I had a bunch of Hilux trucks in Brazil for mineral exploration. 2.8l 4 cylinder diesel engines were awesome. I personally owned a Toyota Landcruiser hardtop with 3l diesel engine. Loved that truck even if performance on highway was mediocre.
I don't understand why Ford doesn't donate hundreds of F-350's or some other model, use it as a tax write-off and for advertising. Built Ford tough, so tough it's combat tested...
IDK, pop used to say FORD stands for Found on Russian Dumps. He preferred his Chevy for farm work. :) And yes he had owned both over his years farming. But that was decades ago.
Error: The Toyota Hilux is attested in parts catalogs in the American market. It was offered here as the Pickup. I have owned a 1993 and a 1994 Hilux Pickup. They were available here, just from what I have seen, from the mid seventies to about 2004. In 1995 a differentiation occurred when the Hilux platform was no longer offered here in 1 ton capacity, to allow the new T100 to occupy that role. The last Hilux platform that was sold here was the 2004 model. In 2005, the last American market iteration of the Hilux, then called the Tacoma, abandoned the narrow chassis of the Hilux. I believe that was the moment that the Hilux sold in most of the world, ceased to be available here.
Great news! Thanks for posting. On a peaceful side, a Toyota product was the vehicle of choice when seen in National Geographic African nature/anthropological specials from the 1960s and 1970s.
Very interesting. NAFO has sent a lot of trucks to Ukraine via various charities but those trucks were modified for med evac, transport, or drone operators.
here in australia, the modern hiluxes got a reputation of breaking transmission components when loaded right up with tools and equipment. the light truck with the best reputation here is the isuzu. but really, if its japanese you cant go wrong.
Wrong over interpretation! In Ukraine the cars and SUVs are used less as gun platforms, but for logistics, troop transport, evacuation transport of the dead and injured etc. There is no real centralized logistics for all troops with trucks and trains anymore. 3rd brigade is the brigade used in most dangerous situations with highest losses in material (and people). The 30 pickups will barely survive one year. Ukraine is probably biggest european buyer of used 4x4 and SUVs and a big car graveyard.
I mean, Organizations like Nafo and Car for Ukraine have delivered hundreds of them to the AFU, you could join their fundraiser effort? At least they last a few weeks on the frontlines...
Yea Hi as in “hi there 👋” and lux as in luxury. One more thing. Northern Ireland? Never used by any organisation as a technical. You may be thinking of the Land Rover Defender used by the RUC and the British Army.
🇺🇦 thx, excellent report 🇺🇦. The Toyota war was 35 years ago. India must not have heard about it, because they have bought a lot of russian tanks since then.
Need to have hand crank start first off. Second is a very lightweight durable duel fuel engine preferably one that can run on kerosene and that is air cooled. 3rd is a transmission/power train that is mechanical only...if that means chain drive so be it. 4th is a suspension system that can of course support its own but then much much moar than that. 5th will be some type of electrical system for lighting possibly to run a GPS system and a two way radio set...should be able to be charged without a battery as well. 5th should be a battery actually one that can still operate even if upside down and strapped in so that it won't become dislodged in normal operation. Will need various guards to protect from flying debris. Will need a lot of these vehicles...mass produced ideally with a *"feedback mechanism"* for noting any faults during the production process that can be rectified during then. Ukraine has almost zero need for vehicles needs noting as well as already has too much mechanical contrivance but most important here this is a walking culture enhanced by rail work so vehicle demand for combat work is quite limited at this point in time with far larger demand for socks, combat boots, combat shovels, pick axes anything to quickly build fighting positions and proper drainage along foot paths and to make way for Horses not vehicles as this is not North Africa at all a brutal desert climate with not much in the way for life as a settlement option as opposed to Ukraine 😊
Every Ukrainian unit, on the front and behind, are asking for pickup trucks. Not for combat, but for everything else. Ukrainians might be tough, but they're not stupid. They don't use the Hilux as a combat vehicle. Technicals might be used in some forms by the ruzzians, but you hardly ever see them on the Ukrainian side at the zero line at the front. They're just far too vulnerable. Artillery rules the day at the front, and a Hilux gives zero protection against shrapnel. The one exception is their use as evacuation vehicles for wounded. They're nimble and fast, which sometimes is better than well protected, but large and slower.
