Mr Jaco and the Fourie family is the owners of a 2015 Hilux 3.0 D4D 4X4 Dakar delivered to them by Dewald Vermaak at Mossel Bay Toyota Automark. The Hilux has gained a reputation for exceptional sturdiness and reliability during sustained heavy use or even abuse. This reputation was highlighted in several episodes of the BBC motoring show Top Gear. In series 3, episodes 5 and 6, a 1988 diesel N50 Hilux with 305,775 km (190,000 mi) on the odometer was subjected to extraordinary abuse suffering severe structural damage, but still running after being repaired with only the typical tools that would be found in a truck’s toolbox.] This Hilux became one of the background decorations in the Top Gear studio. In the later series 8, episode 3, a Hilux was chosen by Jeremy Clarkson as his platform for creating an amphibious vehicle, and in the Top Gear: Polar Special Clarkson and James May raced a specially modified 2007 model Hilux to the magnetic north pole from Northern Canada – making the truck the first motor vehicle to make it to the magnetic north pole. The camera crew’s vehicle from this episode was later driven to near the summit of an erupting Icelandic volcano by James May in Series 15, Episode 1. A world record was achieved by the support crew for the participants in the 2008/2009 Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race. The crew travelled in specially adapted Toyota Hilux’s modified by Arctic Trucks, completing a trip of over 5,000 km (3,100 mi) from Novo, a Russian Scientific Station in Antarctica to the Geographic South Pole and back again, making them the first 4×4s to reach the South Pole.The return journey of 2,500 km (1,600 mi) from the South Pole to Novo Station was completed in a record 8 days and 17 hours. #mbtoyota #mosselbaytoyota #Automark #DewaldVermaak #Hilux
