The only way to stop a bad guy with a Hilux is to send a good guy with a Hilux. Or something...
The only way to stop a bad guy with a Hilux is to send a good guy with a Hilux. Or something...
How will they identify themselves to friendly UAV drivers? I wouldn’t want to be cruising around in a Hilux in any area where there are Predators on patrol, looking for bad guys in, er..., Hiluxes. However, that’s only reason #21543254 why I’m not in the military.
I love this little museum. When I visited, there was no roof on the Messerschmitt, so I climbed in. It was a bit cramped in the front seat, but I could pretty much reach all the controls from the rear. It was amazing to see such diversity within a Toyota museum.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
Oh yes, it still makes all those wonderful noises. HJ Stuck was not hanging back up the hillclimb course, so we got to hear all the chirps and whooshes. A friend took video footage on his phone which I can listen to over and over again.
It’s an interesting side story to the usual European and US racing scenes. I’d never heard of it before this past weekend.
Not a tube-frame, but an IMSA drivetrain placed into an S4 body. It’s official name is Audi IMSA S4 GTO, just like it’s 90 progenitor.
Are you kidding? I just told you like a minute ago!
It’s an inline 5 cylinder with a gearbox behind it, which would be great for a RWD car. When you need to get drive from that gearbox to the front wheels too, it gets very complicated unless you just push the engine forward until you can get them to line up. Audi did this in extremis, so the front of the engine is…
Hey Stef, this is a fortuitous coincidence. I learned at Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb this week something new about the IMSA Audis. Once they were done in the US, Audi looked around for an equivalent championship to continue racing the cars in, and found one in South Africa. The only problem was that the 90 was never sold…
Pontius Payet?
Hey David, you forgot to mention that the skilled and experienced driver for this exercise is “Jalopnik’s own” Dale Lomas!
That was awesome! I read his blog afterwards, and he wrote that he was selecting first gear to get going again while the car was still upside down. Legendary.
Relying on the service crew to fix it with proper tools? Pah!
Kimi looked like he was having fun. He seems most at ease when he’s driving (or drinking) and someone else is doing all the talking. Far better than answering inane questions or promoting some random company you’d never heard of before they started sponsoring you.
Midori* with envy.