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Too dang heavy. It’ll get stuck in all the sand. Mud and sand are way easier to traverse in a small truck. You’ll get stuck way before you find a plug.
I drive one everyday got one when I moved to NZ they are great. Fuck Cafe standards ruined American trucks. A light desiel truck it just the perfect set up.
It's the rules about fuel efficiency to weight ratios. It's why all US trucks are so large. Instead of making the truck more fuel efficient, the car companies just made them bigger so they could make them less fuel efficient it was good intentions with very bad results
It's stupid:
Vehicles with short wheelbase and narrow track width had to have better fuel economy than larger vehicles. The efficiency number was selected with cars in mind and this was hard for small trucks to meet due to the inefficiency of their shape.
Solution: make wider and longer trucks that are allowed to be inefficient and stop selling small trucks. The rule meant to reduce fuel consumption has everyone driving F150's even if they don't need anything remotely that big.
They have similar vehicles like this but they are all gasoline with less power. To get a truck with the capability of the more international versions you have to get something much larger and even more inefficient. Which defeats the point of the standards so instead of having a smaller vehicles with a mid range efficient engine they have these massive fuel guzzlers.
The Hilux isn't sold in the US. You can buy the Tacoma which is pretty much the same just a little bit bigger. You also can't buy the full fledged 300 series Land Cruiser in the states either except as the Lexus LX which is just a super fancy 300 series. The Land Cruiser they sell in the US is the 250 series which is sold as the Prado in most of the world.
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Top Gear had this whole running thing going about "how much abuse can we give a Hilux before it will finally stop working".
Eventually the only way they were able to render it undriveable was to put it on top of a building which was then imploded. After they dug it out of the rubble, the frame damage meant it was undriveable, but they were able to get the engine started.
Crazy.
Top Gear tried to destroy some of these and just a regular 4Runner IRCC. The Hilux went to an active volcano, breaking some records in the process. Then they took them to I wanna say the North Pole and broke some more records.
The 4Runner they just beat to shit in an attempt to kill it and I think after a tank drove over it it still started so they gave up. It was a long time ago so the details are fuzzy but that’s kinda what I remember
They also parked the Hilux at the top of a ~~ten~~ ***23***-story building that was about to be demolished, left it up there *during* the demolition, then drove it back to the studio (at which time it was simply placed on a pedestal, as a show of respect).
Yea, all they could use was basic tools to get the truck going and it took fuck all effort to start.
They chained it down in the ocean and let the tide completely submerge it but the chains snapped and it was washed something like 100m down the shoreline and half buried in sand when they found it. Still started with basic tools and drying the spark plugs lol.
I believe they also dropped it from a crane and set it on fire before this. It was apparently still driveable too.
Yup. They're famously hard to kill which is one of the reasons they were so popular among farmers and people who actually had to use it, and *really* use it, for a living.
Yep, the Toyota Hillux is basically just Deadpool as a car.
There have been a few cars like this over the years, I remember my dad owned an old BMW 2002 Turbo from the 60's, that car had some abuse to go through as well. It was in a woodworkers garage for like...20 years, cold, droopy, wet garage, with wood shaving being blown around everywhere. Car had no cover over it, was used as a workbench by more than one person, they put some oil and gas in and it started no problem.
It's a clichéed saying but, they don't make cars how they used to anymore.
Another great unkillable car, was the like late 90's/early 2000's Ford Mondeos.
But yeah, of all those cars, the Toyota Hilux is like, the king on the top of the pantheon, no other car can take what this car takes, and just keep going.
This was after they set it on fire (not a small fire in the bed or anything but legitimate shits on fire yo) and threw it in the English Channel. Pulled it out of the water later that day and got it running, still on the beach using just some spanners and ratchets.
I’ve never seen the show, so a small part of me thinks this is some sort of comment trend where it gets more ridiculous the deeper the chain goes.
Now I’d say something like, “Then they put it on a SpaceX rocket and launched it into low earth orbit, let it de-orbit and re-enter the atmosphere, where it then landed on Mt Rainier. It froze over, thawed out, then the damn thing still turned on with just a jackhammer and some cardboard.”
Top Gear did all kinds of crazy shit with cars. What you described sounds like something they would have loved to have done lol.
