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I like the 2012 Toyota Hilux. I'd buy one if had the money. It's one of the reliable cars in the world. Structual sound, 4 stars Encap, and its predecessors have the reputation to be indestructible.

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Originally Posted by joshsam

I like the 2012 Toyota Hilux. I'd buy one if had the money. It's one of the reliable cars in the world. Structual sound, 4 stars Encap, and its predecessors have the reputation to be indestructible.

I had no idea until recently that toyota still made the hilux. They moved to the Tocoma and Tundra in the US back in the 90s. Here is the 2013 Toyota Tundra


But if you want a pickup, the F150 is the king of trucks.

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The Hilux is no longer sold in the United States because of some stupid tariff called the Chicken Tax. Car makers found various ways to get around it over the years, but they gave up in the 80s and 90s, so there haven't been any imported pickup trucks sold here in a long time.

Toyota trucks don't have the rock-hard reputation here that they have elsewhere. Their passenger vehicles are thought to be very reliable, and have a vastly inflated resale value because of this, but the only trucks that Americans respect (and argue about) are from domestic brands. The general theme of our three main trucks is that Dodge (now called Ram) trucks are powerful but unreliable, Chevrolet and GMC (same truck, different badge) trucks are reliable but weak, and Ford trucks are a reasonable middle ground. Ford has consistently made the best selling full-size trucks with the F-series since the late 70s.

Ford and Dodge quit trying to sell smaller trucks during the Great Financial Hullabaloo and quit building them shortly after, so now GM is the only domestic manufacturer building a midsize pickup and therefore they get all the municipal and commercial fleet sales for compact pickups. Currently, Nissan and Toyota's trucks are a more modern design than our Chevrolet Colorado and are better in almost every way, but since they're foreign brands they are almost never used as a work truck.. more like a giant, open-top family station wagon, or a personal commuter with a big box attached.

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Originally Posted by weava

I had no idea until recently that toyota still made the hilux. They moved to the Tocoma and Tundra in the US back in the 90s. Here is the 2013 Toyota Tundra

I know but the Hilux is just that standard old fashioned pick up truck and that's what I like about it

Originally Posted by weava

But if you want a pickup, the F150 is the king of trucks.

I know I see them once in a while. But european roads aren't made for such huge cars. Lanes on secundairy roads just aren't wide enough for cars with that size, parking would be a hell, not to mention what it drinks... fuel is 3 times more expensive here than in the states...

[weava]

Originally Posted by joshsam

I know but the Hilux is just that standard old fashioned pick up truck and that's what I like about it




I know I see them once in a while. But european roads aren't made for such huge cars. Lanes on secundairy roads just aren't wide enough for cars with that size, parking would be a hell, not to mention what it drinks... fuel is 3 times more expensive here than in the states...

I used to drive a 1990 toyota pickup(called hilux in rest of world I guess?) and it was awesome, I liked its plain styling way better than the Tacoma.
you can get a f150 with MPG in the 20s, that's better than some of the larger cars in Europe. And you can't lump all of Europe together by saying the roads aren't big enough, while a F150 couldn't handle some towns/cities, you could easily drive a truck that size anywhere where full size cars are common such as Germany or Switzerland.

[joshsam]

Originally Posted by weava

And you can't lump all of Europe together by saying the roads aren't big enough, while a F150 couldn't handle some towns/cities, you could easily drive a truck that size anywhere where full size cars are common such as Germany or Switzerland.

To what I've seen, our Belgian roads are one of the widest in all European countries I've been so far. Ok German auotbahn is wider, but not always, and German secondairy roads are for sure not wider than Belgian ones.

Actually, Belgian main roads (not the highways) and 2x2lane expressways with level crossing where desinged afther the USA ones.
My observation is that in Belgium most roads aren't build for such big cars. Try finding a fitting parking spot, I dare you. Don't even try driving that monster in an underground carpark because you'll get stuck

The hood of a new F150 is the same height of the roof of small citycars overhere
Even almost as high as middle big car overhere:




In this road video, filmed on a main road (N-roads), there is a pickuptruck in the beginning on the right of the driver. That's a mid sized truck my guess, I don't know what brand, but look of the size of it compaired to the road and other traffic...



here is another video to show you the scale of main roads in Belgium. Look to the cars, all small models, lanes are wide enough but imagine a F150 driving there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzn_qSEJ8wc

[weava]

Originally Posted by joshsam

To what I've seen, our Belgian roads are one of the widest in all European countries I've been so far. Ok German auotbahn is wider, but not always, and German secondairy roads are for sure not wider than Belgian ones.

Actually, Belgian main roads (not the highways) and 2x2lane expressways with level crossing where desinged afther the USA ones.
My observation is that in Belgium most roads aren't build for such big cars. Try finding a fitting parking spot, I dare you. Don't even try driving that monster in an underground carpark because you'll get stuck

The hood of a new F150 is the same height of the roof of small citycars overhere
Even almost as high as middle big car overhere:


In this road video, filmed on a main road (N-roads), there is a pickuptruck in the beginning on the right of the driver. That's a mid sized truck my guess, I don't know what brand, but look of the size of it compaired to the road and other traffic...

here is another video to show you the scale of main roads in Belgium. Look to the cars, all small models, lanes are wide enough but imagine a F150 driving there:

In Germany the 5 series BMW's are one of the top selling cars. In comparison

5-series
length 193 inches
width 73

f150, 2 door short bed
length 213
width 78

range rover
length 196
wideth 78

not a huge difference in size. I also saw several ranger rovers in Switzerland when I was there last year and they are just as wide as a f150. I drove an extended cab f150 at work for awhile and they can suck to park even in the US sometimes.

The truck in that video was a Dodge Ram, not sure what year so I just pulled up the smallest ram 1500 from 2005 and it would be 207 inches in length, 79in wide which is pretty comparable to a f150

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