Light-duty truck with an enclosed cab and an open cargo area

Pickup truck

Pickup truck

A pickup truck or pickup is a <a href="/en/Truck_classification#Light_duty" title="Truck classification" class="wl">light-duty truck</a> that has an enclosed <a href="/en/Cabin_(truck)" title="Cabin (truck)" class="mw-redirect wl">cabin</a>, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (this cargo bed back end sometimes consists of a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tailgate" title="wikt:tailgate" class="extiw" target="_blank">tailgate</a> and removable covering).<a href="#cite_note-def1-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a> In <a href="/en/Australia" title="Australia" class="wl">Australia</a> and <a href="/en/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand" class="wl">New Zealand</a>, both pickups and <a href="/en/Coupé_utility" title="Coupé utility" class="wl">coupé utilities</a> are called <a href="/en/Ute_(vehicle)" title="Ute (vehicle)" class="wl">utes</a>, short for <a href="/en/Utility_vehicle" title="Utility vehicle" class="wl">utility vehicle</a>. In <a href="/en/South_Africa" title="South Africa" class="wl">South Africa</a>, people of all language groups use the term bakkie, a diminutive of bak, <a href="/en/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans" class="wl">Afrikaans</a> for "basket".

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Once a work or farming tool with few creature comforts, in the 1950s U.S. consumers began purchasing pickups for lifestyle reasons, and by the 1990s, less than 15% of owners reported use in work as the pickup truck's primary purpose.<a href="#cite_note-mueller-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;">[2]</a> In North America, the pickup is mostly used as a <a href="/en/Car" title="Car" class="wl">passenger car</a><a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;">[3]</a> and accounts for about 18% of total vehicles sold in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;">[4]</a> Full-sized pickups and <a href="/en/SUV" title="SUV" class="wl">SUVs</a> are an important source of revenue for major car manufacturers such as <a href="/en/General_Motors_Corporation" title="General Motors Corporation" class="mw-redirect wl">GM</a>, <a href="/en/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company" class="wl">Ford</a>, and <a href="/en/Stellantis" title="Stellantis" class="wl">Stellantis</a>'s <a href="/en/Ram_Trucks" title="Ram Trucks" class="wl">Ram Trucks</a> Division, accounting for more than two-thirds of their global pretax earnings, though they make up just 16% of North American vehicle production. These vehicles have a high <a href="/en/Profit_margin" title="Profit margin" class="wl">profit margin</a> and a high price tag; in 2018, Kelley Blue Book cited an average cost (including optional features) of US$47,174 for a new Ford F-150.<a href="#cite_note-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;">[5]</a>

The term pickup is of unknown origin. It was used by <a href="/en/Studebaker_M-series_truck" title="Studebaker M-series truck" class="wl">Studebaker</a> in 1913 and by the 1930s, "pick-up" (hyphenated) had become the standard term.<a href="#cite_note-zuehlke-6" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;">[6]</a>[<a href="/en/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources" class="wl">unreliable source</a>]

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A pickup truck or pickup is a light-duty truck that has an enclosed cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof . In Australia and New Zealand, both pickups and coupé utilities are called utes, short for utility vehicle. In South Africa, people of all language groups use the term bakkie, a diminutive of bak, Afrikaans for "basket". Once a work or farming tool with few creature comforts, in the 1950s U.S. consumers began purchasing pickups for lifestyle reasons, and by the 1990s, less than 15% of owners reported use in work as the pickup truck's primary purpose. The term pickup is of unknown origin. It was used by Studebaker in 1913 and by the 1930s, "pick-up" had become the standard term. 