Video: 2012 Toyota Hilux proves it’s as tough and unbreakable as ever

Filed under: Truck, Marketing/Advertising, Toyota, Australia

Top Gear showed us just how sturdy the Toyota Hilux pickup truck can be. The plucky Brit trio put one poor truck through a series of increasingly harder challenges until they finally strapped it to the roof of a building destined to be demolished. After pulling it off the pile [...]

Toyota sends four Hilux pickups across Antarctica à la Top Gear

Filed under: Truck, Work, Toyota, Specialty

Toyota Hilux goes to Antartica – Click above for high-res image gallery

Thanks in part to the work of the crew at Top Gear, the Toyota Hilux pickup has garnered a reputation for being all but unstoppable. Whether it’s being left to suffer at the hands of a rising tide, plummeting [...]

The 2009 Carsguide People’s Choice winners are….

Congratulations Ford Falcon

Best Family Car

Holden Commodore SIDI
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Best First Car

Ford Fiesta
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Best Commercial Vehicle

Toyota HiLux
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Best Prestige Car

Audi A6
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Best 4WD/SUV

Toyota Prado
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Best Performance Car

Maserati Gran Turismo
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Car sales boom

There’s a two-year waiting list of 60 buyers for the $580,00 Ferrari F458 Italia, and luxury brands BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi also had strong sales months.

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Toyota Hilux: Car of the Week

The only Ute ever to claim the title of Australia’s most popular vehicle doubles as a tradies workhorse and family transporter and has gone through six generations of updates and modifications worldwide.
First generation
The First generation Hilux, nicknamed RN10, was a short wheel base truck made between 1968 and 1971, and ran with a 1.5 [...]