They are not indestructible, unfortunately. It is 2024...... Toyota truck engines burn out in rough turrain, my neighbors had them and the ten mile muddy roads on a daily bases in and out took their tole. After two years four of four failed driven by four different neighbors. Some Toyotas are great, but they are not indestructible by far
Holy hell man, do some quality review of the literature and background on your subject. I've been driving the "high luxury" or HiLux in one variant or another for 40+ years. I've never heard it pronounced the "Hee Lix" even in Latin America. Fail.
Hilux, not 'Helux', sorry.
Pronounced 'Hi-lux' mate.👍
High lux. As in high luxury.
Pronounced, highlux.
High luxury... the top selling Ute in Australia 🇦🇺, so many parts, so much add on parts
I had a bunch of Hilux trucks in Brazil for mineral exploration. 2.8l 4 cylinder diesel engines were awesome. I personally owned a Toyota Landcruiser hardtop with 3l diesel engine. Loved that truck even if performance on highway was mediocre.
Thanks!!!
Thank you for the insight!
Ah yes, the King of Technical platforms! Very Nice!
You better do a commercial for the Mitsubishi Trident and Nissan Navara now! And all the LandRovers running troops around the front.
Azov got Hilux back in 2014, byw. Loved em
Fascinating!
I don't understand why Ford doesn't donate hundreds of F-350's or some other model, use it as a tax write-off and for advertising. Built Ford tough, so tough it's combat tested...
IDK, pop used to say FORD stands for Found on Russian Dumps. He preferred his Chevy for farm work. :)
And yes he had owned both over his years farming. But that was decades ago.
There are many more Mitsubishi Triton pickups being used, a few Nissan Frontiers and Ford Rangers
Error: The Toyota Hilux is attested in parts catalogs in the American market. It was offered here as the Pickup. I have owned a 1993 and a 1994 Hilux Pickup. They were available here, just from what I have seen, from the mid seventies to about 2004. In 1995 a differentiation occurred when the Hilux platform was no longer offered here in 1 ton capacity, to allow the new T100 to occupy that role. The last Hilux platform that was sold here was the 2004 model. In 2005, the last American market iteration of the Hilux, then called the Tacoma, abandoned the narrow chassis of the Hilux. I believe that was the moment that the Hilux sold in most of the world, ceased to be available here.
Great news! Thanks for posting. On a peaceful side, a Toyota product was the vehicle of choice when seen in National Geographic African nature/anthropological specials from the 1960s and 1970s.
Older models pre 2000 are strong but after electronics failures when ubused.
'High Luxx' brother
Very interesting. NAFO has sent a lot of trucks to Ukraine via various charities but those trucks were modified for med evac, transport, or drone operators.
here in australia, the modern hiluxes got a reputation of breaking transmission components when loaded right up with tools and equipment. the light truck with the best reputation here is the isuzu. but really, if its japanese you cant go wrong.
You asked for it, you got it. To-yo-ta.
Better than a cybertruck.
Toyotas have proven their battlefield utility as technicals and logistical vehicles in a couple of wars. Not just in Chad.
If you buy a cybertruck, does that make you a cyberschmuck? :)
@ThadGuardi No, but it does show a lack of battlefield preparedness.
Battle field tested Toyota
this is far more practical than some "cybertruck" ...Huh Huh! 😄！
toyota doesnt brick its trucks from thousands of miles away.
Indestructible? Please avoid clickbaits in future. You know it better, don`t you?
Well, it's a little better than a golf cart.