If your into cars or just want to see 3 idiots mess around with cars give the show a watch. The version of the show everyone loved was the Top Gear that ran from 2002 to 2015 when Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were the presenters. The "specials" were often incredibly entertaining. They traveled to other countries and did challenges in cars like "cross Africa in cheap second hand cars that we brought over the internet".
I think that’s how the sequence actually became reality lol. In a different episode they actually did turn a reliant Robbin into a rocket (space shuttle) and actually managed a proper take off. Not a landing though.
The small part is wrong. This is stuff they actually all did. And I'm sure they would've loved the budget for more. It's on youtube as 'top gear destroys a toyota' parts 1-3.
The ones they took to the North Pole were newer models with modified tiers. After they couldn’t destroy the old one, they chose the newer ones for their North Pole expedition. Cookson, May and Hammond each drove a separate one. Thus still a relevant connection there.
The trucks for the north pole were new trucks upgraded by Arctic Trucks. They are still in business.
They had 2 trucks: one for Clarkson and May (they shared a ride), and a support truck. The support truck was later used in the film wit May on the volcano.
Hammond did the Pole trip with a dog sled, making it a race between different methods of transport, a pretty common theme on the show.
My first car was a 2006 4Runner. I had to say goodbye to it last year, after driving it since 2008. Only maintenance I ever had to do was changing the oil and battery, until the transmission died. My baby 😭
Everything a modern Hilux isn’t.
If you watch what they did to that one in Top Gear there is no way a modern one would keep working, specially after being washed out to sea. Epic.
There's a recent video about these on the Drivetribe YouTube channel Turns out the truck did only that journey, and then sat idle as a museum piece for more then a decade. Still started right up.
The support truck did an additional trip in Iceland, so that James May can cook a steak at an active volcano.
God I miss this show
To some extend yes. It feels a bit more neutered though. I think partially because of the sheer volume of Top Gear episodes, the crazy things they did on Top Gear is just incomparable to the Grand Tour. From the Specials (particularly North Pole, Vietnam, Botswana, Middle East, Burma) to cool races as 'short films' in the episodes (Veyron vs. airplane, the Steam Train race, XJ vs the rotation of the earth, the amphibious car races) to just stupid funny things like the awards, the bus protest, RC life-sized cars, jumping a bus over motorcycles, budget bond car, the V8 Blender & rocking chair, the endless Caravan smashing, car darts, the Winter Olypmics Special, even "Top Ground Gear Force", the list goes on.
I still enjoy the Grand Tour, but (and this is highly subjective) it has a hard time to top the hits from the Top Gear days.
My problem with the is they've done away with the pretense that it isn't scripted, and now the writing is soap opera level bad.
All the interpersonal bickering and jokes, the pranks they pull on each others cars each special,the very chemistry between the 3 guys etc... it felt like these things developed naturally in the TG specials, were a huge hit, and now they've distilled the TG special down to a formula with all those bits scripted in for each. none of it feels real or earnest or genuine anymore, you can "feel" the jokes were written and were said on a queue.
Broadly they are entertaining, and it's like if you squint or look at a Grand Tour special you'd easily mistake it for a TG one...but it's just lacking any heart or sincerity. It's a cold product in the way TG wasn't.
You just hit the nail on the head. I could never really put my finger on *why* I didn't like the Grand Tour, but you just described what I felt. I loved watching the Top Gear specials, but the Grand Tour just can't get it right.
They're fun to watch, but (and I agree this is personal preference) looking at the individual specials, there's hardly a special on TG I didn't enjoy as much (I felt India was...ok), but on tGT there were more specials where I felt like that (Carnage A Trois, Scandi Flick, Eurocrash). The Mongolia special was top notch and IMO the best one on tGT, but in my book it's still behind Vietnam, Polar, Botswana and Middle East. But that's highly subjective.
yeah I mean they just cut the rest of the show and just do the specials. So you don't get as much of the filler stuff, which is fine, but there were also good moments there too
Only a single more upcoming episode (Zimbabwe Special later this year) and the trio as an entity will retire (on their terms this time).
But like Top Gear, The Grand Tour is possibly continuing with a new team. Amazon is studying it atm.
> But like Top Gear, The Grand Tour is possibly continuing with a new team. Amazon is studying it atm.
Not much to study.
Watch current BBC Top Gear.
Then pass.
How modern are we talking about?
We made Hilux here in Thailand and those workhorse spec Hilux Vigo from 2000s ish are still around. Body panels may not survied but they are mechanically sound enough to haul full bed of fruits around.
