{"id":47076,"date":"2017-01-20T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=47076"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:11:09","slug":"toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/toyota\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota @ 80: the brand’s greatest moments…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toyota is a prism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shine light through it and you can see a spectrum of automotive colour. As the company celebrates eighty years of automobile production, we thought we’d highlight some of the most towering achievements.<\/p>\n

1973: HiLux (2nd Gen)<\/em>
\nThere’s been a lot of sticky balls spoken and written about the HiLux and its indestructibility. Sure there’s a lot of these trucks still on the streets after a couple of hundred thousand miles – but this is not the main reason we love them. People forget what a cute little format the lifestyle pickup is. If you get it right the pickup is the perfect youth vehicle – a practical, two seat runabout that can haul anything from your dirt bike and your surfboards to your camping gear and friends. It was the second gen HiLux that really got a grip of this idea. There’s a three box simplicity to the HiLux concept that survives even longer than the trucks themselves. And yes, landscape gardeners, Arctic adventurers and Paris Dakar nut-cases love them too.<\/p>\n\n\t\t