GTP Cool Wall: '84-'89 Toyota 4Runner. Voting Closed

Joey D · Oct 12, 2009

.: 19841989 Toyota 4Runner (a.k.a. Hilux Surf) suggested by Irons :.

Specs:
There are a bunch of different configurations and what not, so it's just easier to link you to the site Irons provided.
http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/faq/parts/

Joey D · Oct 12, 2009

Cool. It's based off the Toyota Hilux pickup truck, which Top Gear proved you could beat to hell and still have it run. It also has a decent following of off-road enthusiast that do not present themselves as major tools. There is also just something I really like about off-roading Toyota's. Granted none of this is enough to put it into the sub-zero category but it's easily enough to make it go cool.

homeforsummer · Oct 12, 2009

Cool. What the hell. As Joey said, tough as old boots, go on forever, not as pretentious as a "lifestyle" SUV. Basically exists to get the job done, whatever that job may be. I actually prefer the post-1990 ones, and I'd have mine with the 3.0 turbodiesel mated to an auto box that was available in the UK for as stressless a drive as possible.

Joey D
There is also just something I really like about off-roading Toyota's

I share this sentiment. I quite like pretty much all of Toyota's off-roaders from the RAV4 right up to the Land Cruiser V8.

Murcie_LP640 · Oct 12, 2009

Although I can't actually vote on the poll, Uncool. I prefer the equally-indestructible and more capable Nissan Patrol/Ford Maverick, and yes, as Top Gear ALSO proved, you CAN kill a Hilux by making it into an amphibious vehicle and accidentally overturning it by turning too sharply to park at the pontoon.

Pupik · Oct 12, 2009

Murcie_LP640
...Top Gear ALSO proved, you CAN kill a Hilux by making it into an amphibious vehicle and accidentally overturning it by turning too sharply to park at the pontoon.

Pfft...you can kill any car with a Saws-All and/or a 16-year-old driver.

TheCracker · Oct 12, 2009

I'm aware of it's rock solidness, but at the end of the day it's just a utility. Every other one you'll see will have a company name on the side. It's a Transit van for service industry workers who encounter muddy fields every so often. A Top Gear endorsement certainly doesn't make it any cooler. Uncool.

Irons · Oct 12, 2009

we own one in my family... bought it new in Sept 1987...an 88 Model...2200 RE motor
right now it is just short ( by 3500 miles) of having a half a million miles on it... ( 500,000)

has had to have minimal repairs over the last 22 years...

its not baby'ed and isn't abuses.. gets routine maintenance... Mobil ONE oil uses in the motor.. changed every 20,000 miles...filter every 5000...

buickgnx88 · Oct 12, 2009

Cool, but only the '84-'86 models since they came with a solid front axle.

Giancarlo · Oct 12, 2009

Cool because it does what it's supposed to really well.

Stotty · Oct 12, 2009

Meh, only one cool off roader... a Land Rover. All other are seriously un-cool.

Leonidae · Oct 12, 2009

original Willy's Jeep laughs at the obese, luxurious British imitation called Land Rover.

homeforsummer · Oct 12, 2009

Leonidae
original Willy's Jeep laughs at the obese, luxurious British imitation called Land Rover.

I take it you've never been in an S1 Landie then

red70mach1 · Oct 12, 2009

My friend has an 89 with the V6. Unfortunately it got stolen and the catalytic converter got ripped out when he got it back.

Ardius · Oct 12, 2009

Stotty
Meh, only one cool off roader... a Land Rover. All other are seriously un-cool.

Farmers? cool?

Off roaders are meh for me. Kind of like hiking boots. They're to be worn and used.

Seriously uncool from me too.

Thatman · Oct 12, 2009

my brother in law gots one and although it smells like urine it was fun to drive AND its still running=cool

Jim Prower · Oct 12, 2009

I'm thinking pretty Cool. It would my second choice over a HiLux pickup for Joyriding on Dave's Farm. You just can't kill 'em.

Eric Demory · Oct 12, 2009

this car right here would make a great hillbilly vehicle. YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW GET ALONG LITTLE DOGIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joey D · Oct 12, 2009

Except it's a Toyota and there is a redneck in the country that would have a Japanese vehicle grace their presence.

ROAD_DOGG33J · Oct 12, 2009

In the off-roading world it might be cool. But it looks like any old SUV, so it's uncool.

Seriously how can this be cool?

Jim Prower · Oct 13, 2009

Joey D
Except it's a Toyota and there is a redneck in the country that would have a Japanese vehicle grace their presence.

