Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "American Reacts to HILARIOUS Hilux Ads Part 2 - Australia" video.

  1. The Whistlin' Diesel video...hang on, EVERYBODY in this comment section will know, so why am I say this...was a challenge/homage to the Top Gear video series. I have an early association with the Hilux and as such, never thought of them as a 'tough' ute. I worked in seismic oil search throughout Western Queensland in the late 70s-very early 80s and drove all manner of Toyota Landcruiser 4WDs; troopies, utes, wagons, and they were all tough vehicles. One of the survey crews came in with Hiluxes, which were kind of novel back then. Unfortunately, they were just too light for the conditions we were working in. We made our own tracks when the bulldozers couldn't due to terrain issues and the Hilux couldn't cope. They were woefully underpowered back then and were considered 'paddock utes', not serious 4WDs. We were driving the Landcruiser utes up insanely steep hillsides and through some disgustingly boggy wet country at times that the Hilux utes couldn't deal with. Nowadays it's a different story. The Hilux has grown up to be as good as its brother, and arguably a bit more sexy.
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  2. I'm probably repeating other comments, but yeah, we have some places with not so much border controls, but more quarantine controls. Some states have quarantine restrictions that prohibit carrying fruit over certain borders, for example, Western Australia, and we even have quarantine checkpoints through certain parts of a particular state. There is a checkpoint on the road up through cape york where certain fruits are banned from outside. Back in the day when Fruit Fly was an even bigger issue than it is now, you couldn't carry fruit into particular citrus growing regions. For many years, Queensland had quarantine controls on every border crossing, including so-called back roads. Nowadays, all the former Queensland fruit checkpoints are used to stop Gucci carrying Hipsters soiling our land, as witnessed in that documentary purporting to be a Toyota advert.
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  3. A lot of these ads were sold in South Africa (as shown by the website links in the ads) with no changes. These commercials were made when Australian ad agencies were flavour of the month. We were embracing our Bogan and didn't care what the rest of the world thought.
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