Jaysus on a motor cycle, you have more money or time to spend getting the things fixed than I do. Used to love the Hilux's, but had a string of stupid issues. Then when with one ute Toyota refused to support the thing under warranty due to claiming that there was incorrect servicing being performed and when their stealership were the only ones doing the servicing that's when we all decided another supplier might be in order. The ute that caused that argument and toy chucking suffered a completely worn out engine in less than 100,000Km's, it was returning a measured 56L/100Km when it was pulled and kicked to touch. It wasn't chipped or stuffed about with, and Toyota were the only ones doing the work on it so I dunno what went wrong - maybe it couldn't handle towing 3500Kg TB-class trailers carting BIG boats with a lot of wind resistance (it's possibly the case - the big 3500Kg trailers are one thing but a BIG boat is like towing a parachute and not all utes can hack that). We pretty much went to Rangers with the 3.2L 5-cyl engines after that as they were the best combo of power vs purchase cost vs running cost, tried a couple of other options with the big trailers but they just didn't handle the gear. Didn't go for the Mazda version just with the stupid smiley face they slapped on them. Cheaper than the Ranger but goodness me, who designed that hideous thing!
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