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My step dad had an 87. Blue and boxy. Absolute beautiful rig and I’d give anything for him to still have it. Learned how to drive manual and 4x4 on that thing
Had an Isuzu in college. Sold it after getting married, starting a family, driving all over the US, with 292,000 miles. It used oil, but otherwise was a tank. My friends were constantly replacing suspension and steering parts on their Chevy and Fords. I just drove.
Ya it was a mess, guy driving the tractor trailer drove off like nothing happened. Tried to clean the glass/blood off the steel when he got to the drop off site.
It’s easier to talk about now, it’s been 9 years
I bought my 93 rodeo a year ago. Been having trouble with getting it above 2500 rpms on the highway. Last month it solved itself and i still dont know what the cause was. 200k miles and the thing is a fucking tank
Borrowed a car once that was only driven a couple of miles to work and back home every day. When I borrowed it and took it on the hwy it flat out wouldn't go. I thought I was going to get rear ended and couldn't wait for the next exit, but then it just started getting better and better. I believe it was carbon and it worked itself out.
Even their cars are tough as fuck. I used to have a 91 Corolla when I was a teenager. My buddies and I would neutral drop while rev bombing it, we'd jump it going 45mph, and race it through cornfields. After 2 years of driving like that it finally blew a head gasket at about 300k on the odo.
In high school my girlfriend didn't know she was supposed to change the oil in her 97 Camry. She put 85000 miles on it without ever changing the oil. It had over 215,000 miles when she bought it. She sold it for $400 at 300,000 miles.
They literally are treated that way by the UN. The UN have a hidden warehouse in Europe that stocks hundreds of Hilux ready to ship worldwide where UN needs them. There’s a video on YouTube about. Pretty cool stuff
My buddy Tim (RIP) had an Isuzu Hombre in high school. Single cab, 5 speed, no radio. We'd take that thing in ditches, over jumps, and it always just kept driving. He had a huge sticker on the back window of just the silhouette of a mustache and sombrero.
It was vice-versa. First Jeremy rammed it a bunch of times then let it sink in the sea. After it survived, he drove it through a wooden house, hit it with a demolition ball and threw a campervan on it. Because it survived, be burned it. And finally, James lift it on top of a skyscraper which was demolished. The car barely survived and was put on display in the studio.
Its been my oppinion that was the best advert toyota could have ever gotten and they have been producing terrible cars since, because it doesnt matter what they put out people just have that top gear bit stuck in their heads and think toyota means bulletproof
I had a 2003 Camry that I got sitting on the side of my uncles house for 3-4 years. Drove it from 154k to 236k miles and I: Got it up to 120mph, fit a 50gal water heater inside it, lit a brake on fire, drove it the entirety of my ownership with a CEL on, took it down a rally stage logging trail at up to 60mph, drove though a 18" snowfall blizzard... While pulling a trailer with a snowmobile on it, regularly towed a 2 place sea doo trailer (with 2 sea doos on it), and many many more things.
Fucker wouldn't die, sold it for $500 less than I paid for it after using it for 6 years. Only had to take it to the shop on 3 occasions which cost a total of $950 or so in repairs. I did regular maintenance myself.
Toyota is the most reliable vehicle brand in the world still to this day, you have no idea what you're talking about dude...
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Dude in my neighborhood has an original motor 87 Toyota pickup. It's on its second transmission though. But, it has 720k miles on it. He still gets offers all the damn time for it. Even just out getting gas, someone will throw 5-7k offers at him. He said he won't sell it until it's at a million miles.
I have a similar Toyota, looks good for it's age, SR5 V6, original everything with 4WD, all manual everything. It has dings, dents, scrapes. Not only do I get offers out in public, but I've had people leave notes on it while in my driveway, people have knocked on my door to ask if I'd sell it, and on top of it all, Some people don't take, "not for sale" as an answer. "20k. 25k. 30k. name your price. Take my name and number and call me whenever you are ready."
235k miles, so still pretty new I guess
When I met my wife she had a 1990 Toyota Pickup, manual, 22RE engine she bought off this old dude for like $1.8K.
