Thread: New Hilux ad

Ah! vehicles made in an age where quality counted. Toyota had a knack for making vehicles elegant yet simple (in relative terms) when designers like Honda would make things better yet far too complicated for them to have ultimate longevity.
I think the Top Gear series where they attempted to kill the Hilux cemented its iconic status for the non Hilux owners
Land Rovers remained far too agricultural for continued wide spread appeal (I owned three of them)
Nissans never grabbed market share like the hiluxes did, but filled the towing niche well with their bigger donks

And now Land Rover have lost the plot completely. Its meant to follow in the footsteps of the old classic 'Defender' but err no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpB8okB-xw&t=719s

Mate up until a Yr ago had an 84 hilux thing was a beast and would go anywhere he sold it for good coin to

Originally Posted by XR500

Ah! vehicles made in an age where quality counted. Toyota had a knack for making vehicles elegant yet simple (in relative terms) when designers like Honda would make things better yet far too complicated for them to have ultimate longevity.
I think the Top Gear series where they attempted to kill the Hilux cemented its iconic status for the non Hilux owners
Land Rovers remained far too agricultural for continued wide spread appeal (I owned three of them)
Nissans never grabbed market share like the hiluxes did, but filled the towing niche well with their bigger donks

And now Land Rover have lost the plot completely. Its meant to follow in the footsteps of the old classic 'Defender' but err no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpB8okB-xw&t=719s

Been following that since the first check engine,light on the first run.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

My opinion is, the new Toyota adds have gone the same way the new Hilux's have.

Yeah opinions are worthless without credibility and you kinda stuffed that by mentioning the rodeo....

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

There are plenty of comments in various threads on this forum, from people who sell, maintain and drive Toyota's that suggest Toyota has pandered to the metro world and gone away from making rugged robust utes like they did in the old days. But I guess some professions can't help look passed the truth and push the outcome they want to see.

Total and utter bollocks.

What can you do? Pay for @7mmwsm to go over to the Pilbara or central WA and spend a couple of rotations in a massive open pit mine, in a work Hilux? To see for himself why the Hilux has always been and always will be the top selling industrial ute in the mining industry? Maybe that way he'd get a better look at the reality of the situation, rather than through the flawed optics of an internet forum.

It's quite a sight, the carpark where all the utes are stored after coming into Fremantle from Thailand. Rows and rows and rows of white SR Hilux, ready to go to work. Pandered to the metro world? Are you for real?!

All modern utes are rubbish compared to a LN65/LN106, who needs CRD, VSC, ESC, TRC, ABS, IFS, DAC, DPF, etc when you can have leaf springs and an asthmatic mechanically injected 2.4 n/a diesel

I worked open cast in the mid 80's In South Aus. Their Toyota fleet (of LWB and SWB cruisers) was 10 years old and still going strong. I am unsure just how long a modern day Lux is good for???

I'm pretty sure that you won't be able to buy an ecu for a modern 4x4 of any flavor in 30 years time, unlike the 4x4s of the late 80's/90's that are still going strong with spares a dime a dozen for toyos/nissans etc today

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

I'm pleased you won't let the rest of us play. Be a bit like getting invited to a 270 or 6.5 crud party.
I'll stick to my half a million km Rodeo thanks.

The Blue one!?

I’m pretty sure I remember a ride to Kawhia in that, as a primary school kid ha

I've had two Hilux, well one was a surf, I was pretty keen to get rid of the 2008 sheep shagger I mistakenly traded it for
Hidden costs the dealer didn't tell you about but that you had to have done to maintain your warranty purchased with the vehicles" just in case'

Injector seal problems , cracking pistons, early clutch burn outs
Yeah, great ute.

Got 560ks outta my 1990 80s series just toured whole of the south it's my daily driver, hunting truck and farm wag. Toyotas engines are bulletproof

Still the best hilux ad imho

One of the best ads was the one where the Rodeo from memory jumped into a corral.
Had one single cab flatdeck 4x4.
It wasn't a bad truck.

Old man had mitsi L200s because the hilux salesman pissed him off by not turning up when he said he would.

And too be honest there isn't much between them all they have 4 round black things that can get you far enough to get stuck.

All brands appear to have the odd horror story and the gist of most is the service or lack of it.

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For Toyota ads, the Ashley pub 10 years ago on a Friday evening was a Toyota sellers dream! Sadly, pubs are almost no-go zones these days thanks to the pleasure Gestapo. My 94 3.0 TD Surf used to be one of the Friday throng. I have owned it 16 years no and wouldn't be without it. It goes wherever I point it and with total reliability, mind you, I am not one of those off-roaders that like to get all four wheels off the ground or drive into unchecked rivers to see how deep they are! Needless to say, I do my own regular servicing.

Originally Posted by berg243

thats allright as i was happy with my mitsi that went further and took the abuse that me and my boy's gave it than those over priced hoelux's that cost nearly twice the money.

I to own a mitsi but I wish it was a hilux

Originally Posted by Mauser308

To be fair, I find its the bits that connect the black round things to the rest of the parts that seem to make or break the ute. Me ranger came with a lot of promises, but after putting four adults and some luggage in it and bottoming out on every bump it went back to mummy. Took a long time to sort that, Ford washed their hands of it and had to go aftermarket suspension to sort it out. Poxy modern sissy town cars with big boots...

Yet my Ranger is loaded to the gills with tools every day of the working week, pulls a trailer also loaded to the max and is then emptied and taken over the back at weekends