Back in 2008, PGA Tour golfer Stuart Appleby had his E39 BMW M5 turned into a ute by Australian custom shop Southern Rod. Appleby has a deep-seated love of utes from his childhood on an Australian ...

The ute formula spread around the world ... the Armstrong Siddely Whitley 18 featured a variation with a barely-there truck ...

A standard tailgate goes on the back, and fiberglass body panels match both the bed and the lines of the original car. Mark Smith designs the look of the BMW E39 ute while the Audi B6 prototype ...

Or how about this Chevrolet Camaro Ute? It looks pretty rad and is a modern take on the classic El Camino. It's a muscle pickup for the drag strip with a long bed to haul an engine and car parts in.

There are some crazy modern trucks on the market these days, with roomy interiors, luxurious appointments, and the kind of ...

The earliest Falcon Ute you can import is from 1996 ... making this a two-door with a crew cab and an extremely short bed. Brazil has always been big on diesel, so naturally these were available ...

Now imagine the Air as a ute. It would be awesome ... I bet Lucid's engineers would come up with some cool storage solutions in the bed, and it would surely look gorgeous. I'll throw it over ...