Hi - Lux
Wrong over interpretation! In Ukraine the cars and SUVs are used less as gun platforms, but for logistics, troop transport, evacuation transport of the dead and injured etc. There is no real centralized logistics for all troops with trucks and trains anymore. 3rd brigade is the brigade used in most dangerous situations with highest losses in material (and people). The 30 pickups will barely survive one year. Ukraine is probably biggest european buyer of used 4x4 and SUVs and a big car graveyard.
I mean, Organizations like Nafo and Car for Ukraine have delivered hundreds of them to the AFU, you could join their fundraiser effort? At least they last a few weeks on the frontlines...
BUTTtttt,... Now there are drones.. So, don't fight a war from the past..
Yea Hi as in “hi there 👋” and lux as in luxury.
One more thing. Northern Ireland? Never used by any organisation as a technical. You may be thinking of the Land Rover Defender used by the RUC and the British Army.
The problem is, how will they get more people?
It's pronounced High Lux Hi Lux!!
It's not as good as it used to be ..they used to be unbreakable!!
Not anymore!!
3:59 Land Rover Defender 😄
🇺🇦 thx, excellent report 🇺🇦. The Toyota war was 35 years ago. India must not have heard about it, because they have bought a lot of russian tanks since then.
Yes, but Europe ( if it comes from there ? ) doesn't have the non interference V6
Need to have hand crank start first off. Second is a very lightweight durable duel fuel engine preferably one that can run on kerosene and that is air cooled. 3rd is a transmission/power train that is mechanical only...if that means chain drive so be it. 4th is a suspension system that can of course support its own but then much much moar than that. 5th will be some type of electrical system for lighting possibly to run a GPS system and a two way radio set...should be able to be charged without a battery as well. 5th should be a battery actually one that can still operate even if upside down and strapped in so that it won't become dislodged in normal operation. Will need various guards to protect from flying debris. Will need a lot of these vehicles...mass produced ideally with a *"feedback mechanism"* for noting any faults during the production process that can be rectified during then. Ukraine has almost zero need for vehicles needs noting as well as already has too much mechanical contrivance but most important here this is a walking culture enhanced by rail work so vehicle demand for combat work is quite limited at this point in time with far larger demand for socks, combat boots, combat shovels, pick axes anything to quickly build fighting positions and proper drainage along foot paths and to make way for Horses not vehicles as this is not North Africa at all a brutal desert climate with not much in the way for life as a settlement option as opposed to Ukraine 😊
HI Lux
It’s pronounced ‘ high lux’
not HE-LUX.....it is HIGH-LUX
Hi-lux not helix. Yikes.😢😂😂😂
Toyota: 100 , Russia: 3 . Toyota wins.
Every Ukrainian unit, on the front and behind, are asking for pickup trucks. Not for combat, but for everything else. Ukrainians might be tough, but they're not stupid. They don't use the Hilux as a combat vehicle. Technicals might be used in some forms by the ruzzians, but you hardly ever see them on the Ukrainian side at the zero line at the front. They're just far too vulnerable. Artillery rules the day at the front, and a Hilux gives zero protection against shrapnel. The one exception is their use as evacuation vehicles for wounded. They're nimble and fast, which sometimes is better than well protected, but large and slower.
Going Toyota technical is a force multiplier!
Battle proven Toyota technicals.
They are not indestructible, unfortunately. It is 2024...... Toyota truck engines burn out in rough turrain, my neighbors had them and the ten mile muddy roads on a daily bases in and out took their tole. After two years four of four failed driven by four different neighbors. Some Toyotas are great, but they are not indestructible by far
Toyota wars again!
Holy hell man, do some quality review of the literature and background on your subject. I've been driving the "high luxury" or HiLux in one variant or another for 40+ years. I've never heard it pronounced the "Hee Lix" even in Latin America. Fail.
How much of this channels income are you giving to Ukrainian victims of the war you’re profiting from?
What are you doing?
Never heard of that Hilux before your video. Toyota trucks and SUVs in general just have incredible reputations off the blacktop.
Hi- Lux…these AI created videos are BS