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They’ve already built one. The 1GD is already doing that kind of mileage. And it doesn’t need a load more torque to do the job. If you keep an eye on the Aussie car sales like I do - particularly the...

I knew someone would bite on that one.

But its an interesting point, no matter who said it. Right now, outside of the guys that are actually doing proper side-by-side comparisons, most folk are...

From the launch media in December:

Hanley (Toyota Australia Vice President of Sales and Marketing) says initially Toyota Australia is expecting a 70/30 per cent split in favour of the V8 but he...

The way I see it No.3 is that your producing this sample size of one horror story to advocate for bigger engines, whereas I’m looking at the info and asking myself who the hell drives over 100,000 km...

Hardly surprising BRADS, the 200 series has almost 50% more torque than your Hilux and the Prado you had. Completely different beast to them and the single turbo V8. And you can’t chuck twenty dead...

There are thousands upon thousands of very hard working 1GDs out there that make your one lonely example look very much something else happened than just “couldn’t tow”!

Technology moves...

All brands have a very small percentage of mechanical failures, that become inflated stories on the internet, especially on forums. We can never see what really happened, we only hear what "my mate"...

Tested in the video below… there are several of these tests out there already (e.g. Ronnie Dahl) and they are all concluding the same, which is that the 4-cyl auto is not struggling at all compared...

Not necessarily. 13-14L/100km is about par for the I4 1GD-FTV towing something like a decent sized boat or camper trailer. There's heaps of tests on YT with that engine in Hilux and Prado, lots of...

There are already huge numbers of very high mileage 1GD-FTVs around the world in all sorts of commercial applications. It’s already 10 years old. The engine is used in Hiace, Hino & Dyna trucks,...