The Freedom Riding Company put together this pretty awesome grassroots video of the Jeep Rubicon and Toyota FJ Cruiser clubs doing a little wheelin’. They’re in mountains of Peacock Flats on Oahu overlooking the North Pacific.
This is one of those gems of a video that YouTube is great for. Some guy I’ve never met on the other side of the world happened to have this as part of his old VHS collection and it was so awesome that he decided to upload it so the rest of us could enjoy it. The name of this video is “Getting Through” and it’s an offroad driving instructional filmed in the early 80’s exclusively with Toyota four wheel drive legends like the FJ40 and FJ60 Landcruisers and Hilux trucks. They cover the proper way to tackle rocky terrain, water crossings, sand and mud with footage from all over Australia. I’m sure the makers of the video would be glad to know it was still teaching people things 30 years after it was produced.
Founded in 2007, the King of the Hammers race combines high speed desert racing with technical rock crawling to form one of the ultimate forms of off-road racing. This is highlights from this year’s race that took place in February.
This was the featured video of the Toyota Europe YouTube video. Apparently the Icelandic company that made the crazy Top Gear Hilux trucks hasn’t just been sitting around waiting for Top Gear to come up with something else for them to do. They recently set a record for reaching the South Pole.
This is Tanner Foust on the Nurburgring in a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. I’m guessing this is a factory backed effort since Foust drives a Ford Fiesta rally/gymkhana car. That’s gotta take some balls to drive an offroad vehicle on the world’s most difficult road racing track much less drift it through Schwalbenschwanz.