My dumbass had her sell it when we got married so she could get a newer car. Had no idea the popularity. Luckily she sold it to someone who appreciated it and she sold it for what she paid. Dude prolly still has it. I have seen them go for $8-9K a few years ago
Dude is speaking about his personal Highlander.
Sure old Hiluxes are indestructible, but there are plenty other good Toyotas.
There is Land Cruisers J70 that is THE vehicle of choise of international NGOs (UN, Red Cross, etc.)for how all-terrain and low-maintenance they are.
RAV4s that ARE climbing mountains all over the world and need only a little push sometimes.
You could submerse Mark II in the water, get it out, let it dry and there'd be nothing broken. AC, radio, everything would function (probably while underwater too)
Plenty of Toyotas were built like a tank back then.
Apparently, the 2-CV has such a good suspension that it can be dropped from 500ft in the air and keep a dozen eggs perfectly safe!
(Yes, this is a GT moment)
The ones on Amazon from those companies that are just a bunch of random letters aren't nearly as great, ebay is the way for sure. Haven't tried Craigslist yet tho
From every red p plate bloke drinking a iced coffee with a dart hanging out to the old boy that pulls other people's cray pots on the weekdays.. everyone has a lux
The Hilux is a light truck and the Tacoma midsized. It stopped being imported to the US because back in the 90s we added huge terrifs on light trucks in a move to help American truck manufacturers regain market share.
Nope. We’re forced to participate in a market that capitalized in every instance it can. Americans are only allowed to buy giant vehicles that have no fuel regulations. All so they Dan keep making money off of us.
You certainly wouldn't lose money on that. Any Hilux imported here would demand a HUGE premium over what it's worth simply due to the incredibly limited number of Hiluxes here in the states.
The only passenger truck that has ever been driven to the North Pole. Driven by 2 out of shape, alcoholic, middle aged men with zero experience in arctic exploration.
Actually, you can. Easily.
> But while Clarkson painted their eventual victory over Hammond as a triumph for the automobile, Dr Stroud described their achievement as "laughable".
> Dr Stroud, who in 1993 joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes in becoming the first explorers to walk unaided across Antarctica, said: "This was a disturbing example of very misleading TV.
> "Where they went is 1,200 miles from the North Pole - that's 400-500 miles south of where expeditions to the true North Pole start.
> "The conditions you face when travelling to the North Pole bear no resemblance whatsoever to those you encounter when going to the North Magnetic Pole.
Exactly, what most people don't realise is that the North Pole episode was actually shot in a sound stage in Hounslow.
And Jeremy Clarkson isn't an actual bigot, he's played by a character actor called Marcus Ledsham-Maybury.
But, I guess most people are just easily fooled.
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I’ve always known them to be called just Toyota Truck. My coworker owns one and i still compliment her every time she drives it in. Thought they became T100s later? But yea these are amazing builds and to buy one nowadays is pretty expensive
It was called a "Toyota Truck" in North America, not kidding. It's from a time when it was literally the only Toyota truck. Then they came out with the T series as well so they replaced it with the Tacoma. But as others have said, it was known as the HiLux most everywhere else.
The 1986-1987 war between Chad and Libya is known as the [Toyota War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War) because The Chadians used 400 Toyota pickups given to them by France to quickly move in the desert and overran the superior Libyan army.
They learned if you run over a land mine at over 100miles an hour it wouldn’t set them off so they were able to just drive up on bases and do hit and run attacks. When I heard that the first time I thought about the stereotypical landscape of a war zone in Africa and thought there’s a stock vehicle that could just hit that terrain at 100mph, not even considering the bullet they were probably riddled with.
My dad worked for UN and tried to import an old Land Cruiser from Haiti to Canada but it would have cost like 50k just to ship it.
I’m sad I’ll never get to drive one.
