THAT old adage “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” could have been coined for the Toyota Hilux.
Motor vehicles have tackled fire and ice in locations as hostile as Antarctica and the Sahara, but nothing compares to meeting an erupting volcano head on.
But the rugged Toyota was there in the wake of the exploding rock and lava of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Šjust hours before its eruption brought chaos to the skies of Europe.
The pick-up proved the ideal transport for scientists racing to set up monitoring equipment before the mountain blew its top and sent a cloud of ash 30,000 feet into the sky.
