The thing to also remember is the Tacoma was a new model optimized for the North American market and wasn't just a renaming. The "Pickup" or Hilux continued on elsewhere in the world, and still exists in most international markets today .
This truck can run the Rubicon trail, right now, as it sits. You get a showroom Jeep, Rubicon edition, you'll bust an axle or blow a head gasket before the first trail marker.
Really? Which part of the Rubicon have you traveled? I have pulled my share of jeeps out with my 86 Yota, after boonie crashing through a creek and cracking their block. Any truck frame develops holes up north with that awful road salt, a Tacoma is no exception.
If only they brought this back. And priced it like a barebones small truck should be priced. I'd love to get that stripped down Hilux model they were showing off for the rest of the world.
This is an early 90’s “Pickup”. They started calling it the Tacoma in ~97ish, IIRC. The Hilux was the same truck underpinning, but we never had it under that banner in the US.
Marty’s was a mid 80’s Toyota Pickup with an aftermarket 4x4 package.
The Toyota Hilux, one of my legitimate automotive loves as a Saudi. This is the F150 work truck of the world outside America. In rural Arabia, where agriculture is almost the only thing people do for a living, you’ll find these like mosquitos everywhere on the trails between ranches. Ive genuinely wanted to know how these things manage to last longer than their owners whilst being driven every single day, sometimes 100s to 1000s of km per day, with several grown animals in the back, sometimes 50-60KG each, in heat that would make a white man melt in seconds (I’d almost be a preserved ice age human corpse in 5 seconds in Paris to be fair, each person has their strength). This sounds like classic F150 behavior to an American but this is a MEDIUM SIZE TRUCK. A FORD RANGER OR CHEVY COLORADO WOULD MAKE THE NEW 2025 HILUX GLX LOOK LIKE A BABY TOY. That’s what makes it so impressive. I love Hiluxes.
I had my eyes on one many years ago. It was just like this truck, except a beautiful root beer color. While I was trying to get enough money together to but it, it got sold. Broke my heart.
I had almost this exact same truck when I was 18. Except it was lifted higher, and was white with a chrome strip along the bottom of the doors and a chrome sunvisor. That was 22 years ago, and I still regret selling it all the time.
Not until they renamed it Tacoma in 1996. I grew up in this era and my parents wouldn't let me get a car without airbags, so I know pretty much when any vehicle sold in America got airbags lol I also grew up near Tacoma, so fun fact haha
That’s a 1990 Toyota Pickup! They weren’t called Tacoma until ‘95.
"What Toyota pickup truck is this?"
Yep, my dumbass kid-self thought they were the Toyota SR5 for a while because that was on the back of some of them.
Understandable. I didn’t know the official name was so self referential until pretty recently.
The thing to also remember is the Tacoma was a new model optimized for the North American market and wasn't just a renaming. The "Pickup" or Hilux continued on elsewhere in the world, and still exists in most international markets today .
This is how you build a pickup
Absolutely. This is 100% tougher than those full sized over lifted parking lot princess' on 22" chrome deep dishes
Mall Terrain Vehicles
This truck can run the Rubicon trail, right now, as it sits. You get a showroom Jeep, Rubicon edition, you'll bust an axle or blow a head gasket before the first trail marker.
That comparison had more holes than a Tacoma frame
Really? Which part of the Rubicon have you traveled? I have pulled my share of jeeps out with my 86 Yota, after boonie crashing through a creek and cracking their block. Any truck frame develops holes up north with that awful road salt, a Tacoma is no exception.
Then you know as well as I do a 1990 YJ with same lift and tires would do as well as you claim the subject truck would. Apples to apples, get it?
Those trucks were rock solid, very reliable and excellent off road .
If only they brought this back. And priced it like a barebones small truck should be priced. I'd love to get that stripped down Hilux model they were showing off for the rest of the world.
A 1990's Pickup
Isn't this the truck that Marty McFly got at the end of Back to the Future #1? Maybe in a different color, though?
His truck was an early 80s.
We've gotta go back to 1985! The pickups Marty! They were so simple and reliable!
Its the yellow “Back to the future Toyota” pretty much exactly
First i thought the same, but wasnt Martys car a Hilux?
edit: this car is missing the front crash bar and the cab design is different around the b pillar
Nope. We have never had new Hilux in the US.
This is an early 90’s “Pickup”. They started calling it the Tacoma in ~97ish, IIRC. The Hilux was the same truck underpinning, but we never had it under that banner in the US.
Marty’s was a mid 80’s Toyota Pickup with an aftermarket 4x4 package.
It’s just called the Toyota pickup, they hadn’t given it a proper name yet.
Toyota Hilux SR5
Very popular in Australia
I was about to saying isn't that just a Hilux? Perhaps they didn't have that name in the US.
In the rest of the world that's a hilux.
The Toyota Hilux, one of my legitimate automotive loves as a Saudi. This is the F150 work truck of the world outside America. In rural Arabia, where agriculture is almost the only thing people do for a living, you’ll find these like mosquitos everywhere on the trails between ranches. Ive genuinely wanted to know how these things manage to last longer than their owners whilst being driven every single day, sometimes 100s to 1000s of km per day, with several grown animals in the back, sometimes 50-60KG each, in heat that would make a white man melt in seconds (I’d almost be a preserved ice age human corpse in 5 seconds in Paris to be fair, each person has their strength). This sounds like classic F150 behavior to an American but this is a MEDIUM SIZE TRUCK. A FORD RANGER OR CHEVY COLORADO WOULD MAKE THE NEW 2025 HILUX GLX LOOK LIKE A BABY TOY. That’s what makes it so impressive. I love Hiluxes.
LN106 Hilux
SR5 I think?
Marty mcfly special
Like the Colour!!
That's exactly what it is
It looks like 4 runner
That generation of Hilux was a truly great little truck. Had a 1994 manual 2WD that I loved but constantly had to borrow my dad’s truck to tow.
This and the T100 are my favorites. I’d use this one to cruise and get groceries - the T100 for actual work.
I had my eyes on one many years ago. It was just like this truck, except a beautiful root beer color. While I was trying to get enough money together to but it, it got sold. Broke my heart.
I had almost this exact same truck when I was 18. Except it was lifted higher, and was white with a chrome strip along the bottom of the doors and a chrome sunvisor. That was 22 years ago, and I still regret selling it all the time.
Think McFly, think.
I think they called them a T100 back then.
"Where we're going, we don't need roads"
Theres a 0% chance of getting stuck in that thing
Crash into a wall, doors jam closed: boom! Stuck in that thing.
haha ya, probably no air bag either
Not until they renamed it Tacoma in 1996. I grew up in this era and my parents wouldn't let me get a car without airbags, so I know pretty much when any vehicle sold in America got airbags lol I also grew up near Tacoma, so fun fact haha
O please. I can get that stuck in 10 min from my house.
Tacoma