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HILUX 4X2 SR HI-RIDER

The Toyota HiLux has always bumped around in an odd netherworld between bushy suburbia and the blue-collar universe.

Starting life as a simple, rugged tool for the hard-hat and Akubra brigades, along the way it’s morphed into one of the most popular passenger vehicles in Australia. That dual identity brings with it a series of compromises that the HiLux’s original designers never really planned for.

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