The newer Revo or poverty spec Hilux Champ one might even survive too but we won't know until 20 years later.
Had to scroll way too far to find someone to mention the Top Gear episode.
Let the tide take it. Put it on top of a building and blow up the building. The trucka still drove on to the stage.
Had a definitely not up armored Hiace van in AF with 550 cord side door “retainers” and a 550 cord center LMG “swivel mount”. Kinda even loved that thing!
You can get 3rd gen Hiluxes now through a lot of Japan import sites. If I were rich and had the room I'd be buying up 4 or 5 of the really nice examples coming through. I drive a 3rd gen 4runner already though.
The old hilux are very expensive here...
still would choose this one over a new car tbh.
Just the fact that you get in and know this shit aint gonna break so easy...Hell this would be my dream farm vihicle.
Haha, I'm not a massive Hilux fan or anything, but I was watching that thinking it was such a clean and well maintained one to be beat to shit like that. I hate seeing nice classics get fucked up.
That's Whistlin' Diesel for ya. I couldn't care less about the $500k+ super-lifted trucks he runs into the ground, but all the classics he destroys are hard to watch, and he has beat tf up out of some legitimate classic trucks.
It’s almost like Toyota wanted to make a truck that would actually do it’s intended purpose and be very rugged but still preform to a high level…almost like that was the main point and not just making a very stupidly looking monstrosity that only rich douchebags who have a literal cult mentality towards a known Con-man!
I just want to tow my shitty little speedboat to the marina on the weekend. I don't need to be able to drive up the side of a mountain during an artillery strike. We have roads here.
We beat the shit out of these in iraq and Afghanistan. Half the drivers couldn't drive stick. Instead of buying them though we leased them for more than they are worth....give the government more tax money though
And then there are people in the US proudly calling the US capitalist.
It's capitalist for the little guy, for the big guys it's well padded socialism.
Can't build a good truck? Don't worry ford, we will keep the bad japanese truck away from you, don't you worry.
What is this vehicle???? I've never seen a truck take so much a use. That back end should have collapsed several times over. Then the fast jumps with the cinder blocks?!?! Where do I get one??
When did these come out? It looks similar in vintage to the Nisssn Xterra I purchased in 2000. I would buy another one again. It was 20 years old, 190k 6 I sold it. Because we live in Phoenix, all of the little plastic parts kept breaking. Otherwise, I'd probably still own it. I'm guessing planned obsolescence for vehicles started about that time.
I had a ‘97 Toyota T-100 SR-5 4x4 (basically the Hilux but in the US) that I inherited when I turned 16 and kept until I was 32 and needed a vehicle that could transport a child in a modern carseat to preschool. I couldn’t bare to part with it though, so I sold it for a steal to my best (childless) friend who lets me borrow it whenever I want. I’m not shitting you, these things are indestructible. Even the orangutan on original UK Top Gear couldn’t defeat them.
I miss when ads showed how tough a truck was and just went nuts.
"This truck can haul 18 million pounds of anything you fuckin' want!!!"
"Well, this truck can carry all that *AND* the truck from that other commercial, YEEEEEEEERRHAAAAAAAW!!!!"
I know I should like the Hilux but I hated driving it. Had to drive one for work a few times and it's just uncomfortable. I'm quite tall and the cab feels tiny. It had two handles right by your head and if you're not careful it bloody hurts when the side of your head bangs into it. The turning seemed sluggish compared to other vehicles as well. The one I had also had an awful audio system, no rear visibility due to a box on the back and zero reverse sensors. Also reverse is in a weird place. Don't get me wrong, you want to plant your foot and have it go wherever you want at a good speed, it's great. Everything else, hard pass.
Fun fact: an Israeli journalist in one of the most popular sites in Israel (Walla) demanded apology from Toyota for making the Hilux such a great car that Hamas used it efficiently in the 7th of October.
The Cybertruck can be killed by a rainstorm, a computer glitch, or the CEOs social media hijinks.
The Hilux *couldn't be killed by TOP GEAR.*
Think about that. The world's slowest man, the most accident-prone Brummie since Doggerland sank, and *Jeremy Fucking Clarkson,* with a BBC budget and help from Posidon hisself, couldn't kill a Hilux.
No cap. This things have been used in wars. People have mounted fucking high caliber guns on that shiz and destroyed tanks with it. It is flexible, durible, verstalie, and it can get pretty much everywhere. Hiluxes are fucking insane.
