American Reacts to Amazing Australian Trucks You CAN'T Buy in the USA 

In Aus we don't have "brush guards", we have Bull bars!😎. Perfect for safety against 'roos & wombats (both of which could be the equivalent to hitting a stone wall, especially when they suddenly appear in your path at night!)

I'm from Italy and lived in Australia for a year. Worked there in the outback as a lumberjack, and driving everyday a completely destroyed land cruiser from the 80's towing massive trailer. More than 800.000 km (almost 500.000 miles) and absolutely no problem whatsoever. Those things are indestructible beast

Jeeps are extremely unreliable in Australia and especially their diesel engines, plus the poor customer service relating to their warranty claims is what put a lot of people off their vehicles. Multiple occasions the ACCC got involved due to their violations.

I served in the Australian Army in the Royal Australian Corps of Transport in the 1980's one of the interesting thing I found when the US military came and did an Exercise was their vehicle air filters that they used where totally useless due to the bull dust it would go through the air filter and into the engine. Bull dust is finer than talcum powder.

my favourite truck from the US is the canyonaro , i love how it rolls over and catches fire every time you go around a corner .

Would be interesting to see your reaction Ian to the cars in the Australian ute muster they definitely would be something that you haven't seen before and see what a real bull bar looks like on a car based ute.

When Holden and Ford pulled out of Australia and moved production to Asia I think the design teams stayed. The Holden/Chevy Colorado and Ford Ranger were both designed in Australia then manufactured in Asia for Australia and other country's, years before the USA got them.

Is a tow bar "tow hitch" not common on every car in America? I reckon 60 percent of all cars on the road in Australia have them. I have a Honda Civic and a Hyundai Terracan both with them, every car my wife and I have owned has had them lol

One of my former housemates goes offroading every year and is usually gone for 4-5months he heads up the centre off roading from the Stuart hwy he hates main roads he usually heads to Tenant Creek and Darwin and camps off the grid the last I saw of him he was driving a pajero stacked with snorkel tow cables a chain wrench on the front mosquito roo bar if you ever bump into a nice bloke named Barry who brews his own black coffee every morning hes got some great stories

Australia classifies these sort of vehicles, "commercial" and they have lots of tax benefits (over a four-year write period). You can claim depreciation, or lease payments, upkeep, fuel on tax, etc.,. After four years you trade it in on another and go with the rebooted tax benefits. If you're on the land (a farmer) you get tax benefits on deisel fuel - so it makes sense to run your vehicles on deisel and charge it to your business. Toyotas are probably the most popular because they're relibale and when you're miles from anywhere and need parts nearly every mechanic keeps Toyota parts, or knows someone nearby who keeps them.

Love the Landcruiser ute. The one I got to drive had a tray that tilted as it was used to deliver gravel. Remember one time driving it delivering brickie's sand to a worksite and as the sand was wet, I had to get up the top to dislodge some sand that wouldn't come out. Just as well I had a shovel as a plover was going to swoop me at head height! Bastard things they are!

G'day Ian, have you seen 4wd 24-7 ? I think you will enjoy this channel. They take on the toughest tracks all over Australia and get themselves into some off the toughest situations you can get 4wding. Please have a look....You will thank me for it guaranteed.

If you are interested. Have a look at the "OKA" only Australian built 4x4

My dad started out 4x4 with a Suzuki Sierra which he put a 5k 5 speed engine and gearbox in it took some modding to fit correctly and wasn’t totally legal but she was a beast. From there it was Nissan Navara and Nissan Patrol all of which he and my mother did thousands of kilometres around Australia in. Unfortunately due to his declining health he’s no longer able to drive. But he got his adventure before dementia.

the 4.5L turbo-diesel V8 sound amazing

A great thing about the single cab with utility tray is that the tray can fit full 8x4 sheets of ply or mdf. a lot of new designs have sacrificed function for form.

The popularity of the "crew-cab" 4 door ute can be traced to its qualification as a work vehicle. That attracts a much lower (purchase) tax rate, so a Tradie could get a work vehicle AND a family car at a cut price, and vehicle expenses "might" have found their way onto the books of the business, instead of being split between the business and private use. Oh yes! Those "brush bars" are not for brush, they are for kangaroos, and are therefore Roo Bars, and a good one wraps around the full width of the vehicle.