If I recall that Top Gear episode, they let it on a ramp so the tide rise would cover it, but during the process the cables holding it broke and they had to look for it under water for several hours. It still worked...
ah the Holy Hilux, the vehicle that can survive through 3 sandstorms and consistent 40+ degrees Celsius weather and still be able to drive without any issues
Toyota in the 80's had the formula for vehicles that wouldn't die. They unfortunately quit doing that, bc it's hard to sell new cars when your customers don't need to replace the car they bought from you for 400K miles lol.
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Toyota has atleast 1 car in each country that is the most famous, like India has Invoa or Fortuner, Middle East has this truck, others are like Corolla, Supra and many more
I’ve had a few tacos over the years (currently an 08 sr5 with 250k on it since new) they are still great but not the beasts they were back in the 90s. I think my first was a 93 and that thing was nuts. My buddy recently got an new one and I’m in a position where I could upgrade but I’m dragging my feet because I’m not crazy on how they geared the transmissions on the current gen.
> I’m in a position where I could upgrade but I’m dragging my feet because I’m not crazy on how they geared the transmissions on the current gen.
Tacoma prices are insane right lately and with interest at ~7% for a new car you’re probably smart to drag your feet.
You have any rust issues with your ‘08? I’m in Minnesota and that era tend to fall apart.
My uncle had one of these when his house was completely obliterated by a tornado (we're talking entire house just GONE, all the way down to the foundation). When we went to his house to start clearing the wreckage, we found the truck 500 yards away from the garage it was parked in and down a hill. Despite looking almost exactly the truck in the last clip, it started up immediately, and we used it to haul wreckage for the entirety of the cleanup
My Grandfather had a couple of these in the late 80's and early 90's. He was a Pearl Harbor Survivor, fought in the Invasion of Saipan.
His VFW buddies chewed him out for not buying American and buying from a Japanese company. And no matter what, he told them that when the American companies start making trucks that last as long with as little problems as his Toyota's, he'd go back to buying American.
Toyota had their engineering down back then.
I think that’s exactly why Toyota Tacoma don’t drop in value over time as much as similar trucks would. These fuckers are built to last
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At this point it seems like Toyota and Isuzu trucks are just civilian tanks
Oh damn, my dad used to have an Isuzu Trooper. I forgot all about that thing until just now.
Mine is still holding and using his 99 Hombre.
I didn't even realize Isuzu was still around in '99. You almost never see them.
Still the #1 best selling brand in Thailand
My step dad had an 87. Blue and boxy. Absolute beautiful rig and I’d give anything for him to still have it. Learned how to drive manual and 4x4 on that thing
Basically the same as the pathfinder… the 1994 Trooper/Pathfinder is still one of my all time fave trucks
I love Isuzu Troopers. My dad kept his until the engine literally overheated, melted, and died one summer. Had it for 22 years. Very fun car.
Had an Isuzu in college. Sold it after getting married, starting a family, driving all over the US, with 292,000 miles. It used oil, but otherwise was a tank. My friends were constantly replacing suspension and steering parts on their Chevy and Fords. I just drove.
My dad had one too, he loved that thing. Both died on the same day.
Sorry to hear that.
I appreciate that. Both were tough as nails, they just couldn’t handle the 1” plate steel slicing through the cab.
Jesus Christ, dude, that's horrible.
Ya it was a mess, guy driving the tractor trailer drove off like nothing happened. Tried to clean the glass/blood off the steel when he got to the drop off site. It’s easier to talk about now, it’s been 9 years
I bought my 93 rodeo a year ago. Been having trouble with getting it above 2500 rpms on the highway. Last month it solved itself and i still dont know what the cause was. 200k miles and the thing is a fucking tank
Borrowed a car once that was only driven a couple of miles to work and back home every day. When I borrowed it and took it on the hwy it flat out wouldn't go. I thought I was going to get rear ended and couldn't wait for the next exit, but then it just started getting better and better. I believe it was carbon and it worked itself out.
>Isuzu Trooper Such a beautiful design
Those doors were crazy! So flat!
Even their cars are tough as fuck. I used to have a 91 Corolla when I was a teenager. My buddies and I would neutral drop while rev bombing it, we'd jump it going 45mph, and race it through cornfields. After 2 years of driving like that it finally blew a head gasket at about 300k on the odo.