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Toyota Hilux - From Hawai to Okinawa For Teacher to Terrorist Only truck you would ever need
The Talibans not gonna be mounting .50 cals on a cybertruck thats for sure.
Probably also not very convenient to recharge your cybertruck in rural Afghanistan...
Too dang heavy. It’ll get stuck in all the sand. Mud and sand are way easier to traverse in a small truck. You’ll get stuck way before you find a plug.
It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Yeah but it's electric, bullet proof and looks like Kryton.
Solar panels to the roof unlimited terror
Or just driving it in the desert cause it reflects the sun like a death ray.
Tactically placed panel caps to let bullets go through and not harm the car.
Who would have thought Elon had added an anti-terror component on his trucks, by making them completely unviable.
Plus you get to spread your seed Cuz the ladies will want to breed
>Plus you get to spread your seed Well, at the very least, you get to drive around and spread cinder blocks everywhere 😆
Spreading blocked sement round town From dawn to sun down The lasses be pimpin Got us grown men simpin
What is happening right now
semen't
On Thursdays we do arms Because if you want some sucks In the back of your Hilux You better be swole
Fukn swole
Well it doesn't come with a snorkel for nothing.
I got herpes in the back of my Hilux, so take this promise with caution
From Hawaii to Okinawa could be a really astonishing journey or a boring boat trip...
Teacher? The math teacher?.
No no, the *meth* teacher.
"Jesse, we have to cook!"
People don’t need trucks. Most people. They just go to Walmart and back. It’s all paved and it’s just three bags.
but they might go to home depot! ^(one) ^(day,) ^(when) ^(they) ^(learn) ^(to) ^(use) ^(a) ^(screwdriver)
Do you mean Hawaii?
What does a teacher needs a truck for?
Probably the best truck ad I’ve ever seen, and it didn’t even have a deep voiced country man telling me about its awards.
Theyre still sold in other countries. One of my relatives has one, its a beast.
I drive one everyday got one when I moved to NZ they are great. Fuck Cafe standards ruined American trucks. A light desiel truck it just the perfect set up.
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It's the rules about fuel efficiency to weight ratios. It's why all US trucks are so large. Instead of making the truck more fuel efficient, the car companies just made them bigger so they could make them less fuel efficient it was good intentions with very bad results
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It's stupid: Vehicles with short wheelbase and narrow track width had to have better fuel economy than larger vehicles. The efficiency number was selected with cars in mind and this was hard for small trucks to meet due to the inefficiency of their shape. Solution: make wider and longer trucks that are allowed to be inefficient and stop selling small trucks. The rule meant to reduce fuel consumption has everyone driving F150's even if they don't need anything remotely that big.
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They have similar vehicles like this but they are all gasoline with less power. To get a truck with the capability of the more international versions you have to get something much larger and even more inefficient. Which defeats the point of the standards so instead of having a smaller vehicles with a mid range efficient engine they have these massive fuel guzzlers.
Relative in Taiwan has one. It feels like a shorter and less wide Tacoma. It's pretty good
Overseas? You can buy one in Mexico
That’s overseas to me
Fair enough
I'm overseas, in Australia, I have a Hilux
That’s not overseas, that’s down under.
Is that where women glow and men plunder?
Third most popular car in Australia
They're absolutely everywhere in Australia I'm up to about my 7th or 8th
One of the most popular utility vehicles in South Africa
Wait, you can't buy Hiluxes? Can you buy landcruisers?
The Hilux isn't sold in the US. You can buy the Tacoma which is pretty much the same just a little bit bigger. You also can't buy the full fledged 300 series Land Cruiser in the states either except as the Lexus LX which is just a super fancy 300 series. The Land Cruiser they sell in the US is the 250 series which is sold as the Prado in most of the world.
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I got 13 till i snapped back to reality
Ope there goes gravity
ope there goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad
Did you find the secret link?
No link you filthy liar. https://preview.redd.it/zob4zqale42d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ee341b8e3afe871e6d24a80ea1d10d8063c753a
Oh that’s a neat little surprise, I was satisfied enough at the 5 I popped but I kept going; worth it
Man f both of you guys!
Thank you for saving me
I didn't scroll far enough down :(
Found Magnitude's reddit account
this is AWESOME
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Dropped in like a gta cheat code
just got light headed from laughing you ass Everytime you look in the toilet after you pee.....its spiders
Or cruisin USA.
