#140 - 2026 Toyota Hilux with Bo Allan

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Yeah, the wave's back.

The wave is back, mate. Our first wave.

All right, this is the four-wheel drive podcast.

Power by tire power. Oh, my God, power by tire power.

Oh, no. Oh, no. That's good one. Let's go. Let's go.

All right, this is the four-wheel drive podcast.

The power by tire power recording in grounded.

Highlights of all places.

I was about to say the studio built by grounded.

We are in the high Lux built by grounded right now,

Genuinely is built by grounded this there's a wicked feature that I'm keen

to show you on the back on the tray.

Yeah, I reckon you'll love it being a being a Ute guy.

Yeah. I think you'll like it.

We'll get to that a bit later when we walk around.

I have literally jumped from the front door in my house inside

the passenger seat of this car.

Now we've got a bit of a this is a cool episode coming up. We're on our way

We're gonna we're gonna run this like a normal episode. Yeah amongst and how quiet is it in here?

It is pretty quiet. I hope the I hope the audio quality is okay

Yeah, please forgive us if it isn't we'll do our best. Yeah, we are genuinely driving around in a 2026 Toyota Hilux

Yep, which is sponsored by a tough dog in time out of mind you just still going with tough dog in time

I'm almost 100% sure that the tires on this car were fitted by

Knowing how knowing how quality grounded do yes, and I know that they'll be looking at some tough dog suspension as well

Yes, obviously grounded they do massive dongers

They got big quality quality products quality quality dongers as we've always said mate size does matter now

I think we should I think we give a little quick update on I'm sorry a quick background on grounded and what grounded is there's

Grounded so they are a construction and infrastructure company focus on the mining and resources sector

Great crossover for us with the footy club as well. So I know Paulie quite well who's right up there at grounded

Great Paulie Paulie. Yeah, Paulie Natoli. I think they build mining camps accommodation villages

They're modular portable buildings. They so they do the full project

Delivery so end to end they handle design construction

installation refurb relocation of buildings

They do civil and site infrastructure works remote project expertise and they emphasize

Creating liveable communities

For workers in remote areas, so they're basically building mining camps. They are so everything from the gyms or rec areas

Obviously the accommodation where they're staying

Yeah, if you're a FIFO high chances, you're staying in a grounded condo and we're grounded

Area

But it's a great great nine people play on words there. Yeah, they're logo

I don't know if you can stand on your honor

You've got the grounded hat on but you've just got grounded on it. They're logo is a g-spot. They call it

They call it the g-spot. Yeah. Yeah, but good people

They've lent us another background they've lent us the 2026

Hilux now Jaden will give you a run around the car as part of this podcast to

But basically a little background on the Hilux so it's a grounded of it's not it's quite stock

But not exactly like it's the perfect. I would say weekend is set up. Yeah, it is. So we've got a ninth generation

Hilux, it's a 2.8 liter the 48 volt hybrid. Yeah, so we've spoken plenty about that

Probably nothing really new in this in this car compared to the older Hilux is the 8th gen and all that

Will by same dimensions the exterior front and rear was designed by Toyota Australia's Melbourne team

So that that's a little bit. That's good. I think that's quite cool. And that's become

The same uniform in over 150 countries. So that's just turned off. There we go. That's the 48 volt in action

So what what I was doing there was I didn't have my foot fully pressed on the brake

I had it enough to stop and it came up with a little oh, there we go. And we're off

It came up with little

Notification on the screen in front of me the dash which has actually got a lot of pop-ups and stuff on here

So it can be a little bit overwhelming, but came up said push push brake in harder to activate

Automatic stopping right or engine off when you stop and that yeah

Did you just tap it in a little bit once you took your foot off the brake did that start it immediately?