In high school my girlfriend didn't know she was supposed to change the oil in her 97 Camry. She put 85000 miles on it without ever changing the oil. It had over 215,000 miles when she bought it. She sold it for $400 at 300,000 miles.
Oh hey, I did that with my first car too. Except mine lasted nowhere near as long before the engine went to shit.
Comments like this one remind how much I don't know anything about cars.
9/10 terrorists and warlords can't be wrong.
9/11
No
They literally are treated that way by the UN. The UN have a hidden warehouse in Europe that stocks hundreds of Hilux ready to ship worldwide where UN needs them. There’s a video on YouTube about. Pretty cool stuff
My buddy Tim (RIP) had an Isuzu Hombre in high school. Single cab, 5 speed, no radio. We'd take that thing in ditches, over jumps, and it always just kept driving. He had a huge sticker on the back window of just the silhouette of a mustache and sombrero.
The moment Top Gear dropped one from like 300 feet and then drove it into the ocean, and it still ran, I knew I had to have one.
It was vice-versa. First Jeremy rammed it a bunch of times then let it sink in the sea. After it survived, he drove it through a wooden house, hit it with a demolition ball and threw a campervan on it. Because it survived, be burned it. And finally, James lift it on top of a skyscraper which was demolished. The car barely survived and was put on display in the studio.
Didn't Jeremy crash it into a tree too?
And a wall of a church and many other minor things. That's what I meant by "rammed it a bunch of times".
The car said "that all you got, pussy??"
Its been my oppinion that was the best advert toyota could have ever gotten and they have been producing terrible cars since, because it doesnt matter what they put out people just have that top gear bit stuck in their heads and think toyota means bulletproof
I mean my Corolla is from 2014 and it has taken more of a beating than it rightfully should.
I had a 2003 Camry that I got sitting on the side of my uncles house for 3-4 years. Drove it from 154k to 236k miles and I: Got it up to 120mph, fit a 50gal water heater inside it, lit a brake on fire, drove it the entirety of my ownership with a CEL on, took it down a rally stage logging trail at up to 60mph, drove though a 18" snowfall blizzard... While pulling a trailer with a snowmobile on it, regularly towed a 2 place sea doo trailer (with 2 sea doos on it), and many many more things. Fucker wouldn't die, sold it for $500 less than I paid for it after using it for 6 years. Only had to take it to the shop on 3 occasions which cost a total of $950 or so in repairs. I did regular maintenance myself.
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Little work horse and tank all rolled into one.
2001 or early highlanders nearly wont die if you take care of them. great vehicle well over 300k ive seen, just maintain it
Dude in my neighborhood has an original motor 87 Toyota pickup. It's on its second transmission though. But, it has 720k miles on it. He still gets offers all the damn time for it. Even just out getting gas, someone will throw 5-7k offers at him. He said he won't sell it until it's at a million miles.
I have a similar Toyota, looks good for it's age, SR5 V6, original everything with 4WD, all manual everything. It has dings, dents, scrapes. Not only do I get offers out in public, but I've had people leave notes on it while in my driveway, people have knocked on my door to ask if I'd sell it, and on top of it all, Some people don't take, "not for sale" as an answer. "20k. 25k. 30k. name your price. Take my name and number and call me whenever you are ready." 235k miles, so still pretty new I guess
Yep. The body on his is pretty straight. No real dents and dings. Beds absolutely thrashed, and the paints obviously a bit faded
When I met my wife she had a 1990 Toyota Pickup, manual, 22RE engine she bought off this old dude for like $1.8K. My dumbass had her sell it when we got married so she could get a newer car. Had no idea the popularity. Luckily she sold it to someone who appreciated it and she sold it for what she paid. Dude prolly still has it. I have seen them go for $8-9K a few years ago
At a million miles the manufacturer buys the car back from you and gives you a brand new car.
Really? Never heard of that lol
Hilux, not Highlander.