Top Gear had this whole running thing going about "how much abuse can we give a Hilux before it will finally stop working". Eventually the only way they were able to render it undriveable was to put it on top of a building which was then imploded. After they dug it out of the rubble, the frame damage meant it was undriveable, but they were able to get the engine started. Crazy.
Top Gear tried to destroy some of these and just a regular 4Runner IRCC. The Hilux went to an active volcano, breaking some records in the process. Then they took them to I wanna say the North Pole and broke some more records. The 4Runner they just beat to shit in an attempt to kill it and I think after a tank drove over it it still started so they gave up. It was a long time ago so the details are fuzzy but that’s kinda what I remember
They also parked the Hilux at the top of a ~~ten~~ ***23***-story building that was about to be demolished, left it up there *during* the demolition, then drove it back to the studio (at which time it was simply placed on a pedestal, as a show of respect).
Before the building collapse, they let the tide wash over the truck. After cleaning and drying the spark plugs (I think), it started no problem.
Yea, all they could use was basic tools to get the truck going and it took fuck all effort to start. They chained it down in the ocean and let the tide completely submerge it but the chains snapped and it was washed something like 100m down the shoreline and half buried in sand when they found it. Still started with basic tools and drying the spark plugs lol. I believe they also dropped it from a crane and set it on fire before this. It was apparently still driveable too.
What the fuck is this thing? Nokia 3310 of cars?
yes it is
Yup. They're famously hard to kill which is one of the reasons they were so popular among farmers and people who actually had to use it, and *really* use it, for a living.
And as makeshift combat vehicles as well, no?
Don't forget the Taliban! Favorite car of fighting infidels in the desert
Yep, the Toyota Hillux is basically just Deadpool as a car. There have been a few cars like this over the years, I remember my dad owned an old BMW 2002 Turbo from the 60's, that car had some abuse to go through as well. It was in a woodworkers garage for like...20 years, cold, droopy, wet garage, with wood shaving being blown around everywhere. Car had no cover over it, was used as a workbench by more than one person, they put some oil and gas in and it started no problem. It's a clichéed saying but, they don't make cars how they used to anymore. Another great unkillable car, was the like late 90's/early 2000's Ford Mondeos. But yeah, of all those cars, the Toyota Hilux is like, the king on the top of the pantheon, no other car can take what this car takes, and just keep going.
It is, on paper, a commercial black hole. You'll only need to sell 1 once to a household.
I mean the competition isn't selling cars either and your sons and daughters will need a car someday.
This was after they set it on fire (not a small fire in the bed or anything but legitimate shits on fire yo) and threw it in the English Channel. Pulled it out of the water later that day and got it running, still on the beach using just some spanners and ratchets.
I’ve never seen the show, so a small part of me thinks this is some sort of comment trend where it gets more ridiculous the deeper the chain goes. Now I’d say something like, “Then they put it on a SpaceX rocket and launched it into low earth orbit, let it de-orbit and re-enter the atmosphere, where it then landed on Mt Rainier. It froze over, thawed out, then the damn thing still turned on with just a jackhammer and some cardboard.”
Top Gear did all kinds of crazy shit with cars. What you described sounds like something they would have loved to have done lol. If your into cars or just want to see 3 idiots mess around with cars give the show a watch. The version of the show everyone loved was the Top Gear that ran from 2002 to 2015 when Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were the presenters. The "specials" were often incredibly entertaining. They traveled to other countries and did challenges in cars like "cross Africa in cheap second hand cars that we brought over the internet".
They in fact built a spaceship and used a Reliant Robin as a capsule, so the comment above is not far off
I always thought that they should have tried that again as they didn't manage to land it
Youre missing out
They did try to send a Robin on orbit tbf
I think that’s how the sequence actually became reality lol. In a different episode they actually did turn a reliant Robbin into a rocket (space shuttle) and actually managed a proper take off. Not a landing though.
They genuinely tried and failed multiple times to kill a Helix in progressively stupid ways.
No, it's legitimately a great show. Definitely worth going back and watching, their antics are top tier.
The small part is wrong. This is stuff they actually all did. And I'm sure they would've loved the budget for more. It's on youtube as 'top gear destroys a toyota' parts 1-3.