The Mitsubishi is a triton! Tray back Utes are more for the farmers tradies. We do have a decent amount of Jeeps. The landies or land cruisers are very expensive. Farmers usually have those. The other ones are range rovers, and rams are getting more popular with the horse community

Never owned a newer Cruizer, but had a HJ47 as my main Roo Shooting work truck for about 15 yrs. H1 Non turbo diesel 6. Beasty was a friken tractor with taller gears. She wasnt fast, but reliability was never an issue. Never bogged, ( but did drag my bro's rodeo and patrol out a bunch of times lol )Tanked her way through scrub and gullys around farms and station country to harvest Roos and cull foxes /cats etc.. First thing i did was ripped out those bastard seats with the top bar across the middle of your backbone, and put in a pair of commodore buckets. Ahhhh, my spine thanked me forever after. Cruizer will always be an Aussie offroad favorite.

As a volunteer firefighter, I've been using Landcruisers off road fighting fire in what we call Ultralights or quick attacks, and there's nowhere we've not gone with 500lt of water, gear, pump, two guys in groups of five or more cruisers, knocking down spot fires in the bush. We also now are using Nissan Patrol utes in the role as well, as crusiers are getting a tad expensive these days, even for Government services.

Love this video. It does show how popular utes are in Aus. I have one myself, in the form of a Holden Rodeo RA, which is heavily modded for 4x4 use. I love the thing, and I'd never get rid of it while she lives still! But if I could get my hands of the 79 series I think she'd see a lot less KMs hahah The only thing I see which is displeasing about the car treands in Australia is a adoption of US 'trucks' such as Chevvy, RAM, Ford F### and even the Ford Ranger Raptor. I get people like them, and they may be powerful for towing etc, but unfortunatly they are just too big for our road and car infrastructure... Not to mention they can be woeful offroad haha. Also as a personal opionion, I think they actually dont look good. Perhaps mostly the front end? I feel the bumper is very low hanging on the factory cars. Much perfer the look of older utes avaliable that are older than ~2015 models.

When I first got my 4x4, a snorkel is the first mod I added. with the amount of off-roading I did in the mud (tassie), it more than paid for itself the first outing. probably would have killed the engine on the first outing if I did not have it. You don't need a 4x4 for dirt roads. you see a lot of ford and holden utes with bullbars on them for roo's for more country driving. Used to go camping in my old front wheel drive camry wagon, the only time i ever had an issue was on a washed out gravel track. but that was soon sorted with a back up and approaching it from another angle.

On the guard on the front of a vehicle, we tend to call them a 'roo bar', because they are mostly there to project you when you hit kangaroos. Unlike what the presenter was saying, this happens most often on sealed asphalt highways between towns and cities, and not out on gravel or dirt roads. Also, there aren't as many gravel and dirt roads as this bloke seems to think. I grew up in the middle of the desert in Western Australia, and the roads were largely still sealed.

In Australia, SUV's are the AWDs (Santa Fe etc) and the Cruisers, Hiluxs, Navaras, Patrols etc are 4WD. Tint little bars that just protect the grill are call nudge bars and brush bars are the bars that protect our guards running from the bull bar to the side steps.