Okay, so I even put it on the accelerator. That's the 48 volt motor. That's the 48 volt motor there

Yeah, that's helping out that lag time. Yep. Yeah, exactly. Which is pretty it's pretty nice. The other thing as well that I

Think we've we've noted down that's changed in the Hilux is is now that we've got electric power steering instead of hydraulic

Yep, we're an electric power steering. Do you feel that you can feel it

I was coming straight out of the high other the wagon the 76

I drove the 76 straight to ground and picked this up. Yep, and what a change it is gone from a wagon to a Ute

Obviously, obviously it is that I'm not saying it's this to like break ground or anything like that

But you you didn't you feel it a lot. Yep

That's something that's new to the Hilux it's new. Oh, yeah, the electric power steering is yeah, and you knew new

Implementation, you know what I think that was part of the reason I

Chose but the steering in the Ranger when I bought that in 2017. Yeah was just unbeatable at the time

I felt maybe not unbeatable. I don't know I could try it every single car or youth on the market

But the steering in that because that that has been electric power steering since 2015

Yeah, okay to yeah, sorry that the mark too, but that that is

Yeah, but I think there's always the case for maybe horses have been a little bit more agricultural

But I think I don't feel like there's anything agricultural about this

No, it'll do all that. It does not feel it. It doesn't feel it

And this interior, which I'm sure you'll get a look at too. It's it's extremely comfortable. I'm not sure what model this is like

Spec no, but it's a trim is beautiful. I like I kind of like this the screens

Massive, yeah, you think it's seven eight inch. I think it's a 17-inch display big size big size, and you know

It's a size matter. Let's not let's not get it. It's size matters. Everyone knows

But it's a beautiful screen and super easy to connect up with the with the Bluetooth, which is just a normal feature

I was sure that's my most cars. Yeah, this is car play through blue. That's cool. So on

In my car, I've got I've changed the display of the the head unit

To an aftermarket one. Yeah, but I still have to plug in to get to get a car play. Yeah, this is Bluetooth

That's I like that a lot. Yeah, I agree. I agree

But it also feel I don't know it feels like the Hilux is kind of Toyota and everything if they're getting modernized

They're city drivers now

These cars are designed for city people. Yeah, it'll get out and get around no doubt about it at all

Like they're still high Hilux Rangers all those cars are still yeah elite cars

You can't you can't get much better. That's why they're so popular. Yeah, especially for driving and stuff

But it genuinely does feel like a much more modern modern. Yeah, I like like they finally come up to to where they should be

Yeah, that kind of stuff. I don't know. Now this is gonna be a normal podcast. So I want to get through

No, no, this is what it's about. We're driving the Hilux. Oh, there you go. Yeah

So does that the aircon still stays on everything? Yeah, that's what it helps me to that's that's the whole trick to it. So it shouldn't

Yeah, that shouldn't lack at all. Yeah foot off the brake and it's on again instant roll. Yeah, like it now

I've got a quick one. Yeah tough dog tip of the week tough. So I'll do quality suspension

So here's a quality tip for our quality listeners from me a quality bloke. I didn't want to say

No, no, well, you are you are now our quality listeners while we're waiting to turn here

You mentioned last week in last week's episode about checking your suspension

before the winter

Down south here tracks get a bit muddy

Good time to do a bit of maintenance. This is beautiful from a good wave. Good wave. Yeah, great wave. Um, I

Notice the car behind me didn't wave

Should we um, no, they're not a four-wheel drive

Just go just make sure you know your wave next time. Um, so anyway, this this tough dog tip is around winter camping

Yeah, um, rather than anything to do with the vehicles or the way we draw up

Whatever is winter specific camping because we are coming into that time. You're still 28 degrees here, but beautiful day today

I'm assuming over east. It's starting to get a little bit cooler. Yeah down south. So

Winter camping tip. I've got a three for you. Okay, three three tips. Yeah three

It's and they're about sort of staying warm. Okay, stay warm while camping in winter. Yeah, or sleeping mainly. Okay. So first one is

30 to say 30 to 60 seconds of really light exercise

So maybe some squats and push push ups few laps the car star jumps

Yeah, before you jumping to it jump into the sleeping bag

Obviously don't want to stimulate yourself too much where you can't actually put the head on the pillow and go to sleep

Yeah, but before you jump into the sleeping bag

You'll generate a little bit of body heat, right?

