1989 Toyota Pickup SR5 4X4 5MT: Regular Car Reviews 

It probably will considering the ending of Alyx.

That’s an interesting theory/truth.

Remember the politicians have people that they need to buy off. That won’t matter if it’s the current crop of politicians or the next crop.

Carmagedon 5 will come out before that is repealed

You just added one more month to the release date.

I have a '97 nissan version. 5 speed and it is s l o w. I'm at 3k rpm at 60.

Speed limit in 89 was 65.

@@aaronperdue8979 On November 28, 1995, Congress passed the National Highway Designation Act, which officially removed all federal speed limit controls. it was 55 mph until then on most highways.

​@@aaronperdue8979not in many places...

Crew cabs sre heavy. My dad has a 1999 and Is slow AF. On the other half, my uncle had a 1993 model, also Diesel but extended cab. I dont know wth that truck had, it had the stock 3l and that thing was fast, it wasn't slow like other Hilux of the Time

Sick As. You had a glorious upbringing. Cherish the memory

Sounds like amazing memories.

Fucking awesome.

Old man got given a 2wd crew cab diesel few years back as his work truck that had been converted to LPG, don't ask me how or why but it had spark plugs in the diesel block where the injectors should be, it idled like chitty chitty bang bang and was highly amusing to drive.

Did you hit a million?

How did you get those high mileage so fast?...My Uncle's 93' 4runner currently around 450k miles.

Holy high miles Batman!! You must drive 1000 miles a week! You need to post a pic of the ODO, would love to see it! Any engine/tranny work done?

@@AndrewR10001 92 short bed, a/c, 5 spd, rwd. I added an am/fm/cd, ebay power window kit, bedliner, led headlights. 600,000 miles and on 3rd electronic cluster, replaced the timing chain one time, 2 a/c compressor activation switches and 2 fan speed switched, the A/C condenser and receiver dryer, the clutch once and 2 used AFM's. Also, moved that mf fuel filter up to the passenger side fender (if you have a 2WD and no lift it is virtually impossible to remove that filter at ground level....even if you pull the starter! Note: ALL of the YT videos showing fuel filter replacement are showing either a 4WD or RAISED vehicle lifted at least 2 ft. off the ground....and thus the angle of approach and space available to reach the filter are vastly different). NO RUST in, out or under this Florida marvel. I rely on this truck as my one and only daily driver and I treat it accordingly. I have personally performed every bit of maintenance and a/c repair work except the clutch....It has never totally stranded me. It pays me back by starting and running very well to this day and it is BY FAR the best vehicle purchase I ever made. (I could head cross-country this very minute without as much as checking the oil. I want them to bury me in it lol).

​@AndrewR10001, my 95 only has 191k

you said it

I tried to explain to my kids: what 40 year old movie featured a new car that is still as cool and desirable today as it was then?

True

@@2Skinny Ferris Bueller's Day Off And maybe Moonraker too

@@citrusjuicebox neither of those cars were new at the time of those movies though

back in the 80s/90s it was pretty common for japanese manufacturers calling their small trucks "pickup", Toyota had a Pickup, Nissan small trucks before naming it Frontier were called Pickup, there was an Isuzu Pickup too, same with Mazda, i think the only one with a name was Mitsubishi with its L200.

@@blaxus20 Toyota didn't need to get creative with naming their truck back then because they only had one until they released the T100.

Nissan called theirs a D21 ‘Hardbody’, and Mazda had their B2200. There was the Chevy S10, and Datsun had the 620, I think it was. And even still, Toyota also called the same truck a Hilux in some places… in Canada the ‘89 was and still is the ‘Pickup’

lol, saw that

Would you believe I forget every time I open the hood? 🤷‍♂️

@@RawSauce338 What's a hood?

@@alexanderrosales7675 a place where they'll take your rims and radio

ive went 6 months without opening the hood on my 20 year old toyota and all the fluid levels were still good.

