Indestructible! BEST Vehicle on Earth! The 1990's Toyota Pickup!

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The Greatest Vehicle That's Ever Lived

Can confirm. Have a 95 Toyota pickup deluxe with 895k miles. Original 22re engine, 5 speed transmission, and differential. Has working ac and crank windows. Has a valve cover leak, and has been hit by countless deer so the front end has been replaced over 3 times. The plant is chipped and fading. But, she starts every time. The trucks been with me through countless relationships, and eventually drove my wife and I home from our wedding. When I got sick, lost my job and had my car repoed, my trusty Toyota was right there for me. It’s done everything we’ve asked of it and more. I can say with 100% certainty, we will never sell it or junk it. I don’t care what regulations are passed here in California, the truck will always be in my garage, ready to take me anywhere.

I know a lady who owns that precise model 1991 Toyota Pickup. The last time I saw her the mileage was close to the 350K miles. She bought it brand new. Other than regular oil changes and routine preventative maintenance it runs great. She had to replace the water pump, but this was at the 125K point. The truck runs very well!

Top Gear tried to destroy one of these trucks and failed. They set it in fire, ran it through salt water and in an ultimate test placed it on the top of a building that was blown up with explosives, and despite been a bit twisted it still ran. The best free advert that Toyota could have wished for.

There's a reason the flipflop brigade use hilux's with entire AA guns on the back lol. Gotta respect the sandals even if you don't agree with what they do, they're creative and make do with what they got. Imagine how much money a company in the US/Canada would make if they were allowed to sell a ~20,000 basic, small pickup that's reliable. No fancy sensors and cameras all over the place, no SUV-sized seating arrangement meaning you get more than a few chairs worth of bed.

People sometimes forget there is great number of us that just need to go from A to B and back. All the bells and whistles can be saved for the family car.

Had a customer with an 89 Extra Cab 2wd, had almost 300,000 miles on it, had some rust and many dents and scratches. Had a trans fluid leak from the output shaft. Driveshaft bushing was allowing too much play, causing the seals to tear. At the time, our local machine shop would not replace the tails haft bushing. Had to order the tails haft assembly with a new bushing in it from Toyota. Labor of course was just an hour, but that tailsshaft assembly was over $600 bucks. Owner didn't blink, just said fix it!

My grandfather had one of these. I can confirm that the back seat is awfully uncomfortable! Especially on a 4 hour trip to the mountains.

Pride owner of a 2023 diesel Hilux. All, new and old ones, are bullet proof. The only thing that will end up killing them are environmental regulations ... Greetings from Argentina!

I purchased an 1986 truck with the 22RE motor. Drove it for over 200,000 mi with no issues. Those were the good old days.

I watched Top Gear abuse the hell out of one of these. They had it literally swept into the ocean, dropped by a crane, and collapsed into a building under demolition. And it still ran after everything the Top Gear crew did to it, with only basic hand tools to repair it

I grew up a Dodge guy, then switched to GM when I became a tech at a Chevy dealership. An older tech I worked with at an independent shop always told how reliable Toyota's were. Being wet behind the ears I brushed him off. After moving I worked at a Toyota dealership. I finally saw the light. Currently have a 2000 Camry with 206k, 2007 Rav 4 with 241k, and a 06 Tundra with 186k. I can't speak to the newer Toyotas but the older ones cannot be beat!!

I had a high school friend who still has his 1990 toyota pickup 4x4 painted black like Marty's (back to the future) with over 1.1 million miles in Michigan. He does oil under coats on it regularly and it's almost never gonna die. The 22re will live on into the apocalypse.

Storytime. My gf in '84 had a '82 Toyota truck with 90k miles (!). She wasn't sure if she had ever changed the oil and she was sure she had never changed the sparkplugs (this was when they had 30k lifespans). I had to use a drill to remove the oil filter and a screwdriver to punch through the oil drain opening to get it to flow, and one of the sparkplugs was missing the ground electrode and three were missing chunks of their insulators. I replaced the oil and filter and plugs and it had noticeably more power but got a little worse gas mileage. Incredible vehicle. When it came time for me to replace my F-150 I remembered it and chose a bank-repo '00 Tundra V8 that had been repo'd after only four months of ownership. Had the $27k window sticker in the glove box and I got it for under $19k. It turns 25 years old next month, has the original alternator, has never needed an a/c recharge, and I've had to replace one coil.

My 91 pickup 4wd 22re with 5 speed is teaching me so much about cars. This month im upgrading to some bilstein shocks and getting fresh rotors, pads, calipers. its sooo satisfying sprucing up the 30+ year old truck with new stuff and making it last another 30 hopefully. It has 160k miles and runs really well

I have had several of these trucks, but for me the reliability champ was a 1978 Mercedes 300D that I got 500,000 miles out of with only routine maintenance and minor repairs.

I 100% agree. I have a '94 4x4 Toyota Pickup that has been in my family from day one. It - as they say - "keeps on ticking'. One surprising thing to me (among many) is that it starts up without any hesitation, every time.

Where I work the top mechanic drives one of these, he bought it new in '94. Single cab short bed 4x4. Almost 500k miles. 3 things have broken in 30 years. THREE. Combined, they cost less than $100. A couple years ago he did pull the engine to reseal and refresh everything, but it's all original. My grandpa had one just like this, a '96. 22re 5 speed. I drove it a few times. The clutch didn't bite until it was basically all the way out. You could shift it without even pressing on the clutch, just the weight of your foot was enough. No tach, so you had to listen to the engine and feel the gears out. That truck was sold and totaled some years later in a really bad wreck, but everyone survived.

I have a 2000 4Runner with the updated 3.4v6, and that thing WILL NOT DIE. My family has owned it since new. In its 25 years and 240,000 miles it has LITERALLY NEVER not started. Best car I’ve ever owned