Dude is speaking about his personal Highlander. Sure old Hiluxes are indestructible, but there are plenty other good Toyotas. There is Land Cruisers J70 that is THE vehicle of choise of international NGOs (UN, Red Cross, etc.)for how all-terrain and low-maintenance they are. RAV4s that ARE climbing mountains all over the world and need only a little push sometimes. You could submerse Mark II in the water, get it out, let it dry and there'd be nothing broken. AC, radio, everything would function (probably while underwater too) Plenty of Toyotas were built like a tank back then.
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Also the hilux legendary reliability dates back to japanese made ones, which are not made anymore.
The j70 engine electrical system is just three wires. 3!!!
I like to think that When the engineers were designing the car they thought it had to do anything a land vehicle does
Are…are you insinuating that the highlander was not originally intended to be a land vehicle? Does…^(does it swim?)
Does it *fly*? 🥹
It gets some serious airtime, if you drop it from high enough
Apparently, the 2-CV has such a good suspension that it can be dropped from 500ft in the air and keep a dozen eggs perfectly safe! (Yes, this is a GT moment)
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F/A - 87 Highlander
Tank horse
AKA a mule.
Well, now I want one. But where do I get the turret addon?
Ebay
The ones on Amazon from those companies that are just a bunch of random letters aren't nearly as great, ebay is the way for sure. Haven't tried Craigslist yet tho
Craiglist is for two things, meth and illegal shit. At least I think, I am not american
Only rust kills (frame) this truck
It need this truck. Whats the name?
Toyota Hilux
I live in Japan and have the opportunity to import a Hilux back to the states with me when I leave and boy let me tell you I sure am tempted.
Do it
Yeah what he said
Yeah and bring us one too
Wild you don't have them in the US. It's like the most Popular car in Australia haha.
From every red p plate bloke drinking a iced coffee with a dart hanging out to the old boy that pulls other people's cray pots on the weekdays.. everyone has a lux
Infinitely better that these new giant American wanker tankers that are coming over.
You made me spit out my tea. American here who is gonna use this term from now on for the fragile ego trucks.
Ditto. I drive a compact, those things are the bane of my existence. Now I know just what to call them.
truck people already have a name for them: *pavement princesses*
Emotional support vehicle.
Bring back the 1 tonne rodeo
I'm waiting for the electric.
I wish we had the utes/trucks you guys get, I'd love to have a truck that doesn't have a driving position in the stratosphere
But then how would you ensure your own safety at the cost of that of everyone around you in the event of an accident?!
This truck is already big and unnecessary for most people, who’s be better off buying some small, efficient car.
Yes. Fiat panda with ma deuce
"Wanker Tanker" that's a new one. I'll remember it fondly.
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In Nigeria, we have both :)
Damn how tf Nigeria so cool
You can import anything with 4 wheels as long as you have enough bribe money
The Hilux is a light truck and the Tacoma midsized. It stopped being imported to the US because back in the 90s we added huge terrifs on light trucks in a move to help American truck manufacturers regain market share.
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Pretty sure it goes under the Tacoma moniker in the US although it has some differences to fit the us market.
Tacoma is practically the same thing here.
Nope. We’re forced to participate in a market that capitalized in every instance it can. Americans are only allowed to buy giant vehicles that have no fuel regulations. All so they Dan keep making money off of us.
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But can you mount an AA machine gun on it?
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Acceptable. >Why use AA gun when missle is better? You can use the gun to shoot people too. And bullets are cheaper i think.
The older Tacomas are out there and getting harder to come by :(
The Hilux and the Tacoma are basically the same truck, and we have the Tacoma in the US
It's similar here in Malaysia. It's so popular that regular folks still call other pickup truck Hilux.
Just the allure of the name Hilux in America is enough to sell it. You can make a boatload.
Hilux after 06 are dog shit cheap crap, need the old ones
The new ones are shit. Look up the DPF scandal in Australia, they got hit with massive fines
You certainly wouldn't lose money on that. Any Hilux imported here would demand a HUGE premium over what it's worth simply due to the incredibly limited number of Hiluxes here in the states.
The US doesn't have hilux's?
It was called the "Toyota Pickup" before being replaced by the Tacoma in 1995.
