Off Road & 4×4

Toyota HiLux Dakar 2012

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

This is the business. It’s nearly Dakar time once again, here’s the Toyota HiLux entry in the modified production class. Turn up the volume…

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Toyota 6 Wheeler Ute? You Need These Guys

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

Some deep, deep Googling in search for Landcruiser FJ60/62 repair panels for my ‘Cruiser unearthed this great website. Based in Queensland, Australia, RWV Conversions specialise in making your Landcruiser into a double cab pickup or a six wheeler. You might well thing, ‘well why not just buy a Hi Lux?’ but by taking a Landcruiser [...]

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Arctic Trucks Hi Lux Iceland Tour – Video

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

Just another quick post, Arctic Trucks on tour around Iceland, some great camera work and lots of lovely landscapes and Hi Lux Arctic Truck action….. That’s all, really, just thought you should see it!

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ICON Landcruiser FJ40

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

There’s quite a long wait if you have the funds to commit to having one of these ultimate Landcruisers built, but this one is available immediately. The wealthy owner shipped it to Norway and the Canary Islands before deciding that he needed the extra space of the FJ45 – as you do… So with less [...]

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Landcruiser Ferry Crossing

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

Have to say, I’d be really nervous if it was mine, but these guys seem to know what they’re doing, ferrying a Landcruiser 78 Pickup across a river using these two punts. There’s a bit of frantic bailing at the end, will they make it?

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Landcruisers I Have Known…

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

A bit of a self indulgent post this one, but this year is the 60th anniversary of the Toyota Landcruiser, so humour me. I was searching an old hard drive at the weekend for something entirely unconnected and found these shots of Landcruisers that had passed through my hands in a previous career in the [...]

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For When 4×4 Isn’t Enough

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

Just sharing a vid from those guys at Arctic Trucks. I’m a sucker for thier products, been a fan for years, even though I’ve not made it to Iceland yet. Here’s their 6×6 Toyota HiLux in action. I’d love to see more about how that middle diff casing looks on the inside!

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If Santa Didn’t Have Rudolph….

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

He’d have an Arctic Trucks Hi Lux. Made globally famous on TV in the Top Gear Arctic Challenge, they’ve been busy in the Antarctic once again, being used as transportation for Indian National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) to study snow chemistry and conduct glacial research. Here’s the full info from Toyota and [...]

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Landcruisers Really Are Bullet Proof

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

A couple of years ago, I was working at a test track somewhere in the UK. Behind a building I discovered a whole row of Landcruiser 100 series in dull paint jobs with implausibly thick glass. A closer look revealed an awful lot of buttons and switches inside that weren’t standard. I was forbidden from [...]

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A Landcruiser Breakdown? Surely Not….

by Neill Off Road & 4x4

It’s time for me to confess now. I drive a lot of miles across the UK and into Europe each year, but until recently, I didn’t have breakdown cover. I know, I know, I should have done it before, but like many people, I’ve simply been winging it along the lines of the ‘it won’t [...]

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