Toyota Hilux is a series of compact pickup trucks are manufactured and marketed by Toyota Motor Corporation. Most countries used the Hilux name all his life in the series, but in North America, the Hilux name was retired in 1976 in favor of a truck, pickup, or Compact Truck. In North America, a popular option package, SR5 (Sport Rally 5-speed), was used as a colloquial name for the truck model, although the option package was also used on other models of Toyota, as the Corolla. In 1984, the Trekker, a tourist from version Hilux, 4Runner was renamed in Australia and North America, as well as the Hilux Surf in Japan. In 1995, Toyota introduced a new model pickup, Tacoma in the U.S., ending Hilux / pickup there. 4Runner SUV is now complete, and later models do not look like Tacoma.
Toyota Hilux
Hilux has gained a reputation for exceptional durability and reliability, even during sustained heavy use and / or violence, and is often called "Indestructible Truck." This was reinforced by BBC Top Gear show car, when the 1988 diesel Hilux with 190,000 miles (310,000 km) on the odometer has been subjected to extraordinary abuse (in series 3, episodes 5 and 6). It consisted of driving him down the stairs, cleaning buildings, crashing headlong into a tree washed into the sea, and being submerged for four hours, driving it through the garden shed, dropping a caravan on it, hitting it with a wrecking ball, setting his car and bed area on fire, and, finally, to place it on top of a 240-foot (73 m) block of flats, which was destroyed following a controlled demolition. Although it was now suffering from severe structural damage, the truck is still running after the repair without spare parts, and only with the typical tools that are found in the tool box truck, such as screwdrivers, engine oil and wrench, However, WD -40 was used to get the engine after it was recovered from the sea. Hilux now rests as one of the background scenery in the studio Top Gear.
Toyota Hilux
The series 2006 (series 8, episode 3), Hilux was chosen by Jeremy Clarkson as his platform for amphibious. With, Clarkson rigged the truck with a huge outboard motor, ironically made by Honda, and the steering mechanism in the pickup bed. Truck, redubbed "Toybota", Clarkson was thrown several kilometers of road and 2 miles (3.2 km) from open water, before capsizing (three meters from the finish) during rapid rotation. After restoration, the car has been moved back into the Top Studio Gear, where sure, Clarkson said that he would be only one capable of driving his truck home as it was indestructible Hilux. Nevertheless, Clarkson could not get the Hilux started - that led to his co-hosts to believe that Clarkson had finally destroyed "indestructible." When Clarkson turned the engine over, it made a hissing sound and puffing, as if the injectors or glow plug has been removed.
Toyota Hilux
In 2007, Top Gear ran a special program in which Clarkson and James May raced solo Hilux 2005 model in 1996, the north magnetic pole from Northern Canada against Richard Hammond using a dog sled, and won. This episode, known as the Top Gear Polar Special, made the truck the first car to reach the magnetic North Pole. Hilux used a slightly modified: the big wheels and thicker tires were installed, a fat security guard sump was installed, the front suspension was moved forward, gun mount has been installed, some powerful headlights have been installed (although they were not needed, since it is in still polar day 11:30 pm) and the toilet seat (so-called "bumper Dumper 'by Clarkson) has been installed on the rear bumper.
In 2010, the Top Gear host James May went to change Hilux, one of which served as the vehicle crew in 2007 during the polar special and close to the top of the erupting volcano, Iceland, and a fragment of volcanic lava. Hilux has been modified for this task by installing simple metal "umbrella" and a drop of alcohol to cool their tires. This was filmed shortly before stopping all flights of the airline in this region due to volcanic ash expelled (Series 15, Episode 1).
Toyota Hilux 4x4
External TV programs, these vehicles are known to exceed 300 000 miles (480000 km) with regular maintenance. Also notorious for being used as an improvised fighting vehicle, "technical" -. Militias and irregular armed forces, especially in third world conflicts Toyota War between Libya and Chad was so named because of the use Hilux trucks, cars, the cavalry in the army of Chad. These vehicles were also used in the war in Iraq, as improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The militia is known to equip the car with stolen, the post-Soviet missiles and equipment. Toyota Hilux war saw use as a towing vehicle, serving to tow planes and tanks, including T-62 heavy tank from the former Soviet Army. There are currently 37 individual Hiluxes used People's Liberation Army in the southern region of China. Toyota Hilux has been widely used by the Pakistani army. However, Mitsubishi L200s were purchased, rather than the seventh generation Hilux recently to replace worn-out vehicles. New Zealand Army currently uses a Toyota Hilux for its troops in Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. special forces also use specially modified Tacoma and Hilux in Afghanistan.
Toyota Hilux
In October 2007 the Swedish magazine Auto Teknikens Värld runs a red herring (moose test), which showed that mobility Hilux pickup truck was not enough to turn sharply at moderate speeds. Truck failed the test and only the driver's skill prevented it from overturning. After the test Toyota stopped the sales of Hilux is equipped with 16 inch wheels in Europe.
The world record was achieved thanks to the support crew for the participants 2008/2009 Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race. The crew rode in a specially adapted Hiluxs Toyota Trucks Arctic change, completing a trip of more than 5,000 km from Novo, the Russian research station in Antarctica at the South Pole Geographic and back, making them the first 4x4 to reach the South Pole. The way back to 2500 km from South Pole station Novo completed in a record eight days and 17 hours.
The fourth-generation Hilux as the mode of transport for Trailbreaker Transformers Autobots and lift.
2012 Toyota Hilux
2012 Toyota Hilux
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