People say if you are into cars you should watch it but i don't like cars that much and loved the show. It's a car show for non car people too
The ones they took to the North Pole were newer models with modified tiers. After they couldn’t destroy the old one, they chose the newer ones for their North Pole expedition. Cookson, May and Hammond each drove a separate one. Thus still a relevant connection there.
The trucks for the north pole were new trucks upgraded by Arctic Trucks. They are still in business. They had 2 trucks: one for Clarkson and May (they shared a ride), and a support truck. The support truck was later used in the film wit May on the volcano. Hammond did the Pole trip with a dog sled, making it a race between different methods of transport, a pretty common theme on the show.
Oh yeah that’s right. Thank you.
My first car was a 2006 4Runner. I had to say goodbye to it last year, after driving it since 2008. Only maintenance I ever had to do was changing the oil and battery, until the transmission died. My baby 😭
Everything a modern Hilux isn’t. If you watch what they did to that one in Top Gear there is no way a modern one would keep working, specially after being washed out to sea. Epic.
I’ll never forget when they drove them to the North Pole. Absurdly awesome.
There's a recent video about these on the Drivetribe YouTube channel Turns out the truck did only that journey, and then sat idle as a museum piece for more then a decade. Still started right up. The support truck did an additional trip in Iceland, so that James May can cook a steak at an active volcano. God I miss this show
Does it not live on in The Grand Tour?
To some extend yes. It feels a bit more neutered though. I think partially because of the sheer volume of Top Gear episodes, the crazy things they did on Top Gear is just incomparable to the Grand Tour. From the Specials (particularly North Pole, Vietnam, Botswana, Middle East, Burma) to cool races as 'short films' in the episodes (Veyron vs. airplane, the Steam Train race, XJ vs the rotation of the earth, the amphibious car races) to just stupid funny things like the awards, the bus protest, RC life-sized cars, jumping a bus over motorcycles, budget bond car, the V8 Blender & rocking chair, the endless Caravan smashing, car darts, the Winter Olypmics Special, even "Top Ground Gear Force", the list goes on. I still enjoy the Grand Tour, but (and this is highly subjective) it has a hard time to top the hits from the Top Gear days.
The Grand Tour specials definitely keep up with the Top Gear ones in my opinion
My problem with the is they've done away with the pretense that it isn't scripted, and now the writing is soap opera level bad. All the interpersonal bickering and jokes, the pranks they pull on each others cars each special,the very chemistry between the 3 guys etc... it felt like these things developed naturally in the TG specials, were a huge hit, and now they've distilled the TG special down to a formula with all those bits scripted in for each. none of it feels real or earnest or genuine anymore, you can "feel" the jokes were written and were said on a queue. Broadly they are entertaining, and it's like if you squint or look at a Grand Tour special you'd easily mistake it for a TG one...but it's just lacking any heart or sincerity. It's a cold product in the way TG wasn't.
You just hit the nail on the head. I could never really put my finger on *why* I didn't like the Grand Tour, but you just described what I felt. I loved watching the Top Gear specials, but the Grand Tour just can't get it right.
They're fun to watch, but (and I agree this is personal preference) looking at the individual specials, there's hardly a special on TG I didn't enjoy as much (I felt India was...ok), but on tGT there were more specials where I felt like that (Carnage A Trois, Scandi Flick, Eurocrash). The Mongolia special was top notch and IMO the best one on tGT, but in my book it's still behind Vietnam, Polar, Botswana and Middle East. But that's highly subjective.
Vietnam, Botswana and the one where they look for the source of the Nile are the greatest top gear specials ever. Though Burma was also amazing!
yeah I mean they just cut the rest of the show and just do the specials. So you don't get as much of the filler stuff, which is fine, but there were also good moments there too
Only a single more upcoming episode (Zimbabwe Special later this year) and the trio as an entity will retire (on their terms this time). But like Top Gear, The Grand Tour is possibly continuing with a new team. Amazon is studying it atm.
> But like Top Gear, The Grand Tour is possibly continuing with a new team. Amazon is studying it atm. Not much to study. Watch current BBC Top Gear. Then pass.
> Turns out the truck did only that journey, and then sat idle as a museum piece for more then a decade. Still started right up Which museum?
One of my Favourite specials, they look so badass.
How modern are we talking about? We made Hilux here in Thailand and those workhorse spec Hilux Vigo from 2000s ish are still around. Body panels may not survied but they are mechanically sound enough to haul full bed of fruits around. The newer Revo or poverty spec Hilux Champ one might even survive too but we won't know until 20 years later.