Canada's different. Dave has a Corolla GT-S on the farm. ;3

homeforsummer · Oct 13, 2009

ROAD_DOGG33J
Seriously how can this be cool?

Basic, do anything, go anywhere, unpretentious transport. Cool because it isn't so much as not trying too hard, as not trying at all. In my eyes, it is to off-roaders as the Mazda MX-5 is to sports cars.

ericdemoryGT
this car right here would make a great hillbilly vehicle. YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW GET ALONG LITTLE DOGIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You forgot to give us a percentage

Eric Demory · Oct 13, 2009

sorry. cool, 70%

Nicksfix · Oct 13, 2009

Cool

I have seen these things with antwhere from 2-4 hundred thousand miles on them,still running like a champ,the body is half-way cancered off due to the lovely N.E. Ohio winters we get,but they are out there plowing snow and running with all the other 4x4's out there.Tuff durable little truck.

Irons · Oct 13, 2009

Irons
we own one in my family... bought it new in Sept 1987...an 88 Model...2200 RE motor
right now it is just short ( by 3500 miles) of having a half a million miles on it... ( 500,000)

has had to have minimal repairs over the last 22 years...

its not baby'ed and isn't abuses.. gets routine maintenance... Mobil ONE oil uses in the motor.. changed every 20,000 miles...filter every 5000...

Apparently my old man got onto my account while I was at school but what he's typed is right. He uses it as any sensible person does, he doesn't beat it to hell and back and he doesn't baby it either. He performs routine maintenance on it and it's still kickin'.

Anyway, looking at it from an average Joe's opinion, this is a nice-runaround truck. When someone pulls up in a gigantic Dodge Ram or Ford F-450 with 6 tires instead of the usual 4 covered by those "Marilyn Munroe hips", and it's not being used for hauling stuff or farm work, it gives off the impression that the driver of the truck is compensating for something. This truck is nowhere near as big but it's a truck that can get the job, whatever that job may be, done. Virtually indestructible, if you take care of this truck, this truck will take care of you. (That's what my opinion was even before I saw that Top Gear episode) It's also a good personal truck as there is only two seats as opposed to the later models with more than two seats.

One job this truck doesn't do is carry the prestine or elegance of a car of Sub-Zero magnitude...

But it's a truck. Trucks aren't supposed to be "prestine" or "elegant".

COOL

Rykon Zero · Oct 13, 2009

Cool. I can imagine running one of these through a desert. That alone is absolutely cool, the same with my uncle's jeep. Simply cool. Unless it's not.

SRV2LOW4ME · Oct 13, 2009

A friend at work has one of these, its rusted apart so bad that the back tail gate has fallen off and he has styrofoam in its place and yet the thing keeps running, even the 4 wheel drive works. He said he'll get rid of it when it dies, but even after driving it through the river a couple of times this summer fishing, its still running strong. Thats a cool truck. 👍

Duke · Oct 13, 2009

I voted seriously uncool.

1) They are completely biodegradable. On quiet nights you can hear the iron atoms escaping back to their natural habitat. Nothing that is supposed to be that tough should degenerate that fast. Nobody but the Japanese would put an engine that will go 300,000 miles in a body that is full of holes by 30,000.

2) They are just never going to be as subzero cool as a real FJ that is 10 years older. Paradoxically, the FJ also defrosted from subzero up to almost uncool at about the same time the 4runner came out.

3) All the disadvantages of a truck with not much of the cargo capacity... just like most SUVs.

YSSMAN · Oct 13, 2009

"Meh" Uncool

I'm not a SUV fan, despite the justifiably awesome capabilities of the vehicle. That, and its not particularly good-looking, even for an '80s SUV.

ROAD_DOGG33J · Oct 13, 2009

homeforsummer
Basic, do anything, go anywhere, unpretentious transport. Cool because it isn't so much as not trying too hard, as not trying at all. In my eyes, it is to off-roaders as the Mazda MX-5 is to sports cars.

Meh

I think this truck can be summarized in one word: boring

niky · Oct 13, 2009

Cool.

Not uncool because:
1.a It's not an SUV. It's a pickup with extra (uncomfortable) seats.
1.b Alternatively, it's a pickup without the extra seats, and makes no pretentions as a family vehicle.
2. It'll go anywhere.
3. It'll survive fire, flood and Clarkson. Normally, Clarkson's vote will make any car uncool for me, but it survives even that.

Not subzero because:
1. Osama likes it.
2. It's not a Landcruiser.

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