8 Mar 2021
Ian Lamming parts the waters in Toyota’s brand new behemoth pick-up, the Hilux
THERE can’t be many pick-ups that have won the gruelling Dakar Rally, but this one has – how cool is that?
Brand Toyota has always been synonymous with rugged, tough, well-built vehicles, featuring advanced technology, particularly the four wheel drives. Hilux takes that one step further by being renowned as ‘unbreakable’, which it certainly needed to be to traverse the deserts of Africa in the fastest time.
Mere mortals get to drive a more domesticated version but it is still pretty much invincible, which is probably why Toyota chose that description as the model name.