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"Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@a1.nl> wrote in
news:Xns944BE7494D406wjmarkerinka1nl@130.133.1.4:
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> For those who don't watch the BBC...
>
> Their "Top Gear" programme has been testing the thesis that a Toyota
> pickup is indestructible. They bought an old pickup truck (Hilux?
> 4-runner? I'm not good at pick-ups) and:
>
> - drove it into a tree
> - drowned it in the Bristol Channel (completely immersed in salt water
for
> 12 hours, the tie-downs were broken by rip tide) - hit it with a wrecking
> ball on the end of a demolition crane - drove it through a shed - dropped
> a caravan on it - set fire to it
>
> And it still started and ran (all they did was use ordinary tools + new
> oil & fuel)
>
> Finally last night they placed it on top of a 240 foot tower block that
> was then completely demolished by explosives. They pulled it out of the
> wreckage, added fuel and oil, and it ran - just.
>
> Insane, but impressive!
>
> Christopher Bell
> Devon, UK
> 1996 1HD-FT
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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As you maybe aware the BBC's weekly motoring programme Top Gear recently
decided to test how tough these 4X4s are as the vehicle appears everywhere
in news reports serving a mutlitude of various roles all over the world
The base vehicle was a 15 year old heap purchased for about £1,200.00 less
that $2,000.00 from a farmer where it had had a hard life having clocked up
over 130,000 miles and the body work was showing it......
Test 1
Drive it at 30mph into a tree ( front right courner - driver's side in the
UK )
Result - Bent bull bar, broken light & front panel damage
Truck carries on
Test 2
Drive it around Bristol, an old industrial town.
Trough tight streets where it ripped out huge stones from 150 year old
walls, down lots of steps & generally bash it about
Result - some more panel damage
Truck carries on
Test 3
Drop it 30 foot from a crane
No damage
Truck carries on
Test 4
Drop a caravan on it from 30 feet
Result - Top lip of bed is bent
Truck carries on
Test 5
Trash the truck
No apparent Damage
Truck carries on
Test 6
The Wash
Strap the vehicle down to the pier in the Bristol Channel
This has one of the Strongest and fastes Tidal Flows in the British Isles
and wait for the tide to come in
Initial Damage
Windows blown out by tide
Then
The 3" diameter mooring ropes ( used by the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution ) tethering down the vehicle break under the strain and the
vehicle is swept out to sea.
Several hours later when the tide has gone out the vehicle is found several
miles away partially burried in the estury bed.
Vehicle is righted and after drying out & a bit of water dispersing oil &
some petrol poured directly into the carb it starts up.
Truck carries on
New windscreen put in so it can be driven legally on the road to.....
Test 7
Wrecking ball
Bash it around by swinging a wrecking ball into it.
Result - severe dent to rear tail gate.
Truck carries on
Test 7
Fire
Set light to interior & bed then stand well back
Return to truck after fire has gone out.
Result - Interior blackened - new windscreen cracked
Some minor tinkering & truck starts
Truck carries on
No major parts were replaced during or after any of the test.
Oils were checked & topped up if necessary
Only minor tinkering by 1 mechanic with the most basic tools was allowed
This week
Test 8
Demolition
Place the same battered old truck near the top of a 20 storey block of
flats
Then
Blow it all up
Truck falls over 150 feet along with building it is on
Wait for dust to settle
Unearth truck ( rather roughly with digger ) which is on its roof and roll
( several times ) it to the bottom of the pile of rubble some 30 feet
Result - Major body damage
Cracked chassis frame. Body work is holding vehicle & frame together
Some minor tinkering and truck starts
Truck carries on
&
Drives into Studio
The presenters suggested retiring the truck & putting on a platform as a
statue to its toughness which the whole audience agreed with.
All the time there was this "Gun Fight at the OK Coral" music playing which
really set the scene
Cool compulsive viewing
Makes you proud to own one
I hope Toyota use it in their marketing
Now lets try it with a Land Rover and a Jeep. We'll have a short program.
Joe
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Btw, you don't want to try this with a LR either....)