If you do that right before you jump into your sleeping bag

You trap all that warmth in from your body rather than letting it dissipate into the air

So you just you generate a little bit of body warmth little then get trapped into your sleeping bag if you've got a decent quality sleeping bag

Yeah, okay, so that's one if you think you're gonna be fresh it's not you don't want to get sweaty

No, it's your body will generate a little bit of body heat for you. That's one

The second one is sleeping dedicated sleep socks

So dry socks equal warm feet if you sleep inside like slightly sweaty or slightly wet socks from throughout the day

Yeah, you haven't planned ahead and packed enough

That wet will suck the heat out of your body

so it's

It makes sense to go to bed in a dry pair to keep your feet warm because you know if your feet are cold

Or your feet are warm it normally is a good tell for how the rest of your body feels. Yeah, so

If they're slightly sweaty or slightly wet don't wear them into your sleeping bag because that will suck the heat away from your body

I like that dry pair of socks sleeping and sleeping only

Yeah, keep them dry and the last one is you'll notice when you're sleeping in the cold and you just leave your phone or

potentially a head torch like your battery

Battery is drained and killed faster by the cold air

So you'll notice sometimes when you put your phone in the side of the swag you wake up in the morning

It's just gone from 80% to 15% and you have not used it

That's because the cold will drain your battery much faster than a normal temperature. So I did not know that

I thought the cold would have protected it a little bit. It does feel like that

So if you sleep with those in your sleeping bag, then you just you save those batteries a little bit longer

Especially stuff like your head torch where you don't have a battery level. It's actually just

The batteries in there they will suffer a little bit too from being cold overnight

Yeah, and so they don't like the cold weather. So another one there for if you need to charge in the morning

And you're not maybe moving camp where you don't have the greatest 12 volt set or set up to charge your phone back up

Yeah, don't put it keep it in your sleeping bag

Keep it in your sleeping bag next to your body where your core temperature will keep it a little bit warmer

What if there's a bag or something you can throw your phone in?

I thought that yeah, maybe a box that could put your phone in a sock something of that nature

Fresh sock. I reckon if you go let's go straight go straight through here. Can we go straight through there?

Let's get to Butler or we could go right and we'll go to go to that reserve. Yeah, we'll do that. Yeah, let's do that

Good tips mate. I like those

So there's a few ones for when it gets a bit cool because you're waking up this morning and yesterday morning a little bit cooler

Little bit cooler feel it. You got a jump run over here in Perth. So

But you can take it

I'm sure we called grounded they'd built us a little ramp or something to get over now as we go to pull up at

This park. I think this deserves a bit more time a bit more love a bit more love

But I'm gonna talk about it now. Yeah, okay, do you reckon?

The gila the gila. Oh, yeah

Let's have a quick chat through the gila before bow gets in and then we'll we'll do so I can't get through

Okay, straight. That's right. The good thing about the Hilux is it goes anywhere. It goes straight

Around a bit

That might the steering in this is

It's a really smooth it's a really smooth

It's a perfect car to do every single

Yeah, it is well, I'm not doing it out of the 76 tell you that no steering on that. There's a fair bit of play

Right, so on the radar, let's get through this quick. You have a guest coming. Let's be cool

So it's called this is things called the gila galaxy battleship 700. It's a Chinese vehicle

It's a car. It's yes. It's a concept on its way to production. So it's not so sorry

It's not just a concept anymore. It's actually it's the thing becoming a thing. Okay, the gila gila

So it's about g e l y gila. I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce it l y. Yeah, so basically this thing is

Being built to rival say it's a Chinese brand. It's been built to rival

This this vehicle, but specifically he's been built as a bit of a 300 series

It's a similar bit similar to the tank

Okay, like the Bronco that they're doing now

Yeah, it's it's around that so you can go and have a look at what it looks like

The gila galaxy battleship 700. I think it's something else in the child

Yeah

So the gila, so the thing about this car that sparked my interest when I was having a look

Was that the all-terrain system is supposedly a i generated

No, what what do you mean? So it is it's actually a little bit if you go straight

I think there's a park in here coffee if um

It's so to me extremely confusing. I was like, what what do you mean by that? But