Hey Ian, Toyota Landcruiser trayback utilities are the most popular 'ute' in Australia as you mentioned because of their tough build. And soon to become far more valuable, in the vein of our Falcon XYGTHO which is worth a cool $mil++ now. These utes have a solid chassis now referred to as a 'railtrack chassis' I think is the term. We tow pretty big caravans and trailers and the laws on towing are slowly being surreptitiously changed so that to tow over a certain weight will require the big solid chassis and big engine. Mine is a 1988 HJ75 GXL ute with aluminium tray, with a Landcruiser Sahara wagon 1HT turbo diesel engine (so a tradies ute, if a lady can have one that is!). Naturally, it has a factory fitted (proper) bull bar. Always replaced old, broken or worn parts with new genuine. It has had 2 complete rebuilds in its time in my care, so has zero rust or dings and in perfect condition throughout. Drives straight and true. I have been already offered $44k which is a significant markup on the new purchase price! 😁😁 It's a Veteran model car now so she has an easy life now.😇 Not much 4x4 and no beach anymore. 😂 That's me laughing all the way to the bank! But honestly folks it's not for sale, because, what would I buy to replace it with if I did sell it? 🤷‍♀️ I will retire very soon and I plan to buy myself a 30ft gooseneck fully enclosed aluminium car trailer and convert it to a livable van which fits my little bitty sedan inside the living space via the drop-down back door. Then I plan to hit the open road. I'll need my big gutsy Cruiser to tow that rig. I might only get 7ks per litre of diesel out of that big engine, but I only need to move 200k per pension payment! 😂😂😂 Then I can drive the little Subie around to do the site-seeing. Oh, did I mention I'm gunna have the Cruiser chassis extended by 24inches (I think was the professional advice) and throw an extra lazy axle under the tray? Oh, I do love a 3 axle ute! 😁

I have a 2002 GU Patrol with a Chev 6.5litre Diesel. I like it because it has reasonable (old fashioned) power. I have done many off road trips with more powerful modern diesels but they can be very unreliable due to the fact that everything is electronic or computer controlled. A bit of water or dust and they can die. Break one sensor and they go into limp mode.. Not much fun if you are thousands of K's from nowhere like The Canning. They also chew through the fuel when you work them hard.

I have an old manual ’97 Land Cruiser 80 series. Had it for 23 years. Turbo petrol alcoholic. 😂 It’s well maintained and never broken down. Australia is an awesome country for 4 wheeling. The Simpson Desert and our high country are my favourites.

What you called a light bar, is an awning, pull out roof, add two tent posts and tie it down, you have shade in the baking heat. You can put a frame on a ladder style rack. Put/tie your tinnie on it and flip it up on top. A tinnie is a metal row boat, or you can add an outboard motor

As a aussie, 70 series are the only vehicle we have in its class. It is also a POS for what you pay for it. Tiny drivelines and good for f all u till you spent 50k on it

Nissan patrols are the best 4x4s known to man

Love the dropside tray decks as they take a lot of punishment and never have to worry about panel and paint damage. For trades and home handyman they are insanely the best.

There's an icelandic company called Arctic trucks, that "icelandifies" trucks like Navara, Hi Lux and F150. They equip them with extreme undercarriges and HUGE wheels, to handle offroading in Iceland. They started in Iceland in the 80's, and are now sold in Norway, Finland, UK, Poland, Russia, Dubai and the US as well. You should check them out. There has been Arctic Trucks on both the North and the South pole. Top Gear UK, with Hammond, May and Clarckson drove to the North pole in one.

The 2 worst things about the late model Landcruiser Ute's are the rear axle was not widened like the front to fit the V8, they don't track straight off-road because of it you have to change the wheels to fix it or space the rear wheels out. The other problem is they don't go around smaller roundabouts very well. A lot of the farmers in my area that have one complained to Toyota because of the 2 to roundabouts in the local town (which are about 3 meters across) and the Ute's having to do a 3 point turn just to turn right or do a u-turn.

Hi Ian, love your reactions. It's always good to see an outsiders perspective. You really NEED to come to Australia! For at least a month. If you're blown away with the vid's, your head will explode when you see the place in person. BTW the exchange rate at the moment (March 2022) is floating around Aust dollar/75 cents US. You'll get good bang for your buck! It's something to experience, being out in the middle of nothing, surrounded by more than you think. Not too many (if any) countries can boast bush or desert meeting the sea, 10,000+ beaches, most empty, 1,000's of miles of massive cliffs with views into the next millennia.

