Comments on: Toyota Hilux Meets Its Match

By: altoids

altoids — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:08:13 +0000

Agreed. Comparing the reliability of an automatic to a manual is apples and oranges. The Hilux automatic (if such a thing exists), would stand up to USAF abuse just as well.

Of course, an automatic would never survive the same things that Hilux did. Nor, sadly, would a modern Hilux. Crumple zones would pancake any modern truck.

By: Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:09:11 +0000

They’d better order the beefed up suspension to handle Clarkson’s fat, fish-n-chips eatin a$$.

By: rpn453

rpn453 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:50:50 +0000

Yep, they don’t know how to drive a standard. Not a surprise.

By: Sajeev Mehta

Sajeev Mehta — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:40:08 +0000

I agree with the others. Not to bag on our armed forces, but tranny problems like that are usually operator error.

By: Frank Williams

Frank Williams — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:31:46 +0000

whatdoiknow1
Ummmm, Maybe far too many US soldiers today do NOT know how to drive a manual transmission equiped vehicle!

That is exactly the problem.

By: celica_ryder

celica_ryder — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:53:56 +0000

sure this has nothing to do with bailing out the big 2.8?

By: whatdoiknow1

whatdoiknow1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:30:15 +0000

“stripped synchronizers and chipped gears”

Ummmm, Maybe far too many US soldiers today do NOT know how to drive a manual transmission equiped vehicle!

By: Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:23:27 +0000

Well, not to spoil the Lee Greenwood vibe, but “America’s Finest” used to have a hell of a time not burning out the glow plugs on HUMVEEs. Apparently waiting for the light to go out before starting impeded one’s ability to blow camels up w/Mark 19’s.

Of course, that has nothing to do w/the Silverado’s reliability…which seems to be the current “warlord vehicle of choice” in Afghanistan. Maybe Chevy ought to run some Super Bowl ads w/an international flavor; say, ten armed guys standing in the bed of a Z71 as it drives past a poppy field…Bob Seger (in turban) driving of course.

By: Landcrusher

Landcrusher — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:58:49 +0000

That was a great bit by Top Gear. They still have that truck in their studio.

IMO, Clarkson would ensure the Silverado did not fair as well because he could not resist the contrast between the small, lovable Hilux, and the big, ugly, American truck.