As regular readers of the Top Gear Garage section of our magazine will know (or if you follow us on Twitter @topgeargarage), we’ve been battering our Hilux 3.0D Invincible for the past few months. It’s been treated as the office workhorse/carry-all/fire engine, but also as a private car for school runs and days out, gradually racking up about 9000 miles in five months. And you know what? It might not be the most refined thing ever to grace the TG underground bunker (the 3.0-litre four-cylinder is chuggy and industrial, but feels like it could run on treacle), but it has covered a lot of bases.
There’s a run-down of how it’s been doing in TG Mag next month, but we thought it might be fun to let all you TG Internet-types in to a bit of a project. Basically we’ve come up with a bit of an end-of-term jaunt for the Hilux, and in the best traditions of Top Gear and Hilux (remember the one we drowned/smashed/dropped off an exploding building? It still runs). It’s going to be a bit special. Now, we can’t reveal exactly where we’re going until later, but see if you can have a guess after you’ve seen what we’ve been doing…
Words: Tom Ford
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