Best Dual cab Utes according to our specialists

Ford Ranger 

The Ford Ranger line-up has expanded to include another limited-run Wildtrak X variant, which adds a touch of additional pack over the standard Wildtrak. It looks like it, yet how can it handle hard work? 

The most honed deal we could find on a Ford Ranger double cab was a 4×2 2.2-liter XL programmed from $36,490 drive-away. 

This Ranger ($27,690 excluding on-road and plate costs) has a claimed fuel utilization of 6.5L/100km and a 80-liter fuel tank. 

It has a 2.2-liter four-cylinder turbo-diesel motor (118kW/385Nm), matched to a six-speed manual gearbox. 

It has a kerb weight of 1659kg, a payload of 1265kg and a max braked towing limit of 2500kg. 

Official dimensions and fitment expenses of the combination plate (a provider branded extra) were inaccessible yet expected the load space to be more than 2500mm long, 1800mm wide and about 255mm deep. 

Inside this Ranger is essential and work-ready, with hard-wearing plastic surfaces and vinyl floor covers, yet there are some decent highlights including a 4.2-inch shading multi-work display, AUX/USB/iPod joining, journey control with guiding wheel-mounted catches, two 12 volt attachments and more. 

It has a three-year/100,000km guarantee with administration interims scheduled at a year/20,000km. A three-year/24-hour roadside help program is accessible. 

This Ranger is a solid nearness and a hard specialist. 

Mitsubishi Triton  — Dual cab Utes

This Triton, at $25,990 (excluding on-road and plate costs), has a claimed fuel utilization of 7.0L/100km and a 75-liter fuel tank. 

It has a 2.4-liter four-cylinder turbo-diesel motor (133kW/430Nm) and a six-speed manual gearbox. 

Its kerb weight is 1555kg, a payload of 1165kg and a maximum towing limit of 2500kg (braked). 

The plate (no additional cost, fitted) is one of the shorter and smaller ones in this crowd at 2430mm long, 1770mm wide, and 255 deep – yet even it will take two standard beds. 

We as of late spent a working week in Mitsubishi’s a la mode premium-grade Triton to perceive how it has the right stuff in the top notch ute showcase. 

The Mitsubishi Triton remains the worth lord in the sub-$40,000 value section, nonetheless, with a few choices from $34,990 drive-away to $39,990 drive-away, depending on whether you need the GLX tradie pack double cab 4×4 with steel wheels (pictured beneath), a similar model with the discretionary security pack, or the GLX+ which increases composites, side advances, Apple Car Play, and comes standard with advanced wellbeing. 

The inside is essential – material trim, vinyl floor – yet standard apparatus includes a 6.1-inch touchscreen, tilt and adaptive controlling, directing wheel-mounted controls (audio, telephone, voice, voyage), electric windows, aircon, one 12 volt attachment, a USB port, and more. 

Beyond fuel-cost reserve funds, 4×2 utes are commonly less expensive to claim and work compared to their heavier partners. 

The Triton has a five-year/100,000km guarantee with four-year roadside help accessible. Capped value overhauling is scheduled for at regular intervals/15,000km more than three years. 

Fundamental, workmanlike and extremely engaging. 

And on the off chance that progressing running expenses are your primary consideration, at that point it shows up the Mitsubishi Triton is the ute for you. 

The Mitsubishi Triton has quite recently been named the most modest ute to claim and run in the Queensland motoring clubs yearly Driving Your Dollars review. 

The Mitsubishi contestant is beating both the 2WD and 4WD classification (as observed beneath) and completing admirably ahead of adversaries from Isuzu, Nissan, Ford, Holden and Toyota. 

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter   — Dual cab Utes

On the business side of the Mercedes-Benz business, another Sprinter van is talked about in a similar revered tone as another S-Class.

Ssangyong Musso   — Dual cab Utes

You’ll find all our Ssangyong Musso audits directly here. Ssangyong Musso costs run from $30,490 for the Musso EX to $39,990 for the Musso ULTIMATE. 

Our surveys offer detailed examination of the Musso’s highlights, design, common sense, fuel utilization, motor and transmission, security, possession and what it resembles to drive. 

The latest audits sit up the highest point of the page, however in case you’re searching for an older model year or looking for a used vehicle, look down to find Ssangyong Musso dating back similar to 2004. 

The SsangYong Musso XLV has arrived to offer purchasers much more incentive for their cash. The new, longer form of the Musso ute adds an additional foot of plate space, yet observes the decision of a leaf-spring back suspension or the current curl spring arrangement. 

Nissan Navara   — Dual cab Utes

Single cab, cab suspension 4×2 utes are straightforward vehicles fabricated explicitly for work. They have close to no nonsense, and their plate (generally an additional expense) are long. They’re lighter than 4×4 models on the grounds that there’s no 4WD transmission, or extra diff or pivot stuff. And the lighter a vehicle is, as a rule, the less fuel it should utilize. 

This Navara D23 Series 2 cab frame ($25,990 excluding on-road and plate costs) has a claimed fuel utilization of 6.4L/100km and a 80-liter tank. 

