Ken Cooke
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The most popular South American 4WD model
The Toyota HILUX is practiacally everywhere. Some have factory-installed snorkel´s, while they all have factory lightbars which bear the HILUX name,
4 doors, a short-short bed, and skinny 31¨tires (probably a 9.5¨width metric size on steel wheels).
David K, do you have a nice photo to insert? I took a nice photo of a HILUX specimen, but I lack the cables to upload these to my site to link on
this thread.
Also, Nissan appears to have a HILUX immitation vehicle, but the Toyota outnumbers the Nissan model.
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Mango
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I thought is was this...
HiLux is very popular throughout the world. Here is a great video about them from the British show "Top-Gear"
You-Tube link
It's 20 minutes long.. but very funny... and amazing
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Sharksbaja
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Hey, I've seen hundreds in Baja that look just like the one in the vid.
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BajaWarrior
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sharksbaja
Hey, I've seen hundreds in Baja that look just like the one in the vid. |
That Toyota took a beating in the video.
One of them you've seen may have been mine. I own the identical model right down to the color!
Bought it new in 88' and retired it to Baja with 135,000 miles on it 13 years ago. Miles today are only 142,000. Garaged the whole time. Horses boats
and jet ski's in and out of the water no problem. Even pulls the occasional full size truck out of the deep sand.
33" BFG tires with 4 pounds of air.
[Edited on 7-19-2007 by BajaWarrior]
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Tomas Tierra
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this is not the 4 dr. But is an Aussie Hilux..
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Cap
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Central and South America have a large # of Rovers. Also diesel powered korean 4x4s as well. Aluminum bodied Rovers from the 60's are still going
strong. I haven't seen too many other makes last the same way
Fly low, land on roads.
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Ken Cooke
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My, we tend to venture off-topic when we know Ken is far, far away from Baja...
ˇˇHere is some (big) help, Amigos!!
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Bajalero
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I would love to have one of those with the D-4D engine in it Ken. Amazing Toyota doesn't offer one in the US
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marek
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I lived in Chile for a while and those trucks were all over the place. I asked the same questions back then about getting one in the US. My
understanding is that they don't meet the crash test / safety standards.
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Bajalero
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Good sites there Grover.
I like the looks of the Islander . A little overkill on the flotation but that would make a fine beach wagon
I wonder if you could drive a S. American Hilux into Mexico through all the different borders?
[Edited on 7-21-2007 by Bajalero]
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comitan
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Just got back from town(la Paz) saw a Hilux Pickup very new, from Tampico Vera Cruz, don't remember the dealer it was a 2.7 4 door.
[Edited on 7-21-2007 by comitan]
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