Apparently the vehicle when when you are off-roading will continuously read whether you are what terrain you're in so whether it's sand

Whether you're in mud whether your water

Rocks whatever it might be so it's continuously reading the sort of terrain that you're on and what the vehicle requires

And it will automatically adjust the torque split between wheels

the suspension height

the steering angle and

Whether or not it's so it's a hybrid delivery

So it's a hybrid vehicle hybrid power delivery. So whether it needs

Electric boost or whether it petrol delivered. So they're using it to impute the generation

But it's not a it's not a soft rotor. They're they're trying to spruce this up as a genuine four-wheel drive. So

um ladder frame chassis low range gearing locking rear deer for adjustable ride height so that they like it's

Legit land cruise of patrol stuff they're sort of saying

It doesn't look like that when you see the car. It definitely it looks more of like a

250 prato spec bit square a bit square

Take may you know the old

soccer mom car right for one of a better term

But that is what they're going. It's got the crab walk with the four-wheel steering can do a tank turn and they

It's controversial. So it might not make production. They're saying right. They reckon it's got a swim mode

A swim and it can float through water at eight and a half kilometers an hour

If it gets a little bit too deep for the 800 mil weighting hot depth. Is this real you've got a this is a boat

No, no, this is written up by many unless it's going on April Fool's Day

But no, this is but there's a genuine season April Fool. It's already been tested in the snow and desert dunes in china

It's not April Fool's day physical switches to engage

Modes manually. So they've got like rather than like it's a very heavy ai tech car

But they've kept manual switches a bit like a land cruise or almost

Yeah, that mixture and that feel like the grenadier

a little bit. Yeah a little bit

They're targeting a similar market to that Defender 300 series Bronco those sort of things

Um, and they yeah like like I said at the start and then obviously pronounced Geely Geely Geely Geely. So that's uh

That's a little bit on that and I think it's

I think it's so see whether or not it works whether or not it in australian conditions. The concept is wicked. The concept is wicked

If it makes it it makes it

I don't think it'd be very popular here right away, but or at all to be honest. Yeah

But I think it's pretty buddy cool. I guess the interesting conversation is around the use of ai, right?

Yeah, well that that that's why you're gonna trust that

I don't trust ai at the moment

With everything like you're double checking you're going through things you're asking it like

Help on research that you've already done. Yeah, this is I mean that's the way I use it

yeah, if it was controlling my car

And selecting modes based on what it thought was best

I hope that works really well. Yeah

It could be but I have some concerns about it. I don't know. I don't know but anyway, it's

It's that's an on-the-radar thing. Yeah. Oh, that's a great idea right after you know, it's I just I've never seen that before

That's what they're pumping out. They're pumping up this ai tech. Yeah

But that's yeah, who knows I like it. I think it's a really good on the radar. That's not yeah

Well done for me. Yeah, so hopefully we do have video that actually recorded, but we'll have audio at least

um

Should we go get bowie then should you bowie before this?

If this is gonna shut down. Yeah, let's go get bowie

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Here he is in the front seat Bo Allen familiar familiar with this podcast

Just having a look at his chopped chopped 80 series

Which is unbelievable. I didn't know I was home belly

Uh, yeah, I got it. Um yesterday. I vote spin at G turbo for a bit. So yeah, so talk to us about what's going on there

Because part of the reason that we're doing this is one jade and I like we're doing a podcast in a car

We can't just sit in that whole time and talk to each other

And two is I told jaden that the

80s in

the shop

And I thought maybe you can't get around so we'll pick you up and go for a drive

But it's there. Yeah, you need anywhere to

Come through mate come through. Yeah wait wave and then just give him away. If he waive he'll waive. Yeah. Yeah, good

It's a very good boys. Well done

Um, yeah, well, I picked it up from G turbo yesterday. Um

I've got

the hd

Hg h333. I don't know some new turbo I've got on there. Um

And just waiting to get it tuned and in a new fuel pump. So waiting on that

I'll send it back over there and the boys have been good. So

Hopefully get a couple more ponies out of the old girl

Yeah, and that was so the issue like you you sent it in just for the new turbo tune