As a bass player drummers are the coolest

Rhythm section love connection

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@@WhitefolksT 502🤘

@@yep-that-happened 606 👉🏻👌🏻

That’s my wet dream. Owning a modern day Hilux with its original size, but with better tech and manual trans. I went out and bought a ‘01 Tacoma with a single cab, manual because I absolutely adored the compact size and attractive body style. I wouldn’t be caught dead driving a modern day “compact” truck.

They do make a single cab style side hilux still....and a extended cab and a dual cab 😀

Ford has more orders for the Maverick than they know what to do with. It doesn't hurt that the Ranger is practically the size and price of an F-150. If Toyota wanted to cash in on that market with a reasonably priced, reasonably sized, high quality, possibly hybrid, true compact truck, they could rake in money like Ford is doing.

Part of the size is the safety standards. That’s why new Honda Civic weighs 3300 pounds.

Could probably make it on a RAV 4 chassis (though they'd probably be better off with a Corolla as the Rav 4 might be too big, damn modern vehicle sizes).

bUt I uSe My DoDgE rAm FoR wOrK

@@jimrustle270 I drive a 2500 and I can confirm this 🤣

My grandpa is a 70 year old who uses a 2004 Dodge Caravan with black bumpers and rudders for work

I thought it was nice looking truck, but compared to a time machine, c'mon.

Fk yeah that Marty McFly 🛻 🔥

Agreed, aside from the added time machine fluff, that Delorean was garbage

I agree "Check out that 4 by 4!"

I find them equally cool.

It’s weird because the T100 was _huge_ when it first came out. Now they hardly look different.

Man I hope someday they do a T100 and they don't just write it off as a wannabe Tundra or a longer Hilux, My first truck was a 2WD T100, and it was just like a car with a long bed, The 94 Ram might have brought in the modern pickup truck looks but the T100 did the same for the driving experience

​@@calvinnickel9995it's ridiculous that the new Tacoma just dwarfs those old t100

Oh I remember that serpent of a timing chain chewing sound , worst on startup

Better yet, but a 3VZE truck then swap in a 3.4L 5VZ.

@@gohilux the 3.4 Tacoma is just a better truck. Let it keep its engine

@@lukelowe918 it's kind of funny that Toyota was able to take arguably one of their worst engines, the 3VZ, and turn it into one of their most reliable with the 5VZ. The 3.4L/5VZ swap is super common into these trucks. Mostly sourced from a 3.4L 4Runner. As the 3VZ and the 5VZ have such similar (almost identical) blocks, were used with the same (R150F) transmission, and were used in the same vehicles, you can drop a 5VZ 3.4L motor directly into a 3VZ truck with minimal modification. It'll bolt right up to the 3VZ spec'd transmission when using a 5VZ clutch and flywheel, and you only need a wiring harness adapter and relocation of a couple accessories in the engine. Once the 3VZ blows up in mine that'll be next on the list.

Ahhh. ol’ recall 50N. Still on the books

Wow i havent seen a ranger splash in new england since 2013

I suppose you want a clean 1989 240SX or 2000 Civic SiR too? Maybe a bone-stock 1988 Mustang GT or 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme? Unicorns.

@@calvinnickel9995 I also would’ve accepted “1992 Lincoln Mark 7 without numerous electrical issues”

@@calvinnickel9995 Suzuki Samurai please. And more diesels, inline 6, manual, and cable throttle cars.

I granpa had a 90s super bright orange with purple graphics Splash extended cab with the 4.0. That truck was awesome and hauled ass

There was a bit of an overlap too, sometime in '71 or '72 they started referring to it as just "Toyota Pickup" in ads, brochures and the like but they came through with Hilux fender badges up thru '74.

I owned a 79 hilux. Believe that's the year they switched to pickup

I think I recall seeing a few of those.

