2016 Toyota Hilux Unleashed: Favored By Militants, World's Best Selling Small ... - International Business Times

Toyota has unveiled the first all-new version of its immensely popular Hilux in a decade, giving the world’s bestselling small pickup truck a fresh look, more power and added tech features. But owing to the truck’s rugged reputation that has long lured buyers from the Australian Outback to the battlefields of Syria, Toyota designers still don’t think Hilux drivers want a vanity mirror — and they’re probably right. “Traditionally the Hilux was very much a workhorse-based, tool-of-trade vehicle,” Tony Cramb, Toyota’s head of sales in Australia, told news. Battles taking place in Syria showcase both ISIS fighters and Free Syrian Army rebels using the Hilux to outflank each other. Cheap, rugged and dependable, the Toyota Hilux has become the ubiquitous troop transport and heavy-caliber machine-gun mount for any band of rebels that can’t get their hands on military-grade vehicles. It’s often seen with Toyota’s beefier Land Cruiser pickup trucks, which are used to haul larger anti-aircraft guns. Together the Hilux and the Land Cruiser pickup offer a unit both heavy-caliber ground fire and the ability to take down helicopters while carrying several fighters. Source: www.ibtimes.com