Not gonna lie, I'm the biggest Landcruiser fan out there. I've had a 75 series Landcruiser. Used it mostly for farming. Work mate had an early 2000"s patrol. The thing was in the shop every 6 months or less for repairs, yet the 75 series did it all, with no worries. Had a v8 100 series. Yet another great vehicle, the only reason why I got rid of it was it chewed through the juice like a kids cafeteria. Now own an 80 series Landcruiser and my god. It's literally unkillable. I've done some really crazy shit. For example I went through 1.5m deep flood water (no I didn't know it was that deep, otherwise I wouldn't have done it) mind you, I got 33s and a 4inch lift had water flowing left to right over my bonnet and made it through, luckily. And I had no issues with the vehicle. I had a mate with a petrol 80, he literally took it on a trip to kill it. This thing was on rev limiter for over an hour, he literally did everything he could to kill it without crashing it etc. 2 hours later he's driving it back home, with everyone in awe with what he had just put it through. Yet another mate with a gq patrol, rebuilt his engine 3 times in 3 years just doing pretty ordinary 4wding. There's a reason why cruisers are so expensive and there a reason why second hand parts for older cruiser are so hard to find. That's because they're so incredibly tough, so incredibly reliable and durable. I had to replace the head on the 80 due to the previous owner. It took me a month to find one and I was really lucky, other people I know, it took them 2-6 months to find one. I'll never sell my 80 and I'll never own anything but a cruiser, they're that good. Well worth every cent. You get what you pay for.

Bit of a landcruiser fan myself , they are a well put together vehicle that lasts and lasts . my bro has an oldie about 20+ years old and it still drives like a beauty and it just never fails .

Jeeps are considered very unreliable in Australia, so don't sell many here.

G'day Ian. By far the majority of road length in Australia are dirt or gravel roads,. However by far the majority of road travel is on standard sealed road surfaces in the cities and between major regional cities and towns. Need to be going to and from and isolated area to be on gravel or dirt roads. Some of these just see a few cars or trucks a day.

Most of the current generation vehicles are sadly rebadged foreign models now, typically euro or US monstrosities. But To this day the "back to the future, marties dream truck" vehicle, also known as the Hilux utility is a super rare vehicle in the USA, and so common one is parked on every street corner in Australia. :)

I grew up in Noosa. 👍 Most cars here ,even family sedans have a tow hitch. Most families have a boat, caravan and a box trailer.

The Land Rover defender 130 ute (previous model to the current new one) is the only true 1 ton (2,200lbs) pay load ute. My father was the fleet manager of our states rail way and had to research in depth every available make and model and the LandRover was the only one he could comfortably put High-Rail gear on them so they could run on train tracks with there train wheels, they are drop down wheels front and rear, big heavy hydraulic system that supports most of the Utes and trucks weight and the ute uses is drive tyres to drive them. Once upon a time in the early 90's they were using Suzuki Serra's (samurai's) with this rail gear in our out back rural areas as track surveyor cars.

I’ve got one of the Mitsubishi Triton’s, front and rear bars fitted, long range tank, 2 inch lift and it’s awesome, a very capable truck. Hoping to get it out to the Simpson Desert later this year. Dream truck is definitely a Landcruiser though, just a bit out of my price range at the moment!

local bloke here has the GXL wagon converted to the tradie back with a floating axle. So that's a 6 wheeler. The old wheel arches get used as tool boxes. It's the nicest set up I've seen, all the bells and whistlers.

Nissan patrols, 60 series,79 series, 80 series hiluxs are the best there so light weight so reliable not much electricals in them to go wrong everything about them are great and the tracks in Australia are great I’m out there every weekend with my 80 series

Here we have a very strict weight limit for ute/car to truck/commercial vehicle. 4.5 metric tonnes gross vehicle weight (including accessories). Anything heavier requires a different license to drive. That's where our distinction between ute & truck is from. Most of your larger trucks (utes) will normally cross the limit (especially with accessories), which is why the "mid" size is normal here. Heavier vehicles are normally reserved for commercial trucks (delivery trucks, refrigerated trucks, heavy load trucks, etc.. )

Cow catcher is more often called a Roo-bar here in Australia. The reason for so many unmade roads is flooding - it makes it uneconomic to pave a lot of roads.

bars on the front of these trucks are known as bull bars or roo bars , snorkels are great to avoid bull dust on outback roads as well as river crossings

I have a mate that came to Australia 4 years ago from America.. for a holiday at my place.. The bastered still hasn't gone home... His kids fell in love with Australia.. and they stayed... His favourite comment.. in the evening we walk out the front door, and have a couple of quiet beers with the neighbours, and the kids play on the street.. Oh American gallon is only 4 litres.. rest of the world.. a gallon is 4.8 litres... The current Ford Ranger is Australian designed and engineered..