@@nlpnt yup! My first was a 74 and had Hilux badging on the fenders. Now own a 77 which just states Toyota, no Hilux branding anywhere. I have the sales brochure as well and it’s just “Toyota Half Ton Truck” there

Huh. My first car was a '78... I always just called it a Hilux, even though it didn't have the badge. That thing was a tough little bugger; I absolutely loved that truck. My little yellow rocketship! :3

What happened to it?

same... mine was nearing 200k when it was given to me ... i had paint work and a radiator change done on it... the shop forgot to fill the radiator back up... blew it up... i surf used ads to this day but cant stomach the 17-20k price tag for a sorted one.

You must have the only Pooper still alive!

I see a mint t100. They want 20K for it. SMH

My dad bought a 92 Toyota not long ago. And this truck, the Chevy pickup of the 90s and brick nose to early 90s ford pickups are my childhood so yeah definitely a core memory

send pic ! i’ve got a ‘90

I have a (mostly) '94 pickup. I can't put my finger on it, but it puts a smile on my face every time I see her in my driveway

I wish we could still make great small trucks like this. Why does every truck today have to be huge

Yes got the truck outside 148k and I’m 29 older than me!

That’s not the impressive part lol, lots of shit lasts that long, what’s impressive about the Toyotas of this era, is that they were built as disposables, were treated like disposables, and most of them still start after 2 pulls of the starter.

Just remembered. the 1992 Standard Cab 4x4 we had purchased new after the '88 was involved in a rear end accident! The wife got rear ended in the '92 by Columbia Center Blv. Some driver tried driving under the 4x4 failing miserably, burying their car to the Toy's rear axle. Car that hit our Toy was totaled! Our Toy truck needed a new bumper because of a small thumb print size impression of a dent in it. Toyota Trucks were built Bad AF back in those day's. Check the oil and put gas it is all I ever did to mine, '88 had a small radiator leak and replaced it with new. You couldn't GIVE me a new modern Toy.

2nd gen Tacoma 4.0 v6 is a solid option, almost timeless like the 80’s & 90’s pickups. Pre facelift without “tech” features is even better.

If the Chicken Tax is repealed, not a lot would change, maybe we'll see more Thai built Rangers and Colorados, but all the mid sized pickups we can buy in the USA are designed for the USA. Unless Mitsubishi brings their L200/Triton, that would be the biggest change.

@@LouisSubearth You don't think mini trucks would be popular with places like NYC or on farms?

@@jmd1743 “small” trucks like the current gen Hilux are huge nowadays. Its no different size wise to USDM Rangers and Colorados, so if Rangers aren’t popular in New York then I don’t see how Hiluxes or Tritons would be

@@jmd1743 I know they would, however I also know that safety regulations would make it a very expensive task to do, repealing the chicken tax doesn't mean that mini trucks like the Hijet would be exempt from basic safety testing.

@@LouisSubearth And funny thing is the Triton is the best of them. The only one that can run full-time 4WD.

No way in hell i would attempt to pull 4 tons with the 22re motor..my friend had a 93 2wd and it squatted so bad with just 850lbs in the bed..my 99 mazda would haul 1500+ and stand back up and cruise down the highway with ease.. i can't imagine trying to tow 8000lbs behind it ever..

@@jdubskiwright2380 maybe those are ratings for the Diesel engine. But they're still ridiculous numbers. They actually still are. An uncle has a 2016 Nissan NP300 with the 2.5 gas engine, Crew Cab and short bed which is rated to haul up to 2300 lbs and tow up to 3500 lbs. I own a 4th gen Ram 1500 that maxes out at 1900 lbs hauling although I once put 2200 lbs and I would never do the same because the truck started feeling unsettled. Can't imagine how one of those tiny trucks would feel if hauling the same.

@@luisinhoens90 im from norway owning a 98 hilux diesel its rated at 2250 kilos 4960 lbs towing capasity + 710 kilo 1565 lbs load on the truck itself :)

Yep. They can carry about a dozen equipped troops or one 20mm anti aircraft gun.