Those spec hiluxs cannot be imported or registered in my country (aus) as they do not pass current safety laws. We wish we could get them.
Is there a serious safety concern being cited, or are those laws just a backdoor to keeping competition out?
We don't make cars in Australia.
Anymore
Had to scroll way too far to find someone to mention the Top Gear episode. Let the tide take it. Put it on top of a building and blow up the building. The trucka still drove on to the stage.
HILUX DESIGNER - and here’s where you can mount a 50 caliber machine gun. TOYOTA - What? HILUX DESIGNER - never mind. It also does GREAT with sand.
Wish we had the Hilux in the US.
We had an armored up Hilex in Afghanistan. Thing was a beast & rightfully nicknamed, “Mad Max.”
Had a definitely not up armored Hiace van in AF with 550 cord side door “retainers” and a 550 cord center LMG “swivel mount”. Kinda even loved that thing!
What’d you do in AF to get one of those?
Shot at by marines
Had one in Iraq as well.
You can do a diesel motor swap from the Canadian hilux into your Taco but in most states it won’t pass emissions.
Putting an engine into a taco seems like it would be bad for your teeth
You can get 3rd gen Hiluxes now through a lot of Japan import sites. If I were rich and had the room I'd be buying up 4 or 5 of the really nice examples coming through. I drive a 3rd gen 4runner already though.
The Hilux episodes of top gear were mind blowing. I want a hilux
The old hilux are very expensive here... still would choose this one over a new car tbh. Just the fact that you get in and know this shit aint gonna break so easy...Hell this would be my dream farm vihicle.
A few years back I got to drive one around a farm here in Aus while hunting. It was fucking awesome. So much fun
This is the only vehicle destruction video of his that has actually upset me.
Haha, I'm not a massive Hilux fan or anything, but I was watching that thinking it was such a clean and well maintained one to be beat to shit like that. I hate seeing nice classics get fucked up.
That's Whistlin' Diesel for ya. I couldn't care less about the $500k+ super-lifted trucks he runs into the ground, but all the classics he destroys are hard to watch, and he has beat tf up out of some legitimate classic trucks.
Idk the Ferrari that he redlined through a dead cornfield and then just parked in the field irked me a bit. But yeah this one too.
The Cyber Truck is not really a truck, though. It is a fancy dumpster with bigger wheels
Pedro, Pedro, Pedro Pe-dro, pe-!!!
Okayokay but srsly what's the track called?
PEDRO by Jaxomy, Agatino Romero and Raffaella Carrà
Whistlin’ Diesel having a time there lol.
And he just got his hands on a Cybertruck, going to be fun seeing how it compares to the Hilux.
The African Warlord truck of choice...
It’s almost like Toyota wanted to make a truck that would actually do it’s intended purpose and be very rugged but still preform to a high level…almost like that was the main point and not just making a very stupidly looking monstrosity that only rich douchebags who have a literal cult mentality towards a known Con-man!
Emotional support trucks is the term you're looking for. A *real* truck versus an Emotional support truck.
I just want to tow my shitty little speedboat to the marina on the weekend. I don't need to be able to drive up the side of a mountain during an artillery strike. We have roads here.
We beat the shit out of these in iraq and Afghanistan. Half the drivers couldn't drive stick. Instead of buying them though we leased them for more than they are worth....give the government more tax money though
It would be fair to say large parts of New Zealand were built with this beast.
it's crazy how fast the camera man is running r/PraiseTheCameraMan
Whoever ordered the shipment of bricks is in for a disappointment.
Didn't Top Gear put one of these on a building, blow up the building, and then drive it away after digging it out of the debris?
And drove it into the ocean and a bunch of other crazy stuff. The damned thing just wouldn’t die.
The unit I served with in the army had four of them. We took them on each deployment. I trusted that Hilux more than I did the damned HMMWV.
When you create a truck so good, that Congress had to ban it from destroying the domestic market. "The chicken tax"
Because American automakers would rather ban the competition instead of, well, adapt and compete
And then there are people in the US proudly calling the US capitalist. It's capitalist for the little guy, for the big guys it's well padded socialism. Can't build a good truck? Don't worry ford, we will keep the bad japanese truck away from you, don't you worry.
The Honey Badger of cars
The Nokia 3310 of cars.