The only passenger truck that has ever been driven to the North Pole. Driven by 2 out of shape, alcoholic, middle aged men with zero experience in arctic exploration.
Top gear is… not a show that should be praised for its realism. The producers set up a lot of what happened on there.
Sure but you can't exactly fake driving to the North Pole. Clarkson stated that for much of the trek the support trucks were stuck behind them.
Actually, you can. Easily. > But while Clarkson painted their eventual victory over Hammond as a triumph for the automobile, Dr Stroud described their achievement as "laughable". > Dr Stroud, who in 1993 joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes in becoming the first explorers to walk unaided across Antarctica, said: "This was a disturbing example of very misleading TV. > "Where they went is 1,200 miles from the North Pole - that's 400-500 miles south of where expeditions to the true North Pole start. > "The conditions you face when travelling to the North Pole bear no resemblance whatsoever to those you encounter when going to the North Magnetic Pole.
Exactly, what most people don't realise is that the North Pole episode was actually shot in a sound stage in Hounslow. And Jeremy Clarkson isn't an actual bigot, he's played by a character actor called Marcus Ledsham-Maybury. But, I guess most people are just easily fooled.
The unbreakable. Nokia 3310. AK-47. Toyota Hilux. You name it.
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Most of the technicals were 70 series LandCruisers
I’ve always known them to be called just Toyota Truck. My coworker owns one and i still compliment her every time she drives it in. Thought they became T100s later? But yea these are amazing builds and to buy one nowadays is pretty expensive
It was called a "Toyota Truck" in North America, not kidding. It's from a time when it was literally the only Toyota truck. Then they came out with the T series as well so they replaced it with the Tacoma. But as others have said, it was known as the HiLux most everywhere else.
1985 Toyota SR5 4x4. At least a few of them are anyway. Greatest truck ever built.
The 1986-1987 war between Chad and Libya is known as the [Toyota War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War) because The Chadians used 400 Toyota pickups given to them by France to quickly move in the desert and overran the superior Libyan army.
Fitting. After all, Hiluxes are the Chad of pickup trucks
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They also had air superiority from the French.
They pulled a.. Chad maneuver
They learned if you run over a land mine at over 100miles an hour it wouldn’t set them off so they were able to just drive up on bases and do hit and run attacks. When I heard that the first time I thought about the stereotypical landscape of a war zone in Africa and thought there’s a stock vehicle that could just hit that terrain at 100mph, not even considering the bullet they were probably riddled with.
There's Landcruisers in there too
The majority of vehicles shown with mounted weapons were landcruiser 70s
> landcruiser 70s which, if in decent condition, go for 50k easy today
I've seen them for 200k
They start at 30k brand new without tax in Middle East. Also in Australia too.
My dad worked for UN and tried to import an old Land Cruiser from Haiti to Canada but it would have cost like 50k just to ship it. I’m sad I’ll never get to drive one.
Here's mine! 250k miles and still a great work truck: [1994 Toyota Pickup](https://imgur.com/a/DbmMgvT)
I am so fucking jealous. All I want is a small truck. Wish they still made em like this.
Hilux: proof you don't need a massive brodozer to do truck stuff.
I wish they’d resurrect the old hilux in the states. Bring back small pickups dammit.
I remember reading something about Toyota introducing another small pickup soon to compete with the maverick
Still kicking ass forty years later. Is it the SR5 engine in that one because if so the power house of the truck is even older.
Sr5 has noting to do with the engine, it's an appearance/interior package. You could order an sr5 with the 22r, the 3vz, or the diesel.
The 22r engine was the best 4banger ever made.
Great motor, but the Hilux that Top Gear beat the crap out of was a diesel.
And nobody is calling the 3vz a power house.
No they're pretty bad
Looks to me like they made an amazing truck if it can withstand all that
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The joke is that it's the Nokia 3310 of cars. The frame is very sturdy and the engine is INCREDIBLY reliable.
Nice technical
Command&Conquer Generals?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle) The real world
Toyota Hilux, the AK-47 of 4x4 vehicles.
