This video makes me proud to drive an old Toyota.
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This video makes me proud to drive an old Toyota.
The guys of the Top Gear show test cars: they drive them as fast as they can, etc... but in this video they're testing an old pickup to see how much hell it can take before it stops running.
The results... suprising.
The results... suprising.
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Good sir, I have a Respect for Toyotas that now cannot be equalled by any other car.
Good sir, I have a Respect for Toyotas that now cannot be equalled by any other car.
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He was the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car that week, IIRC. Set a new lap record, too, which lasted a few weeks.Dalton wrote:That looks like Simon Cowell...
And for those who don't know the program, Top Gear does stunts like this all the time. One of the best was when they raced a jetfighter and a stripped-down Jaguar with nitro...whatchamacallits on an aircraft carrier
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163503/triviaThe show has close links with the British military who have, among other things; tried to target a Range Rover Sport with a Challenger 2 tank; proved that a Hughes Apache attack helicopter cannot get a gun lock on a Lotus Exige; proved that snipers can still kill you even if you are driving a Mercedes SLK; set the fastest ever lap of the test track; and launched Stig One to his 'death' from the deck of HMS Ark Royal during a drag race between a modified Jaguar XJS and a Sea Harrier.
That game where they shoot cars at caravans is cool, too.
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The one with the Apache was very contrived. Though I guess most of them are. This one with the Toyota is probably the most straight forward.....Bounty wrote:He was the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car that week, IIRC. Set a new lap record, too, which lasted a few weeks.Dalton wrote:That looks like Simon Cowell...
And for those who don't know the program, Top Gear does stunts like this all the time. One of the best was when they raced a jetfighter and a stripped-down Jaguar with nitro...whatchamacallits on an aircraft carrier
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163503/triviaThe show has close links with the British military who have, among other things; tried to target a Range Rover Sport with a Challenger 2 tank; proved that a Hughes Apache attack helicopter cannot get a gun lock on a Lotus Exige; proved that snipers can still kill you even if you are driving a Mercedes SLK; set the fastest ever lap of the test track; and launched Stig One to his 'death' from the deck of HMS Ark Royal during a drag race between a modified Jaguar XJS and a Sea Harrier.
That game where they shoot cars at caravans is cool, too.
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Here's the movie of the tank vs. range rover.
That is the most awesome thing I have ever seen. When I saw the truck on the roof of the building, I just burst into laughter. And when it started, and then drove into the studio... wow. Just wow.
This is why I love British TV.
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Alright, I am only going to buy cars from Toyota, from now on, unless I see another video like that one from some other manufacturer. That was ASTONISHING.
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I seen a video of a Cavalier or somthing like it, racing in a mud pit. This group of guys was just pounding the shit out of the car and drove the hell out of it for about 4 hours. Near the end all you could see was smoke, and then they drove it into a small pond. The car stalled and I think somthing caught on fire.
Don't know if it started again, but probably not.
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Surprisingly there is some pieces of car good car underneath of all of that shitUraniun235 wrote:That's impossible. If you pounded out the shit, there wouldn't be a car left.Red Star wrote:This group of guys was just pounding the shit out of the car and drove the hell out of it for about 4 hours.
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Well, never noticed this thread here (damn you, fgalkin ). I loved when they showed the Challenger vs. Range Rover show, that was about the same time the HHGTTG movie came out, IIRC. Have to download that.
The Apache Longbow one was a tad unfair, since it needed a missile lock and normally they do that from afar behind trees, but it does show how nimble that new Lotus Elise model was, even if the 30 mm chaingun would've got it.
And as for the Toyota pickup, well, I doubt any car company today can make something quite like that beast. The DC-3 of trucks I expect.
The Apache Longbow one was a tad unfair, since it needed a missile lock and normally they do that from afar behind trees, but it does show how nimble that new Lotus Elise model was, even if the 30 mm chaingun would've got it.
And as for the Toyota pickup, well, I doubt any car company today can make something quite like that beast. The DC-3 of trucks I expect.
Heard about that one but never seen it till now. Brilliant.
Some other good ones from that show were as mentioned the Apache and the Challenger, Clarkson in a car on different shows beating May and Hammond in airplanes, trains and boats... then loosing to a guy on foot.
I also liked the Ford GT, Zonda and Farrari driving through the France... and getting stuck in an underground garage.
Some other good ones from that show were as mentioned the Apache and the Challenger, Clarkson in a car on different shows beating May and Hammond in airplanes, trains and boats... then loosing to a guy on foot.
I also liked the Ford GT, Zonda and Farrari driving through the France... and getting stuck in an underground garage.
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