Not really. However, Toyota has announced today that a group of Toyota Hilux trucks were present at the Eyjafallajokull volcano in Iceland just hours before its eruption. The Toyota Hilux trucks were modified by Arctic Trucks to be able to withstand the harsh conditions around the volcano. Arctic Trucks is the same company that modified the Toyota Hilux used by Top Gear to reach the North Pole.
There have been some reports that Top Gear was filming a new episode at the Iceland volcano just days before its eruption, that put half of Europe on hold.
The Toyota Hilux trucks that appear in these images taken at the sight of the eruption could be part of this episode.
It seems the Toyota Hilux can go to both magnetic poles of the Earth and inside the volcano. We're wondering what's next.
Toyota Press Release:
A new chapter has been written in the world-conquering history of Toyota’s mighty Hilux as it took on the ice and fire of Iceland’s Eyjafallajökull volcano, just hours before its eruption brought
chaos to the skies of Europe.
The legendary pick-up that Top Gear simply could not destroy and which was the first car to be driven across the Arctic to the Magnetic North Pole proved the perfect transport for scientists racing to set up monitoring equipment before the long-dormant mountain blew its top and sent a vast cloud of ash 30,000 feet into the sky.
The vehicles used for the expedition were prepared by specialist firm Arctic Trucks to the same extreme environment specification as the Hilux used by Jeremy Clarkson and James May for
their historic polar expedition. With giant low pressure 38-inch tyres, the go-anywhere Hilux had the measure of every challenge in its path as it made its way through ice and snow towards the volcano’s fiery heart.
With Europe’s most advanced aircraft rendered powerless by the ash-filled atmosphere, it’s Hilux that once again has proved itself the master of everything man and nature can put in its path.