2:42- Mitsubishi Triton. comes in two and four wheel drive, single, exta and dual cab, pertol and diesel. Two spec levels. 4:27- 70 Series Land Cruiser, 4.5 litre turbo diesel, its styling was inspired by the 60 series from the 1980s Land Cruiser SUV. The first generation of what was the 75 series was first released in 1985. The basic shell changed very little, but the engines and transmissions, interior and audio evolved with each new generation. Land Cruiser Prado: mechanically their engine and driveline is based on the Hilux. Same engines, transmissions, transfer cases and a few interior parts. Mitsubishi Pajero: Apparently Mitsubishi didn't think anyone in Australia speaks Spanish. We are aware that Pajero is the Spanish word for wanker, but they thought we wouldn't notice 17:15: the VY/VZ Holden utes had an all wheel drive option, whether one tonner or Crewman versions, named a Cross 6 or Cross 8 versions, depending on what engine is under the bonnet

Another great video Ian as always 😄, hey can you do a video about what we call and Americans call trucks, trailer's, caravans, tractors etc, as there is a very big difference in what you call them and we call them 😄 cheers from 🇦🇺

The first vehicle you see, HZJ75 Troop carrier. I have the same vehicle, two inch lift, 33 inch tyre's, diff locker, low range reduction gear's, stainless steel 3 inch exhaust, stainless steel snorkel, full bar work.. and so forth. Bullet proof and will go anywhere and back reliably. the D Max deserves a mention. The big 3, for the past thirty year's. Nissan Patrol, Toyota Landcruiser, Mitzi Pajero

The problem with the 70 series cruiser is that you pay about $100,000 for a car with very limited tech. Some even come with wind down windows

Surprisingly, there is a decent amount of jeeps here. I'm still happily driving my TJ and at 320'000km (200'000 miles) it finally needed the factory timing chain done. Judging by the gaskets, it was the first time anything had ever come off that car, including the thermostat 😂

Your love for a Landcruiser is everything 😂 I hope you get one one day!

The reason for the snorkels particularly in Noosa and other coastal Queensland areas, there is a lot of flooding. No snorkel and you're stranded.

Mt favourite forby would be the old ex-army Landrover Perentie. Essentially a modified Defender 110 with a 3.9L Isuzu 4BD1 and galvanised chassis. Slow as a wet week and handle like a boat in a storm but surprisingly good off-road and a perfect platform to build on. Not to everyone's taste, and it helps to be somewhat deaf already and have a robust back...

There was actually a dual rear axle Kingswood ute. Not sure what the payload was, but it woulda been pretty impressive for its time

I love my D23 Navara. I live 30kms from the nearest town and 20kms of that is dirt roads. In that 30kms I also go from 30 metres above sea level to 400 metres above sea level and back down to sea level as the closest town is on the coast. The Navara has never missed a beat. I only ever use 4WD if it rains heaps and can’t get traction in 2WD. So I can’t say how good it is as a proper off-roader. But seems to handle Aussie conditions well. I like that after 125000 kms, nothing in the cab rattles or squeaks. To me, that says it’s built good.

Our work ute was an 1989 Mitsubishi triton. We ran it until 2015. Never missed a beat.

Those old looking V8 Landcruisers are everywhere in Australian mines, particularly underground mines where they're pretty much the only ute you'll find.

79 cruisers are double the price they should be. They look retro because they are, inside is like a 1990 car.