And then they realized that a fuel pump was no good. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously the

Whatever fuel pumps on it. It's we haven't really

Um stuff around with that one too much. So yeah, uh, she's not

Not up to standard. So yeah, we'll get a new one and um, we'll go from there without the original fuel pumps

Well, we're not sure funny story. Yeah, I don't it looks brand new, but it's definitely not

I think it's been tinkered with by someone other than us and we don't really know what's going on. So yeah, right. Oh, yeah, that's to just

Getting you on I reckon. Yeah, so you run the through because you were you were thinking about selling the old girl

Yeah, why I was talking to the old man about it for a while humming heron. Yeah, um

I just thought now if it's worth a worth a buck

Before it shits the bed, which it won't but

um

Yeah, I'm just a little upgrade and not have to worry about cars, but

I'm only 20 so

What was my advice to you

Never sell it. Yeah, never sell that. Yeah. No, it's a cool car. I do like it. But yeah

Yeah, it was probably looking upgrade, but I've just put a bit more money into it now. So yeah, hang on to it for a little bit longer

Well, we'll we'll put you in this soon and then we'll um

See this might yeah, maybe this will swing. Yeah, but um

So you got newtie boy at home too. We probably should have thrown newtie boy in the car

But we're running out of a little bit of room in here, but he's got the so the boys are riding to it at the moment

Hey, yeah, newtie's put his a bit into his as well. He's just um come back from a

Um a joining or just out of Perth actually, but yeah, he's got new lifts and new tyres

Yeah, some new rooms as well canopy on the back looks good. Yeah, we're top 10. Yep

No, he's got the whole setup

He's looking at doing a bit more like draws and stuff like that as well

So he wants to get hutchy

He's one of our other teammates to help him with the draw system. He was just saying and um, which is cool

Hey, this is nice. It is. This is really nice to draw. It's a little bit the back. There's not a lot of room

Yeah

Kind of taken up a lot of space here. You might be able to see your own balls

Yeah, you're probably right now through that through that gopro, but size doesn't matter

No, it's it's knees are up around your neck

It's kind of um, you've got a bit of go too. Yeah, I still don't feel like if I'm really honest

Like I know we're not here to sell high luxes. I don't feel like it's got as much as the ranger

Go on continue that thought. Well, I just I don't know if it does if still

Driving it as a passenger. It didn't feel agricultural at all, but driving it still does feel a little bit

I'm not sure if that's because I'm used to

All right, oh no

Let's talk about yours, mate. You got the unleash 79 now. We can talk about it. I thought you'd never ask

No, it's I actually got asked today. Is it like how do you find driving it around the city?

And I'll be honest. I was kind of looking I know last week's episode we spoke a bit about like

Not, you know fuel prices and all that going on

Having a run around car or not or downgrading to one car between two people that sort of thing

But I'm half looking at maybe yeah getting a run around a

Proper. Yeah, maybe like the cheapest thing I can find like an e-bike

Maybe I can find cars cheaper than e-bikes. Yeah, you probably can 100% I can but have a look at this boys

I wish you could flip the camera around like rip a day. It is a beautiful day

Bowie's fortunate enough not to live too far from the beach and I thought why don't we go down to the beach

See if we can find bow or missus

Possibly down the water here. Yeah, that's like a PT the young PT

But uh, I do this is this is like driving this around not having to worry about

Shifting or anything like that. I've got I kind of enjoy that aspect of driving

Mine around now, but there's also

This is so comfortable. How do you find the city driving compared to like the big trips?

