#Toyota hilux

[beardedmrbean]

#toyota hilux

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Toyota Hilux GR Sport BR75 SUV Adventure Camper, 2023, by Direct Cars. A Japanese camper conversion based on the crew-cab Hilux that can sleep 2 adults and 2 children. There are solar panels in the roof and air-conditioning for the living quarters.

#Toyota #Toyota Hilux #Toyota Hilux GR Sport BR75 #camper #off road #RV #recreational vehicle #camper conversion #crew cab #Direct Cars #pop top #SUV Adventure Camper #2023

[eupat]

#toyota hilux #hilux #pickup

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

got any favorite cars from the 24 hours of lemons? (and perhaps some facts about them)

Sure, but not before explaining to the audience!

So, you know how, when you start your car, you turn the key and it starts, and you don't have to fiddle around trying to get the air/fuel mixture to make the damn thing run and stop embarrassing you? And how it has disc brakes, halogen lightbulbs if you've got the standard version and a wing if you've got the sporty one? Yeah, this is all thanks to the century-old 24 Hours of Le Mans, so coveted by manufacturers as to push them to develop all those innovations which would later trickle down into sportscars. They made two movies about it. It is, without question, the most prestigious, serious and expensive endurance race ever.

And this is the 24 Hours of Lemons - without question, the least prestigious, serious and expensive endurance race ever.

It is most famous for the rule that ensures that: to keep you from racing anything but a lemon, a beater, a crapcan, a piece of... well, by now even the unaware have figured out what lemon means in the car world, there is a budget cap. To be precise, $500. Yes, that includes both car and performance enhancing modifications - but notably exempt are safety equipment and decorations. I say notably because decorations are a key component of the Lemons atmosphere in a way I consider best conveyed by a "progressively gets worse" slideshow.

Yes, these are all real vehicles that raced. As you can imagine, regulations are pretty lax. And mostly vibe-based.

So, now that we're up to speed, my favorites!

Favorite as in greatest job from the team? Probably (although I am biased) the Eyesore Racing Miata.

And since you asked for some fun facts, I have a little treat for you that even the typically impeccable Donut Bumper (or lack thereof) to Bumper (or lack thereof) video about it missed out on:

The team won Lemons' coveted Best Use Of Dangerous Banned Automotive Technology award (yes that is a thing) by cleverly reusing the motor that used to drive the pop-up headlights!

Favorite as in coolest car used? That might be a tossup (i.e. I am not going to wait for the undoubtedly long list of cooler base cars to shower my mind so I will call it a tossup) between the Chrysler Conquest ran by multiple teams though Lemons' history (specifically the TSis for their sexy flared fenders)...

... and B-Team Racing's Lotus Elite (seen here in two of its many liveries) which, due to its newfound Chevy engine, earned it the name Chotus. Why yes there's a website.

Favorite as in most beautiful car used? That might be a tossup between French Foreign Legion Action Team's Peugeot 505...

...or the engine-swapped second generation Chevrolet Corvair Coupe of... wait, multiple teams?

Favorite in terms of most beautiful decorations? That might be a tossup between the Honda Accord of Stanford students team Buck Ferkeley...

...and SilverSleeve Racing's incredibly-engined frankensteined Wolseley Hornet (for when a Mini is just not coupe nor posh enough)

Favorite as in greatest combination? That might be a tossup between two incredibly different interpretations of sportscar + truck: the Boneyard Butchers' mix of Saturn Sky and Chevrolet Colorado -the more you look at it, the harder it goes-...

...or the Porsche Honkeys' outstanding take on the popular Porsche 944 + V8 recipe that came when they decided to use the rest of the Chevy C10 they got for the engine: the Mulletmobile.

Favorite as in the bravest, most heroic, most Lemons feat? Well, given Lemons started as a way to experience racing without the pressure and expectations of high-tier stuff and eternally heralds the notioon that a racecar is any car you race, how could I ever go with anything but the far-too-slow-for-any-steadiness-to-remedy, Cali-bought-and-roadtripped-to-Kansas Toyota motherfucking Chinook.

Favorite as in favorite team name? I doubt it, but here you go: Off To Gay Porn. They called themselves this to ensure everyone who beat them could proudly say they beat Off To Gay Porn! And as you could notice, yes, so many of them are this good.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

#24h of lemons #na mazda miata #chrysler conquest #mitsubishi starion #(they are the same car just different badges) #lotus elite #peugeot 505 #wolseley hornet #mini #saturn sky #chevrolet colorado #porsche 944 #chevy c10 #toyota hilux #toyota chinook

[thecargays]

Such a simple build… I need it.