Ian, I can tell you that when it comes to diversity of landscape and opportunities for offroad touring, the USA leaves us in the dust. You guys have vast areas of accessible BLM land, forests and national parks that we have no idea about. We have wilderness areas but most of the land is inaccessible, either because there are no tracks or they are under native title and the public are locked out. In NSW, our national parks are so tightly controlled with gates on most tracks it is not worth driving them (they even have a ridiculous policy of no smoking in any park! I am not a smoker, but fair dinkum, how stupid). Then there is the cost of fuel here, currently approaching $2.00 per litre (about US$7.00 per gallon). I am as jealous of what you guys have as you are of us.

at 2:00, i find it funny how they blur out the words underneath the number plate but most people in Australia know that is from queensland (the sunshine state)

the brush bar or heavy bumpers as you called them, we call them bull bars, and many have a winch attached inside of them as well, so when you are doing off roading (which many of as do as a pass time, the rougher the better lol) you can pull yourself out or pull a mate out if need be,

As someone from rural Victoria, there is a big difference in how common these cars are here vs the more remote areas.

We also got here in Australia, basically a Chevrolet lumina or G8 wagon lifted with all wheel drive called a Holden Adventra for a limited run that no one else got

They are usually called Bull Bars, less so Roo Bars. The snorkels are for both powder and water drive through.

My uncle was driving across the Nullarbor in his late 70s falcon, but a roo going 80, had no bull bar, went to go open the door because it contacted the frame pf the car shortening it, 6’4 roo hopped away…

Nothing more Australian than taking your grinder cutting wheel to your quarter panel, cutting out a square and running PVC down pipe from Bunnings through it for a homemade snorkel.

I loved my BT50. Great car, very capable. I was travelling with a friend to her parents place out near Canarvon Gorge in QLD and we hit a big red kangaroo in her average sedan. No roo bar. It tore the roof off the car. Luckily we weren't hurt. That is why you need a ute with a bull bar out west.

The most unique thing about Australian 4x4s is almost all will have bull bars , very necessary out in the bush ,the repair bills would kill you otherwise , or your insurance company would .

Also another random forgotten vehicle - Toyota corona (aka carina in USA) this was a small family sized car with the same engine as the hilux, toyota commercial/passenger bus, celica and early supra. It could tow a truck and still overtake up hill on the highway. It also had a liftback variant that was basically a 4 door sports car - toyotas answer to the mustang fastback or holden torana.

In Australia jeeps are seen as a piece of crap. And also we don’t have brush guards on our cars we have bull bars

I live in North East Victoria, on the doorstep of the Victorian high country, the four wheel driving and camping, as well as fishing and hunting is just up the track from me, WHEN you get here, not IF you get here, I would be willing to guide you and your family all over the high country, show some of the old Cattlemen's huts, and whatever takes your fancy

HSV also made a Colorado variant after Commodores ended production. HSV Colorado Sports Cat, there was almost a V8 version of it too.

The irony is that New Zealand would have ones that you could not buy in Australia as well . I think a lot of car manufactures would use NZ as a Testing ground . A friend of a friend had a side business of shipping Utes over to Australia

The Mitsubishi is a Triton. The Toyota towing the low tow is a Land Cruiser known as a Troop Carrier. That wasn't a light bar on the side of the Pajero, it was a retractable shade/awning

The reason everyone in Australia has bullbars / scrub bars / nudge bars is because it's not an "if you hit a kangaroo" type deal, its "when you hit a kangaroo" you don't want to write off your car

Just got home (it’s Sunday evening) from camping by the beach with a group of friends. We own a ‘99 Pajero & a 2018 model. We love the ‘99 Paj so much we bought another one 😂 In our group alone there was a Ford Ranger, older Toyota Hilux, 3 Nissan Patrols (old & new), a Jeep Wrangler + our Pajeros. Most of which are lifted, have snorkels & a varying range of gear. Hooking down the beach, it was an interesting convoy of 4x4s. All did well except for one of the Nissan Patrol Utes which blew a head gasket. With the tide coming in it got a bit hairy but recovery was achieved.

you definatly will love to visit, i currently have in my shop a Nissan Patrol that has been converted with a supercharged ford barra in it, absolute beast. this is the type of stuff we get up to haha

Julie's husband Vince here. Great video/reaction mate. We're just getting into off 4WD. I had to replace my car anyway and was looking for a early 2000's Prado but just couldn't find one in Adelaide. Ended up getting a late 2015 "Mitsubishi Challenger" (Pajero sport or Montero sport Overseas). I'm well pleased with it. It's got 88kms on the clock and almost no extras but it's in absolute mint condition, so it's like a blank canvas in that I'll mod it up how I want. It drives so well and is great in city driving as well as being a pretty capable off road vehicle. Hope you get here sometime Ian. Cheers.