I feel like city driving is a lot more with a manual like yeah, no doubt. Yeah, I think though like as well Perth is so

Perth is quiet compared to the rest of like

You know if I was driving that around melbourne, I reckon I'd be in trouble

Yeah, like even on a weekend in melbourne. I feel like it's busier than Perth on a weekday

Yeah, probably yeah, so I reckon like the yeah

Perth's probably the best place to be able to do it or Adelaide's probably similar

Darling, but like the other major cities you'd yeah, I don't know if it would be the go if you were living right in the heart of melbourne, but

Yeah, just driving this around like you do

It's easy, isn't it like you're not having to think about too much except looking at the road and

Stopping at a red light. So I know definitely this is quite nice

But I do I do find a little bit. It's a bit a bit luggage. Maybe it's like a little bit

Okay, but it's coming out of the 76. I thought this was very yeah, maybe I'm being maybe I'm very good

A lot the interior interior is good. Oh, it's real nice real nice

So mate, have you been away lately camping fishing? I know the boys are doing a bit. Oh, no, not really

Your car's been in the shop. Yeah, I've just been bunking in with newtsy to be honest. Yeah, just helping him with him

Yeah, sort of had my car away for a while. So yeah, I haven't been doing too much

Got any plans like mid-season boys. I know it's a long way away, but

Yeah, we might actually be going to look at a boat the sarbo. We

So, yeah

Well, newtsy newtsy's onto it

But a couple of other boys might jump in really what sort of art

It's a fiberglass

Like a real old one. Yeah, there's like a 42 stroke on the back just something like

That'll get us out and about yeah

Fix it when it breaks it off

That's that's what's about a couple of the boys aboard a tinny. I know a lot of the boys are by looking at buying boats

So we've got like a lot of our teammates the bow. We obviously for those that haven't probably watched the first one with bow

We um, we played footy together. Yeah, we go dive in a bit more deeper to his 80 series because it's an absolute weapon

But so a lot a lot of the boys like I was saying before

So newts has got kitted out for me now the highlights like a lot of the boys are right into it

And at the moment fishing as well. So like boys are just on a day off or afternoon off. They're just

Jumping in this tinny

I think a few of them went in on it or they're just fishing under the canning bridge

Like they're just going anywhere they can to throw a line in

I reckon we had we had a breakdown as well. I reckon one of the boys got stranded for a bit

Really? Yeah, what happened? Um

Well, I don't know if you're saying like bake some fridge and crossing I didn't didn't they get stranded for like three hours on their tinny

Did they? Yeah. Yeah

Yeah, so I never talking to grassy about it. It was obviously down here bikes, but oh

Yeah, couple hours gone by in the tinny couldn't start it. Oh, no, it was a bit cheery. Was it cheery told us a similar story

Chewy chewy got stuck on a jet ski just out here. I think you're not to call it mate

No, when he was on the potty tortoise or was it in the tin getting um

The boat ran out of fuel

At the mood beach. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's right. It's all like oh, there's worse places to run out of

You pull you can't be out of the mood

Dumb all your fuel was a massive get

We will eat just the whole way past your boat

early trail

No, it's good. I'm loving how much the boys are renewed at the moment. Like it's actually

it's been um

It's good to have something that's safe. I'm doing I'm doing less

Than anyone and I've got I'm apparently hosting a podcast about for driving all the boys are not more than me

Um, should we get bowie in the front seat driving? Yeah, let's do that. Let's pull in here

Out of an 80 series into a 2026 hylux

We've finally convinced you now

We took three minutes down great

Yeah, I don't think you can really be 80 80s. Actually, you know what we spoke about last week bowie

Uh, no, you wouldn't because it's actually not out yet

Yeah

We actually um, we spoke about getting like a podcast car. Yeah podcast car. Yeah, like that. We could

Go back home take yourself back home, mate

um

That we could like take on trips do potties out of like this like

It's the podcast to buy him a daily driver. No, I was happy to put my own money into it

Um, sorry, marley come to try to get out of here. I can't see much coming

You got a few but

You can't boot it in the hylux. I mean, I said it was a little bit sluggish. I'd probably was being a bit harsh

Yeah, good. Yeah, clear

Sweet as

The steering is nice. I'll go it is nice. Hey the steering is the first thing that stands out. Sure

Can't really boot it along here. It's the speed limit. So yeah slow

Electronic power steering there bowie

Yeah, I wouldn't know what that is

Yeah, I think for all of us coming out of our cars and driving this is like

Yours would be nice wouldn't it Doug? Oh mine's yeah, mine's pretty good. Uh, just like it's not like this. Yeah

So what is this? This is brand spanker. Is it brand? How many k's has it done? Has it got that there?

