The thing about the Hilux is, you don't need off-roading skills for it. You just put the hammer down and go. All other vehicles will eventually break while the Hilux will go forever .
Seriously, any street rig will need some modifications. The Hilux, a jeep, or any other normal street vehicle will need locked axles. But that's really all you need, with some good off-road tires.
Jakg , rule three says "-Don't post videos that shows the opponents of your favourite in a "Trail rated for the mall" type of video." so please remove it.
@mrodgers: Hilux has locked diff, on the back at least. Plus the standard tyres are fairly good off-road, they're not exactly knobblys, but with 4WD, locked diff and low-range gears on, it hasn't gotten stuck here yet, in the worst Irish weather, in the muckiest fields and river beds
What you may call the Hilux may be the Tacoma for me. The Tacoma, came about in 1995, does have a locked diff available. Anything before 1995, which is the Hilux, does not have a locked diff. They were open diffs front and rear.
I also have never gotten stuck in any of my Toyotas. I've been temporarily hindered in movement, but have always been able rectify the situation without being pulled or using a winch/come-a-long.
We haven't had a Tacoma over this side of the pond, but wiki says it just a rebadged Hilux. We've been using them where I am working for ~15 years, and are currently on the 3rd. Only because some tool wrote off the last one It's the '06 one we have now, which I believe is still the same as the new ones now. These have locked diff, low-range gears, etc. Not too sure on the other ones, I can't remember them
They definitely survive everything, ours hasn't gotten stuck yet, and we don't even have a winch on it, or any other vehicle to tow it
As seen on Top Gear, they're also completely indestructible
Yup, after looking up Toyota UK, Tacoma is what you guys have as the Hilux. The Hilux to me is pre Tacoma era, thus no locking diff available. It is in the Tacoma though as I said, which is the Hilux.
I'd still take the old Toyota Hilux (my version) over the Tacoma any day. Light, cheap, and with a few mods (add locking diffs and the Marlin Crawler dual t-case) it will go ANYWHERE without you even being in the truck.
The answer to this is none of the above my personal choice would be a mecerds G-wagen or a volvo c303.landrovers are great but they break way to easy the halfshafts are made of match sticks and i just wouldnt trust them at all.oyotas are the best for expeditition use they are practially bullet proof jeeps like landrovers are good but also break way to easy Hummers seem to be more for rappers then the great outdoors and buggys with 2 wheel drive aint going to get u to far