The Truck That Would Not Die And Other Top Gear Shenanigans, Now on MotorTrend

摘要

Igrew up driving a 1983 Toyota truck, a slow, four-cylinder 4x4 Hilux that was my parents' answer to a question too many police officers asked me in my short 16 and a half years on this planet: 'Son, do you know how fast you were driving?' Although it was a lot slower than the sports car that got me three speeding tickets in the first six months of my provisional license, I grew to love the rugged, go-anywhere quality of that Hilux. So it should come as no surprise which episodes of Top Gear I love the most. In episodes 5 and 6 of Season 3, Jeremy Clarkson and James May set about tormenting a well-used and rusted-out 1988 Toyota pickup. They run it into a tree, drive it through a shack, allow the Severn Estuary's tidal surge to submerge it for hours, drop a travel trailer on it, bash it with a wrecking ball, and set it afire in an attempt at a mercy killing. Still, the sturdy Toyota keeps running. For the coup de grace, they helicopter that poor, battered Hilux to the top of a condemned apartment block-before dynamiting the entire building out from under it. I won't spoil the ending, but let's just say that the Toyota emerges with little more than its reputation intact.