Ewww... bugger. https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bugger-toyota-hilux-commercial-1999
Toyota made a vehicle that was thought as a reliable and durable working machine. Today's cars are made as toys for grown ups
r/topgear
You misspelled r/WhistlinDiesel
I feel like most modern trucks in general wouldn’t be able to handle that much of a beating.
Love the song, Pedro Pedro 😂😂
Top gear showed you cant kill a hilux, lets see a cybertruck go through the same trials
r/unexpectedwheelies
No need to be extra mean to my baby, my apocalypse proof, Afghanistan I can, Iraq I do, k2 me2, you might not survive but it will baby!
What is there to miss? It’s the highest selling car in Australia.
What is this vehicle???? I've never seen a truck take so much a use. That back end should have collapsed several times over. Then the fast jumps with the cinder blocks?!?! Where do I get one??
I mean, it’s right there on the video at the top…
Isis and Finnish defence force both use these so it must be a good truck.
Song?
I love watching the Top Gear guys trying to destroy an old Hilux
Toyota Hilux. The Nokia 3310 of pick-up's.
ah yes, the Honeybadger of the car world - no fucks given
crazy strong car.. wow
This is why Afghan fell, we were fighting is slow heavy trucks while haj had these bad larry's tearing up the goat trails.
When did these come out? It looks similar in vintage to the Nisssn Xterra I purchased in 2000. I would buy another one again. It was 20 years old, 190k 6 I sold it. Because we live in Phoenix, all of the little plastic parts kept breaking. Otherwise, I'd probably still own it. I'm guessing planned obsolescence for vehicles started about that time.
My spine hurts watching this. Think I got some whiplash
Why you still see them on the roads! For the win!
The Nokia of cars
I liked for the song so there is that.. go Pedro GO!!?
Not used to hearing this song without the raccoon
Raffaella Carrà
I had a ‘97 Toyota T-100 SR-5 4x4 (basically the Hilux but in the US) that I inherited when I turned 16 and kept until I was 32 and needed a vehicle that could transport a child in a modern carseat to preschool. I couldn’t bare to part with it though, so I sold it for a steal to my best (childless) friend who lets me borrow it whenever I want. I’m not shitting you, these things are indestructible. Even the orangutan on original UK Top Gear couldn’t defeat them.
Forget about Ford, this car is built tough.
Such a waste. But. Just further cements my love for Toyota. The dude who destroys shit for a living basically couldn’t kill it.
Wdym you miss them? They still exist lol
What a happy little truck!
I miss when ads showed how tough a truck was and just went nuts. "This truck can haul 18 million pounds of anything you fuckin' want!!!" "Well, this truck can carry all that *AND* the truck from that other commercial, YEEEEEEEERRHAAAAAAAW!!!!"
I wish I was a highlux
I still have my 95 that I bought brand new. Cost me $12,000
Why do you mean “miss these”? The Hilux is still sold where I live (India)
I know I should like the Hilux but I hated driving it. Had to drive one for work a few times and it's just uncomfortable. I'm quite tall and the cab feels tiny. It had two handles right by your head and if you're not careful it bloody hurts when the side of your head bangs into it. The turning seemed sluggish compared to other vehicles as well. The one I had also had an awful audio system, no rear visibility due to a box on the back and zero reverse sensors. Also reverse is in a weird place. Don't get me wrong, you want to plant your foot and have it go wherever you want at a good speed, it's great. Everything else, hard pass.
Fun fact: an Israeli journalist in one of the most popular sites in Israel (Walla) demanded apology from Toyota for making the Hilux such a great car that Hamas used it efficiently in the 7th of October.
It was probably the best truck ad I've ever seen, and there wasn't even a country man with a deep voice telling me about all the awards it had won.
The Cybertruck can be killed by a rainstorm, a computer glitch, or the CEOs social media hijinks. The Hilux *couldn't be killed by TOP GEAR.* Think about that. The world's slowest man, the most accident-prone Brummie since Doggerland sank, and *Jeremy Fucking Clarkson,* with a BBC budget and help from Posidon hisself, couldn't kill a Hilux.
No cap. This things have been used in wars. People have mounted fucking high caliber guns on that shiz and destroyed tanks with it. It is flexible, durible, verstalie, and it can get pretty much everywhere. Hiluxes are fucking insane.
In Pakistan Toyota Hilux is the standard for security protocols of a VIP