit for the environment with ev's and that we all need to start buying them. The manganese mine I live near uses on average 8million litres of diesel per month and it's a relatively small mine. Imagine how much is being used just in the mines in Australia. You and you ev aren't helping the environment one little bit.

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Skull skull skull

Luke is not a real good bogan , no mullet 😂😂😂

You guys are missing something here.....more EVs means less petrol sales...less petrol sales means lower demand ...lower demand means lower petrol prices for me to drive my 5ltr commy, which by the way gets 10.3 ltrs per 100 klms better than your yank tank. Think about it🤔

After 15 minutes that steak will be cold. Eeewww.

Trees love carbon, Use diesel and petrol, Reject slavery

These vegans wouldn't want to see what my 96t truck uses diesel wise haha

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😂😂😂😂

ev cars are like vegan burgers (junk)

Diesel is a bi product of petrol how has it become the dearest fuel bcos of this climate change rout

It looks like you were struggling to eat that steak, over cooked or feeling guilty??

HAPPY CHINESIUM DAY 🇦🇺 made in China

You haven't explored the REASON the top three selling vehicles are dual cab utes. Luxury vehicle tax / capital gains tax for company vehicles / self employed people / fleet sales. These vehicles are basically from a company point the most lean on tax for everyone and they hold their value fairly well in the commercial vehicle / 4x4 range while saturated hold well if Toyota etc. All massive draws for accounting. It's not because everyone WANTS to drive these cars, but packaged company vehicles are always dual cab utes because tax reasons for company and employee alike. We also became a dumping ground for worst emissions vehicles in the developed world under the last decade of Fed Lib gov. So we got the lowest tech, high emission diesel engines in the world because we were only of the only developed world markets that allowed them. Particularly high sulfur diesel content engines. Braindead pseudo 'car journalism' .... what you're just providing 'fan service' to your audience who love a good circle jerk about 'hur hur EV bad... Diesel / Petrol GOOD' without actually looking at the trending market share and shifting projections and new technologies being leveraged. Legislation is what is going to get you eventually. Like not being able to drive your diesel bro-dozer into the CBD / City congested areas without paying a emissions / congestion charge. Paying aggressively more and more at the pump for diesel / petrol. Plus with solar rooftop penetration in Australia, why wouldn't you be going for $1 for 100km redirected solar feed in tarrif to car ? Sure, super chargers / high speed travel chargers are expensive (similar price to petrol currently) but feed in solar at home for daily commute to work and back low distance is basically free if you can afford the expenditure on an EV and you don't regularly drive more than 150km from home on round trips... as they become cheaper will be a no brainer for a lot of people for a cheap daily for a lot of cases. Company vehicle / contractor vehicle sales / fleet sales and most importantly to the bean counters TAX laws define what sells well. In the USA Massive 'Trucks' like the F-150 or bigger / RAM 1500 or bigger are AGAIN the best sellers because they are exempt from emissions requirements of (cars) to skirt emissions and fuel economy requirements across the board since they are 'Work vehicles for trucks' despite being mostly luxury equipped raised bro-dozers with chrome wheels. Cause and effect, Regulation and loophole. Keep up the entertainment, but let's not pretend you know anything about what drives the market share and sales.

Rolling coal

I'm one of the stereo types unfortunately owning a Next Gen Wildtrak 🫣😂. They just tick a lot of boxes for a typical family who doesn't live in the inner city. We use it for everything, it needs to fill a wide range of roles a hatch back or sedan simply doesn't offer. I've actually done a few videos on my own YT channel and it's amazing how many views it's received organically compared to our other content so it's quite an interesting space. On the EV front, we live near a Tesla charging station on the Pacific Highway, north of Sydney. It's amazing how many are now on the road, to a point that during the holiday peak periods you now have soo many lining up and waiting to charge. That to me would be annoying and demonstrates we can't have a boom of EVs taking over the market, the infrastructure if you aren't charging at home or work simply isn't in place to make this all work. All that said, if I was just commuting from A to B and didn't have to rely on a charging network, I probably would consider an EV as a daily however 👍