Um

Yeah, three seven eight seven there brand

It's not I say

Comfy. Yeah. No it is. No, it's cool. Plenty of room in the front. Anyway. Yeah

Struggling back there. That's huge for you

Yeah, 100%

You know best part about like being in my car and taking soli for a drive, but so he's obviously back passenger side. Yeah

Like if I need to reach back to grab his dummy

Yeah, I'm close enough. It's so close. Yep. Whereas in Laurence car. She drives like she's in a Tiguan Volkswagen

It's so far away. There's so much space in it in the back seats that we can't reach from the driver seat

Never would have thought space in the back would be a negative, but you put it like that

Yeah, well, it's not like it's gonna be much better for when he's a bit older, but um

But yeah, it's funny because in the in the land cruise of this massive car. It's like he's like right on top. Yeah

It's really funny. How's the comfort in the 80 series?

Yeah, it's pretty good. Um, obviously it's like 30 odd years old. So uh

No, the drivers one when you slide in and out of them for 20 years

They the foam like dies on the side. So we got it like reshaped and refoamed. So they're all pretty comfy

Um, it's pretty loud, but no it is comfy

I think I've molded the seats to what I want. So

Have you got the questions? Yes, let's get them up questions. Bowie. We put up a little story and we got a got a few in mostly from

Yeah

Um, are you good with a tattoo gun?

Yes, talk to me about this and yeah, I did one today actually. Did you on newt? Yeah, no, I wouldn't be on me

Um, yeah, what? Yeah, go through that. What are we talking about? What you've got a tattoo gun?

Yeah, so we've got a tattoo tattoo gun of Teemu

All of 30 bucks, but it's probably done nearly 10 tattoos now. Um,

I don't know. I've got a couple up on my tiktok, but Jadon's um, Jadon's looking for some

Fresh some fresh ink. Yeah, we're pretty booked up, but I mean pretty booked up. Yeah, I'll fit you in

Um

No, yeah, we just oh, we get a bit bored sometimes and

I don't know take some on a footy of it. Just sounds like a fun house

Set up the studio and absolute pad and go ham on the on the tattoo gun all the fourbies out of the front and tattoo on each other

Yeah, good

What um, what tattoo would you give dango?

79 series on the ankle

It's

Brendan Burke's favorite beer to take camping

Oh

You can answer this. Yeah, I'm not I'm honestly not huge on beer. Um pro athlete any any more

Well, yeah, I don't know probably

Jim van, so there you go cut all these questions. I love it. Just beep out everything every answer

Yeah, Jim, very funny as

I've been stitched up with these questions. That's pretty funny. Why me too

What walk us through the thoughts on the chopped 80 series whose idea was it originally?

Um yours or your old man?

Uh, well, yeah, we didn't chop it. Um

But it all started, um

When we're doing the cray pots

The old man's 200 was in for a service and we needed obviously we're close friends with the previous owner. So

Um, we borrowed it to tow the boat down each morning to the pots and I just sort of

I don't know fell in love with it there. I just always like like going in it. I don't know. It was it was old

It was good. I just

Yeah, I like those sort of old looking cars and sort of just grew from there and when I heard it was sort of up for grabs

I was

Hold on it. So

beautiful

Yeah

Another one on the 80 series from gav. What would you do differently if you started the build again today from scratch?

Um good question

Let's say you've got it chopped

Yeah, you've bought it chopped and then you bought it not chopped. Would you chop it again?

Um, I actually wouldn't mind the the wag inside of it. I think eventually I'll probably put

A canopy on the back so

Um, I actually know best of both worlds, but

Maybe keep the wagon

Could you do anything differently for like you've obviously got it chopped you bought a chop?

Is there anything on the build that you do differently?