@@calvinnickel9995 true

Wow the auto market sure has changed if they were selling those for invoice just to get more sedans on the lot!

Interesting, for my dad to get his 1989 pickup he had to be put on a list and he got a phone call about the next available one that was coming into the country via ship. They called him about 6 weeks out and said it was on its way over from Japan and it was delivered to the dealer in his name directly. It was straight MSRP, no deals. In California at least, the 4Runner and pickup were both incredibly popular and hard to get in 1989.

Oh, so the polar opposite of the Ford dealer in the Detroit area that had the one Ranger on the lot that was in the newspaper ad that was NEVER to be sold to ANYONE! By law, you must have the car in the ad on the lot, so that was the one, and ALL salespeople were supposed to bait-and-switch the customers, and if ANYONE sold that truck, they were fired!

🤣

Meijer is a dutch name, "ij" is the 25th letter of the alphabet there, replacing what they call the "greek ij" which we know is Y. Beyond that, there's no special pronunciation rule, so the store is just called Meyer.

Huh. In my country we have a department store chain called Myer. Wonder if there's any relation.

the 4 cylinder was more reliable, but the good thing about owning the V6 is that if the 3.0 ever blows you can do a 3.4 swap relatively easy which was toyota's best engine ever made. A perfect update to the 3.0 that had the reliability of the 4 cylinder with twice the power. Even with the slow 3.0 in it, the frame and build quality of these trucks was amazing. So utilitarian and awesome.

He could have sold it more than he bought it today.

@@irwinisidro oh for sure, he used it properly though offroading it all the time and eventually it rusted away, last I saw if it it was sold on FB for like 500$ because it had no title. Sad really, if I could have put it back on the road I would have bought it in a heartbeat

@@jvogler_art4708the 3.0 is great, so long as you don’t plan on pushing a bunch of tire with one, and it’ll do 65 and not be at the end of the world lol.

Keep it clean and rust free. Please. So rare

A lot of people tended to put oversize tires and lift kits on them. I had an irresponsible friend back in the 1980's that did that, then ended up rolling 2 of them when he swerved. Local cops were also targeting him over his way over legal bumper height. He never learned his lesson, the last time I saw him he was driving an old rust bucket Toyota with 42 inch tires and at least an 8 inch lift kit. Stupid is as stupid does.

@@n3bruce yeah 35s are about the right limit for these. Maybe 37s. Mine has a 2 inch lift with flipped leaf spring mounts and 35s with a 5.29 diff gears with the high steer modification. and yeah it leans but just dont be an idiot and you wont flip. It helps mine has a wider tire track due to using 92 4runner spindles tho. Its about 3 or 4 inches wider on the front axle than the rear is which helps a lot.

Cressida 😍

What an amazing combo, a cressida and a pickup

I have one of each..... plus a aw11 mr2. Problem is none of them are drivable at the moment....

I got a 86 mx73 and 89 2wd pickup

The only real problem the diesel ever had was a bit of coking if they didn't get a good beating once in a while, well that and they're slower than the petrol. Where these things truly shine though is offroad, the gearing, suspension and reliability sold 1000's of these to farmers all over Australia as it would idle along in 4wd just fast enough to keep up with slow sheep and cattle, held a motorbike in the back or a big stack of hay bales. Or if you're more sporty, they took you to insane places 'big' 4wds wouldn't get to on washed out fire trails and still carried enough camping gear to disappear off the face of the earth. Sort of a magical era, it was just well built enough to be reliable, not overbuilt to be expensive and simple enough a moron with half a toolbox and 8th grade education could fix it

Hell yes. I need a Fiat Panda 4x4

@@yeeterskeeter6565 You sir, are a man of refined taste

Genius.

I mean isn't that already a thing anyway? I've seen lots of US companies importing clean JDM trucks/4x4's. Although the prices are eyewatering seeing as here we had the lions choice of all of most of these almost 20 years ago. Like even 10 years ago a mint Hilux surf would be worth like 2 grand here. Which unfortunately because of that most of them got run into the ground just because they were so cheap.