#thecargays #cars #car blog #autos #custom car #classic car #Toyota hilux #Toyota #hilux #jdm #pickup truck #pickup #truck #trucks #minitruck #mini truck

[itracing]

Toyota Hilux 

Image by Artes Max || Twitter

#Toyota Hilux #artes max #toyota #rally #hilux

[hirocimacruiser]

Toy Story Pizza Planet Hilux inspired build.

#Toyota Hilux #Toy Story Hilux #Hilux #Toy Story

[thatyotalife]

©buck_lux10

#©buck_lux10 #toyota #toyota trucks #yota mafia #yota life #toyota hilux #hilux #hilux life #hilux nation #4x4 #offroad #overlanding #let's go places

[en-wheelz-me]

#toyota #hilux #hybrid #48v #cars 2024 #car #cars #truck #trucks #pickup #toyota hilux #hilux invincible

[toyotatumblin]

Tube framed Hilux drift truck.

#toyota #toyota hilux #hilux #drift #low truck

[possumcollege]

Star Wars fucked up by not including more wonky rebel technicals.

I hear some of the extended universe has some composite starfighters and such but come on, movies. How rebellious is your rebellion if you aren't bolting a crew-served weapon to a civilian vehicle and wrecking shit with it?

May I suggest:

an E-web riding shotgun in Luke's landspeeder

an ion cannon strapped into the bed of a Toyota Hilux. (the Hilux is future alien tech for the SW universe! )

pod-racer with a dushka pointed out the back, bootlegger-style

sand crawler with an entire firebase of space mortars on top

One of those trash can power droids with a recoilless rifle on its head

They praised Andor for being grittier and more realistic but idk. You can distribute speeches and manifestos all day but you haven't really rebelled until you put a door gun on a commercial vehicle to hose occupying troops.

#Star Wars #Andor #Rogue One #galactic empire #rebel alliance #galactic civil war #technicals #droids #toyota hilux #DIY #possumcollege #may the force be bolted to the bed of a 95 Toyota

[greatistheworld]

I don’t want to talk out of school here, but I think it’s unfair to compare midsize Toyota trucks to failed attack helicopter programs. Give the community time to heal 🤝💕

#illustration #eurocopter #toyota hilux #toyota #tacoma #procreate

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Toyota Hilux AT44 6×6 Camper, 2011, by Arctic Trucks. Their 6 wheeled version of the 7th generation Hilux fitted with a pop-top camper

#Toyota #Toyota Hilux AT44 6×6 #Toyota Hilux #Arctic Trucks #6x6 #6 wheels #camper #ATV #all terrain vehicle #2011 #pop top

[eupat]

#toyota #hilux #toyota hilux #offroad

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

There's some trans-esque quality about those truck caps that cover the beds of pickup trucks sometimes. They really change the silhouette and transform it into a different vehicle to my brain. Do you have any thoughts on that?

I sure do! For one, see my post on the most genderfluid car. And for two, that's literally actually happened to one of the biggest names in off-roading!

At the start of the 80s, Toyota sent over a handful of their Hiluxes (1500, to be exact - mainstream automakers have very big hands) to Winnebago, and no, not to make them into trucks, they had Chinook for that, but to make them cut the rear wall, install rear seats and a rear canopy -able but not really meant to be removed- and send them out the door as a Toyota Trekker.

When all of them sold, Toyota decided to make some of their own when the next Hilux came around.

Thus, the Toyota 4Runner: literally just a Hilux...

...with the rear wall removed for access to the rear seats and a rear roll bar to pretend they'd survive a rollover...

...with a rear canopy protecting it all.

Now, I personally don't really get this - this Hilux generation was sold with four doors, and why you wouldn't you rather tack a canopy onto that than have to shove your kids through the front doors? Maybe for the ability to fold the rear seats down and use that room for cargo?

Whatever it was, the 4Runner was extremely successful, successful enough to motivate Toyota to make the new one an actual different body instead of tacking shit onto a pickup... and to popularize the word SUV. Yup.

Oh, you could also still get this one as a three door, for some reason!

The 4Runner has since evolved away from the Hilux to the point of sharing nary a panel, and has become one of the biggest names in off-roading in its own right.

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

#toyota hilux #toyota trekker #toyota 4runner

[off-road-horses]

#toyota hilux #toyota #off road