Toyota FJ40: the truck that won by never breaking down Here’s a fact that should sting a little if you grew up on American iron. The vehicle that first put Toyota on the map in the United States wasn’t the Corolla, or the Corona, or the Celica. It was a boxy Japanese 4×4 that looked … Read more
The Pinzgauer Is the Best Camper Base on Earth (and the One You Shouldn’t Buy) Top Gear once parked a Pinzgauer next to a Land Rover and the joke wrote itself: one of them looked like it had wandered off a NATO base, the other looked like it wanted to go to Waitrose. Twenty years … Read more
The Unimog Was Built to Straddle Two Rows of Potatoes (and Ended Up Crossing Deserts) Jeremy Clarkson once drove a Unimog through a brick wall on Top Gear and seemed genuinely surprised when the wall lost. That’s the Unimog in one image: a vehicle so absurdly overbuilt that demolishing a house feels like a Tuesday. … Read more
Santana Motor: the Spanish 4×4 that humiliated the British, died with the country — and just came back with Chinese blood You’ve probably never heard of Linares. It’s a small city in the south of Spain, sitting in the middle of an olive-tree ocean in the province of Jaén — historically one of the poorest … Read more
LAMBORGHINI LM002: The engine doesn’t match the car Pop the asymmetric bonnet of a Lamborghini LM002 and look down. What you’re seeing is a Tipo L510 V12. 5,167 cc. Double overhead cams per bank. Four valves per cylinder. Six twin-choke Weber carburettors feeding twelve cylinders. 444 hp at 6,800 rpm. That engine has no business … Read more