@@yeeterskeeter6565 that's Italy's Hilux in a way. A sluggish, raw but nearly indestructible workhorse that can go almost anywhere and has achieved somewhat of a mythical status here. In fact a well kept first-gen Panda 4x4 can go for more than € 10k.

Only if they sell it before it eventually gets retired. I would have taken the 20k.

Same with dashboard covers.

The 22R and RE will rev. To. The. Moon.

love my 88 2wd, lowered 7inchs coil overs in front. celica trans swap. handles like a go cart and pulls in all gears

I don't think we agree on what "quick" means. My 99 CBR900 was pretty quick.

@@calholli weird flex but ok

A stock 4wd truck is around 600-700 lbs heavier than its RWD counterparts, also it had a lot more aero and tire drag

And the single ding, on the tailgate, was from my brother hitting it with a golf ball when he was a teen. Still cracks me up every time I notice it. My dad must have been so pissed.

I have a 92 4runner 22re I bought in Oregon and drove back to Wisconsin! Rust free gang!

@@j_mars_cars Winter's comming...... Rust never sleeps. I feel your pain here in Iowa.

@@seththomas9105 I’m now 98% rust free. I need an afternoon with a pressure washer, wire wheel, and cosmoline black/fluid film black to seal off my frame from the evil advances of salt. Although, it will be parked most of winter

@@j_mars_cars You're from Wisconsin so you know that parking it Nov. 1 to Apr. 1 is the only way to keep rust at bay. The bane of all vehicles in the Midwest is that fucking DOT salt brine.

@@seththomas9105 I do also take the whistlin diesel mindset. I want to use my vehicle, not let it own me. It’s not rare in and of itself, just geographically. If I spared it from rust, but some drunk driver t boned me one day, all my saving it would be worth nothing. I want to use it up, but as slowly as possible, over 20-25 years. I want to eventually have it look like a battle worn unit capable of conquering any obstacle.

It’s not the same, those are Solid Axle trucks, those are the real deal 4 wheelers. SAS Toyotas we’re for the most part jacked up into trail rigs, because they will absolutely embarrass a Jeep with a shitload of money spent on it.

We still sell 80s landcruiser pickups here too as new models in the UAE.

These trucks rule the world

@RegularCars【 𝟒𝟒𝟑 】𝟓𝟖𝟒-𝟔𝟒𝟎𝟏 You mom is listed on the new inventory

Eh it was a rust bucket. We could build one like this but better.

I gotta nissan version

Did you forget to lock the hubs?

@@buillioncubes I was a kid but I do remember the incline was pretty damn steep. At that point a lot of vehicles probably would have had trouble climbing it haha.

@@GeminiWoods You can be satisfied knowing you probably made it way further than anyone else would have, lol.

That’s actually cheap. Good ones go for over 20k here in Florida

I miss my cressidas. Owned 4 of them and still have one that I got in an accident with sitting at my mom's waiting for me to restore...

Ha! It was my Dad’s until October or so. But trust me, thirty years from now I’ll still be looking for the hood release. 🤣

If Regular gets to Australia he can review my 2wd D-Max and 4wd MU-X, both with the legendary 4JJ1 engine.

@@plokiju369 I’m specifically talking about the 80’s/90’s Isuzu’s. I don’t have any experience with modern ones (after they pulled out of the U.S.A.).

Test drove a 4WD, mild factory lifted, Isuzu P'up in 1988. Sales guy sent me and my brother off and said "Have fun !" We had a good time , but am glad I didn't buy it . It would have been too dangerous during my three year deployment to West Germany where the country roads are high crowned and have frequent curves . Young Americans in pickup and SUV rollovers in 1980s West Germany were all too common.

Yep, know the feeling. I recently purchased a Jeep Comanche Eliminator, everywhere I get comments and occasionally offers.