It has a 2.3-liter four-cylinder single turbo-diesel motor (120kW/403Nm), mated with a six-speed manual gearbox. 

It has a control weight of 1551kg, a payload of 1359kg and a maximum towing limit of 3500kg (braked). 

The Navara is Nissan’s entrance into the fervently contested Australian ute advertise. With Toyota’s HiLux and Ford’s Ranger arm-wrestling for the leadership position. 

The Nissan Navara SL double cab 4×4 is accessible to ABN holders for $37,990 drive-away with manual transmission and $40,490 drive-away with auto, yet make certain to wrangle as dealers are having a red-hot go in the lead up to March, the end of the Japanese monetary year. 

Since single cabs are so light, compared to extra and dual cabs, they are not renowned for their ride comfort; suspension tends towards the firm and bumpier side of things, particularly when unladen. All things considered, in case you’re used to utes, it shouldn’t trouble you. 

Be that as it may, what you penance in ride and handling, you compensate for in load space. The plate (approx $2400 with fitment) is one of the greatest in this crowd at 2570mm long, 1840mm wide and 255mm deep. 

The inside is a hose-out style – material trim, vinyl floor – yet the standard hardware list is broad and includes aircon, MP3/iPod/CD audio framework (four speakers) and Bluetooth, three 12 volt attachments, USB port and significantly more. 

It has a three-year/100,000km guarantee with administration interims scheduled at a year/20,000km. A three-year/24-hour roadside help program is accessible. 

Getting anyplace close to those claimed fuel figures in reality might be a Mission Impossible, yet this Navara is as yet an extraordinary truck. 

ISUZU D-MAX   — Dual cab Utes

Isuzu has given its base model D-Max SX tradie pack the limited edition treatment, making the D-Max X-Rider. 

The Isuzu D-Max X-Rider (pictured underneath) still has vinyl flooring however gets a games bar, charcoal 16-inch amalgams off the D-Max LS-M instead of steel wheels, side molds and blacked-out window outlines. 

It costs from $39,990 drive-away for the six-speed manual; six-speed auto adds $2000, in spite of the fact that we are told by Isuzu dealers that clients won’t need to curve an arm to get the auto at the manual cost on the off chance that they ask pleasantly. 

In its new 2017 pretense, the D-Max stays old-school extreme however with another 3.0-liter turbocharged diesel motor (130kW/430Nm) – a donk that is decidedly truck-like – and with a six-speed manual gearbox, it’s for all intents and purposes relentless. 

The passage level SX single cab, cab suspension D-Max ($28,500 excluding on-road costs), has claimed fuel utilization of 7.2L/100km (combined). It has a 76-liter fuel tank. 

This D-Max has a kerb weight of 1601kg, a payload of 1249kg and a maximum towing limit of 2500kg (braked). 

Its plate (approx $2118, fitted) is one of the greatest on this rundown at 2570mm long, 1840mm wide and 255mm deep. 

The inside is particularly single cab an area – intense plastic surfaces, simple clean vinyl flooring and so forth – yet standard highlights include some decent contacts, including a calfskin wrapped controlling haggle 7.0-inch touchscreen (with USB and Bluetooth audio gushing). 

This D-Max has a five-year/130,000km guarantee with five-year roadside help. Capped value adjusting covers the initial five scheduled administrations. 

Proudly old school, yet with a renewed purpose for getting up in the morning, the D-Max is a damn good ute. 

TOYOTA HILUX   — Dual cab Utes

In the interim, the best value we could find on the Toyota HiLux double cab 4×4 was $43,990 drive-away for a Workmate (pictured underneath) powered by a 2.4-liter diesel (not the 2.8) with auto, dark steel haggles vinyl floor. That is the equivalent least expensive value this model grade of the present age HiLux has been since dispatch in mid-2015. 

This simple HiLux (from $26,832 with plate, excluding on-road costs) has a claimed fuel utilization of 7.7L/100km (combined); scarcely any single cab suspension models are prowling around this fuel figure, yet we’ve included the Toyota in light of its stone hard legacy. Reasonable? Who cares. 

It has a 2.4-liter four-cylinder turbo-diesel motor (110kW/343Nm), which never feels stressed, loaded or unloaded, and it has a five-speed manual gearbox and a 80-liter fuel tank. 

This HiLux has a kerb weight of 1570kg, a payload of 1240kg and a maximum towing limit of 2500kg (braked). 

Its ‘Toyota Genuine’ universally useful design composite plate (approx $1842, fitted) is 2400mm long, 1762mm wide and 255mm deep; there are somewhat wider and longer plate accessible. 

Inside is all place of work business with plastic touchpoints, texture seats and vinyl floor covers, however you do get Bluetooth, an audio framework, air con, voyage control, USB port, and a stack more apparatus. 

It has a three-year/100,000km guarantee. 

This HiLux isn’t glorious, and it’s not the best here, however it is famous, and it’s constantly a chuckle to watch armada purchasers get all damp with sweat around a Toyota.