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Conspiracy theory: The reason we have the Chicken Tax is to keep the Hilux out of the US because it's too effective a weapon against the military
It is so smaller more competitively priced and actually usable trucks stay out of your country
That's too credible for me to believe
Top gear put a Hilux up against a 1984 chevy half 4x4 they found on craigslist. The old chevy won, only vehicle running at the end.
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That's Top Gear America, which is very much not Top Gear. Plus they didn't run the Hilux head-to-head. I bet none of those guys have even driven a Hilux.
Anyways, point has been made, and proven. They did run head to head. Hilux was the runner up, 2nd last to break. Watched the episode years ago. Now I know you're thinking of what amounted to a hilux ad on the original top gear. It's not really true to life. No 85 Chev half tons in England either.
You gotta remember hiluxes are just a quarter ton truck. Yeah they're tough enough, so were old Datsuns. It's never really mechanics and hard core off roaders that fanboy hiluxes, and those old chevys were fucking tough.