That Colorado has a body kit on it, that's not standard (which is a LOT plainer). We have a dual cab Mitsubishi Triton manual, and it's a great vehicle for offroad, towing and around town. Good fuel consumption too. And the dog says the back seat is super comfy, too.

We really have it all, my neighbor just got a 2021 BT50 dual cab ute for towing his caravan and he is super happy with it. 👍🤠

The Colorado is an Isuzu that is/was a General Motors company, they are made in Thailand from 2008 in 2007 the name of these were rodeo , these cars are sold in australia under the Holden name and Isuzu name alongside each other

There's a certain way to drive this land cruser truck. Most people, drive it as how they'd drive a normal manual transmission car. But for a land cruiser when off-roading you've got to revv the engine when shifting gears up or down, especially when your slowing down and shifting to a lower gear or when your going up hill, you have to master the art of clutching. It's how you get the max power out of the engine.

We have a 1999 GU Nissan Patrol TD4.2ST fully set up as a touring class 4WD, it has been to the most northern part of Australia and the most southern part of Australia, why a 1999, when heading out into the outback, you have a number of water crossings, due to this model having none of the electronic gear like the modern era of 4WDs, we don't have problems with water crossings. This model only needs a locker on the front axle. BTW it has an ARB Bull Bar and Winch.

The fact the land cruiser utes at 4:00 don't exist in the US is absolutely wild to me because they are like, the mainstay of every goddamn farmer in the country. It'd be like if you found out that someone in another country had just never seen a drink bottle, its just a totally innocuous staple of life.

tthe toyota 70 started in 1984, thats why it looks retro.

Here is a little tid bit of info for ya. Now ya know why the older models looked very much the same. "GM and Isuzu end ute collaboration, Holden Colorado to move upmarket Late last week General Motors and Isuzu announced the two companies will be not be jointly developing their next-generation utes, which are currently sold in Australia as the Holden Colorado and Isuzu D-Max. 25 July 2016"

If only Aussies would drive them off road as they were designed to do! There are thousands of them on city streets and in suburbia and when you have one in front of you, you can’t see anything else! It’s truly alarming to have three or four of them surrounding you in your little car! 😱😱

17:19 In the US it's named Pontiac g8 sport truck

Currently working on a jmax 6x6 Toyota 79 series at work and it’s awesome. We are putting a tray an canopy on it. Keep up the awesome vids mate 🤠

We don't call the bars Brush Bars, in the City they call them Bull Bars. In the country they are more commonly known as ROO (kangaroo) Bars.

You're getting close to home with your last couple of videos, 1st was the Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo which is just over 20 minutes away from my house and now this one is in Noosa Heads on the Sunshine Coast about 40 minutes the other way from my house. 😀

Holden was making 1 metric ton car body day cab cabin vehicles with tray backs like that pictured on the Toyota land cruise from the early 70’s the HQ, HJ, HX, HZ, WB, to 1984 , the front clip doors windscreen mudguards bonnet front apron , every part from the rear of the front doors to the front bumper was identical as the family sedans that Holden produced in the H range of cars

The Rangers were actually designed and engineered in Australia and built in Thailand, initially the USA didn't want them but as they proved their reliability and excellence they finally made their way to the USA.

The first white Mitsubishi is a Triton loved my old one , but back to my Toyota Prado which is a perfect family 4x4

current shape ranger was designed in australia

The Ford Ranger is designed on Australia with Ford Europe engines and built in Thailand. It's no surprise that it is Australia focused.

Those front bars are called bull bars and we need them here for the absurd amount of roos which are suicidal when they see a set of headlights 😂