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Remember the Toyota TV ad where the kids at school bragged about their parents’ Hilux bakkies? It ended with one of them proudly proclaiming that his father’s Hilux was “tougher” than the others. With so many bakkies operating exclusively between homes, offices, schools, and shopping malls, the debates in the schoolyard about who bakkie is “faster” are actually more relevant than his toughness.
Despite being South Africa’s best-selling bakkie for what feels like an eternity, Hilux has never excelled at speed betting. Judging by its phenomenal sales figures, this matters very little to most bakkie buyers, but it is something that nonetheless plays into the hands of Toyota’s main rival, Ford.
In fact, the Blue Oval had two engine derivatives, the 3.2-liter 147kW / 470Nm TDCi and the 2.0-liter 157kW / 500Nm biturbo that could outperform the iconic Hilux crew cab with the 130kW / 450Nm oil-burning heart 2.8 GD-6. . And by advance I mean the two Rangers that go from 0 to 100 km / h in one second faster than the Hilux. But all this changed with the recent introduction of the powered Hilux.
Through a larger turbocharger and a new common-rail injection system, the 2.8-liter GD-6 benefits from a power increase of 20 kW of power and 50 Nm of torque, which means that the new totals of 150 kW / 500 Nm of weight increase much evenly with its Ranger rivals. But cars don’t run on paper and these numbers won’t mean anything if they’re not backed up on the track.
So we took the new Hilux en 2.8 GD-6 Crew Cab 4 × 4 with Legend RS automatic appearance to Gerotek’s test facility armed with road test editor Mark Jones’ high-tech timing equipment for a race against time. . And as an added bonus, we took our Ranger 2.0 BiT Thunder 4 × 4 car long-term to allow our subjects to face off in an endurance race as well for more fun.
As we expected, the new Hilux outperformed its Raider sibling that Mark tested in 2016 by cutting 1.04 seconds in time from 0 to 100 km / h, reducing that number from 13.42 to 12.38 seconds. It is important to note that the Legend was slower off the line than the Raider due to its higher weight. The larger turbo shows lag out of the line, but from there it does its job further up the rev range. In the end, the new Hilux managed to reach 140 km / h in four seconds faster than before.
For complete Legend test results, click here.
The obvious question now is, how does the new and improved Hilux compare to the Ranger? The short answer: very interesting. As for the shootout against the Thunder, the Hilux won.
To see full test results for the Thunder, click here.
Because the Thunder is a bit heavier than the similarly powered Wildtrak we tested last year, it ran a bit slower than its sibling. While the Wildtrak took 12.45 seconds to reach 100 km / h from a standstill, the Thunder could only handle 12.78 seconds. Although it should be noted that the Thunder were faster off the line and managed to stay ahead of the Legend to the 80km / h mark before being swept away by the Toyota.
Please note that the actual data was not recorded during our endurance race and the video shots are not an accurate reflection of the individual bakkie times. It’s simply impossible to get them both off the line at the same time, and even a split second lost on the line will make a huge difference during the sprint.
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The most interesting part of this entire rivalry is that Ford’s 3.2 TDCi was still faster from standing to 100 km / h than the Hilux on, albeit by the narrower margins. Our 2016 test results for the five-cylinder TDCi, which is still offered in Wildtrak and Thunder form, show this Ford took 12.34 seconds to go from 0-100 km / h, 0.04 seconds faster. than the new Hilux.
These margins are small, but they show that Toyota has managed to match one of Ford’s major trump cards in its ongoing double-cab bakkie war. As if the race between the two had not been closed before, it just became much more “closed”.
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