[Gus]

Did anyone catch the British automotive show "Top gear" on the Discovery channel, wednesday evening; it gave us Toyota guys and gals one more thing to brag about. I guess over the corse of a year they've tried to destroy a late 80'sish Hilux diesel. They set it on fire, hit it with a wrecking ball a few times, submerse it in the ocean, then set it a top an old apartment building that was going to be demolished/blown up. After each torture session they were not allowed to use any new parts (used or new), they could only use basic hand tools and what was left of the rig to get it running and moving under it's own power. They managed to get the truck running and moving after each of these torture tests, even after it plummeted a few hundred feet into a pile of rubble. The body work was gone and the frame had almost completely snapped in half, but it still ran and moved under it's own power. The show is pretty entertaining, worth checking out for all motorheads.