If I recall that Top Gear episode, they let it on a ramp so the tide rise would cover it, but during the process the cables holding it broke and they had to look for it under water for several hours. It still worked...
Favorite of insurgent terrorist groups in the middle east....but do they pay list price?
US auto dealers send the used cars they buy to them.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/plumber-whose-decaled-truck-went-to-syria-settles-lawsuit
They’re excellent negotiators.
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ah the Holy Hilux, the vehicle that can survive through 3 sandstorms and consistent 40+ degrees Celsius weather and still be able to drive without any issues
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I think they also used Hiluxes for the Arctic expedition.
Correct. They did.
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Then they put it on the roof of a 40 story building, demoed the building, and started it right back up. Legend of a truck.
Toyota in the 80's had the formula for vehicles that wouldn't die. They unfortunately quit doing that, bc it's hard to sell new cars when your customers don't need to replace the car they bought from you for 400K miles lol.
Planned obsolescence.
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Was I a good truck?
I'm told you were the best.
Toyota has atleast 1 car in each country that is the most famous, like India has Invoa or Fortuner, Middle East has this truck, others are like Corolla, Supra and many more
I want a Hilux so fucking bad.
Legend
Are the newer Toyota Tacomas on a Hilux chassis? (I just bought a 2023 Tacoma SR5 it's being shipping here for August 12th)
I’ve had a few tacos over the years (currently an 08 sr5 with 250k on it since new) they are still great but not the beasts they were back in the 90s. I think my first was a 93 and that thing was nuts. My buddy recently got an new one and I’m in a position where I could upgrade but I’m dragging my feet because I’m not crazy on how they geared the transmissions on the current gen.
> I’m in a position where I could upgrade but I’m dragging my feet because I’m not crazy on how they geared the transmissions on the current gen. Tacoma prices are insane right lately and with interest at ~7% for a new car you’re probably smart to drag your feet. You have any rust issues with your ‘08? I’m in Minnesota and that era tend to fall apart.
The frame rusted out before the engine stoped working on mine.
The war chariot
Have a 2005 one with 500 000+km on the Odo. Still kicks ass. Would not drive any other "truck". (it's a Bakkie or a Ute not a Truck.)
I got a ‘95 Toyota Hilux LN106 with 320,000 kilometres on the clock. Best purchase I’ve made and probably will ever make. Love that damn ute
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My wife's uncle has a Hilux from the early 90's that he bought new. He uses it at his farm every day and it still runs. Pretty solid car
Just a couple years ago we sold my grandfathers 90/91 Hilux. It was in near mint condition.
All you need to know about the Hilux, is shown in what the Top Gear boys put one through
r/shittytechnicals would love this
I have one of those! I love it. 1980, 4 wheel drive, original everything, except for the lift and tires.
The Hilux is the tank of their trucks, too bad not available in the USA
My buddy just imported his 2007 Hilux diesel 4x4 into Canada. The thing is a workhorse.
The god of all vehicles
That truck is probably one of the best, toughest trucks on the planet.
My brothers 2001 Tacoma had 650k until an uninsured motorist hit him and totaled it 2nd transmission and we short blocked it also
Ah, the Hilux. Keeping warlords mobile for decades.
My uncle had one of these when his house was completely obliterated by a tornado (we're talking entire house just GONE, all the way down to the foundation). When we went to his house to start clearing the wreckage, we found the truck 500 yards away from the garage it was parked in and down a hill. Despite looking almost exactly the truck in the last clip, it started up immediately, and we used it to haul wreckage for the entirety of the cleanup
Backbone of any military insurrection
My Grandfather had a couple of these in the late 80's and early 90's. He was a Pearl Harbor Survivor, fought in the Invasion of Saipan. His VFW buddies chewed him out for not buying American and buying from a Japanese company. And no matter what, he told them that when the American companies start making trucks that last as long with as little problems as his Toyota's, he'd go back to buying American.
Toyota had their engineering down back then. I think that’s exactly why Toyota Tacoma don’t drop in value over time as much as similar trucks would. These fuckers are built to last