(gasoline turbo)
http://home.attbi.com/~rkrenn/bigballs.wmv
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
)))"Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@a1.nl> wrote in
news:Xns944BE7494D406wjmarkerinka1nl@130.133.1.4:
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> For those who don't watch the BBC...
>
> Their "Top Gear" programme has been testing the thesis that a Toyota
> pickup is indestructible. They bought an old pickup truck (Hilux?
> 4-runner? I'm not good at pick-ups) and:
>
> - drove it into a tree
> - drowned it in the Bristol Channel (completely immersed in salt water
for
> 12 hours, the tie-downs were broken by rip tide) - hit it with a wrecking
> ball on the end of a demolition crane - drove it through a shed - dropped
> a caravan on it - set fire to it
>
> And it still started and ran (all they did was use ordinary tools + new
> oil & fuel)
>
> Finally last night they placed it on top of a 240 foot tower block that
> was then completely demolished by explosives. They pulled it out of the
> wreckage, added fuel and oil, and it ran - just.
>
> Insane, but impressive!
>
> Christopher Bell
> Devon, UK
> 1996 1HD-FT
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As you maybe aware the BBC's weekly motoring programme Top Gear recently
decided to test how tough these 4X4s are as the vehicle appears everywhere
in news reports serving a mutlitude of various roles all over the world
The base vehicle was a 15 year old heap purchased for about £1,200.00 less
that $2,000.00 from a farmer where it had had a hard life having clocked up
over 130,000 miles and the body work was showing it......
Test 1
Drive it at 30mph into a tree ( front right courner - driver's side in the
UK )
Result - Bent bull bar, broken light & front panel damage
Truck carries on
Test 2
Drive it around Bristol, an old industrial town.
Trough tight streets where it ripped out huge stones from 150 year old
walls, down lots of steps & generally bash it about
Result - some more panel damage
Truck carries on
Test 3
Drop it 30 foot from a crane
No damage
Truck carries on
Test 4
Drop a caravan on it from 30 feet
Result - Top lip of bed is bent
Truck carries on
Test 5
Trash the truck
No apparent Damage
Truck carries on
Test 6
The Wash
Strap the vehicle down to the pier in the Bristol Channel
This has one of the Strongest and fastes Tidal Flows in the British Isles
and wait for the tide to come in
Initial Damage
Windows blown out by tide
Then
The 3" diameter mooring ropes ( used by the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution ) tethering down the vehicle break under the strain and the
vehicle is swept out to sea.
Several hours later when the tide has gone out the vehicle is found several
miles away partially burried in the estury bed.
Vehicle is righted and after drying out & a bit of water dispersing oil &
some petrol poured directly into the carb it starts up.
Truck carries on
New windscreen put in so it can be driven legally on the road to.....
Test 7
Wrecking ball
Bash it around by swinging a wrecking ball into it.
Result - severe dent to rear tail gate.
Truck carries on
Test 7
Fire
Set light to interior & bed then stand well back
Return to truck after fire has gone out.
Result - Interior blackened - new windscreen cracked
Some minor tinkering & truck starts
Truck carries on
No major parts were replaced during or after any of the test.
Oils were checked & topped up if necessary
Only minor tinkering by 1 mechanic with the most basic tools was allowed
This week
Test 8
Demolition
Place the same battered old truck near the top of a 20 storey block of
flats
Then
Blow it all up
Truck falls over 150 feet along with building it is on
Wait for dust to settle
Unearth truck ( rather roughly with digger ) which is on its roof and roll
( several times ) it to the bottom of the pile of rubble some 30 feet
Result - Major body damage
Cracked chassis frame. Body work is holding vehicle & frame together
Some minor tinkering and truck starts
Truck carries on
&
Drives into Studio
The presenters suggested retiring the truck & putting on a platform as a
statue to its toughness which the whole audience agreed with.
All the time there was this "Gun Fight at the OK Coral" music playing which
really set the scene
Cool compulsive viewing
Makes you proud to own one
I hope Toyota use it in their marketing
Now lets try it with a Land Rover and a Jeep. We'll have a short program.
Joe
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Btw, you don't want to try this with a LR either....
)(gasoline turbo)
http://home.attbi.com/~rkrenn/bigballs.wmv
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
<w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
