Part of the production increase can be attributed to the Pontiac G8's impending arrival, but there have been cagey references to importing the VE Ute, which shares the VE platform with the G8.

When Bob Lutz returned as Vice Chairman of Product Development at General Motors in 2001, he had big plans for Pontiac, including a product America hadn’t seen since the late 1980s: A Ute.

For those of you interested in picking up one of the new Pontiac G8 ST utes when they come to the US next year there's good news. In a recent round of ute/pickup crash testing in Australia ...

As America's first relatively popular dedicated ute in over a decade ... It easily outsold the Ranchero, enough that Pontiac dabbled in the idea itself. It wasn't Chevrolet's first truck, and ...