Oh

Probably not differently. I think we did it pretty well. I just took our time

But yeah, maybe a canopy on the cards, but that might be a little addition. Yeah, cool

Um

You went custom on a lot of that stuff didn't you like you and your old man? Yeah, well, obviously old man's

by trades and mechanics, so

Yeah, he's helped me out with a lot of that

Teach me along the way, but

um, like all the labor and stuff was basically done at home and

I'm just tinkered with it. Obviously there was stuff we sent it the shops to do but

Yeah, probably saved a lot of time and money doing it ourselves

So what do you where do you draw the line between like custom fabbing stuff custom making stuff and then buying stuff off the shelf?

Uh, well, like for example, like the hood lining that was all pretty cooked. So

Um, obviously like dad knew somebody that did like hood linings and stuff

So that he did that but then sort of the door cards. I went around to um, some like

What do you call them like scrappy like other joints and sort of ripped apart another 80 and got some door cards and

Um molded the two and got the best out of both. So like I did that myself, but yeah, I wouldn't attack a hood lining

It'll probably end up just falling down

Fair um

In any gear that surprised you

Better or worse

Um, I've got west coast suspension. Oh, we can't say that. Can we? No, you can. Yeah, I can. Yeah, I've got west coast suspension

In the car and that's sort of that was like the cheaper option, but I've had no issues with that. That's um, it's actually been great. So

still a comfy ride and um

Yeah, that's done me really well actually

Lee, uh

Nathan, what's the

Nah, it's not different Nathan. Uh, what's the bucket list trip that you haven't ticked off yet?

And what's stopping you from going on it? I need I need a

Like a better camping setup. Obviously it's set up right now just to sort of be a car

And and get me from a to b but I need sort of some power in the back either like a canopy or

Some fridge set up just in the back. Um, but once I do get that set up in the near future. Um, anyway, really I've to be honest

I haven't really

um

Explored that much. So I was pretty interested in the trip you did Doug, but yeah, um, that's pretty hardcore. You'd need a good crew to go

so

You anything really where you've grown up. You've been pretty spoiled for choice having you like locally just to go

Hit the dunes. Yeah, we used to ways to not walk hills and that it's like half an hour from home

So yeah, like yeah, you just straight into it. Yeah, basically. Yeah, no, the beach is good. Love the beach, but

Beach over bush

Oh, well, yeah, it's a good question. Um

I don't know

Either or I reckon if you found a nice bush camp like next to a river. Yeah a little water. Yeah, that'd be nice

I like that too. Yep. Yeah, great

This one from Nathan this time. It is the right Nathan. Is there a modern four-wheel drive?

You'd consider switching to big ups or see

Yeah, probably a 79

Or a 200 and obviously pretty sought after cars, but I just love them. Obviously they've still got I'd still go for the v8 option

So, yeah, good motors still a still a cruiser

obviously ones are you and ones are

A wagon so you'd weigh that up and I don't know figure out what you

What your best suit was but probably one of them too. I reckon your setup's wicked dug. That's that's cool

And the old man obviously out of 200 so we still have 200 familiar to that. Yeah, no, they're good cars

um liable so I saw a

Double dump like exhaust 200 before the massive kenworth like

Being here and it was like it was like, yeah, it was pretty nice sounded unreal

And last one as we pull into the driveway from as a do you think the full driving community is getting too obsessed with

Tech and comfort or is that just the natural progression?

Oh

um

I don't know. What do you reckon? I'll switch that one to you

Is that on yep, I'll put the handbrake on yeah

I don't think we're getting too obsessed. Well, I just spoke about it. This is the natural progression

I'd say I'll just spoke about an ai

Yeah, full drive system

Why well, I as like I was researching this morning

There's a full drive system. They're building in china in this car called a Geely

um

Yeah, battleship 700 or something like that

There's the answer

Um, no, it's like it's like a so the car will read the terrain that you're in and adjust your like

drivability to what it needs so like

Drive to the wheels suspension height

um

Whether it's ev powered or petrol powered what it needs at the time like all of that

Yeah, that's that's extreme that yeah, that's it's more of a they reckon

It's actually in production at the moment, but oh, I've got to be foot in the pedal. I reckon

In my mind does there are yeah, I'm the same

I think we're all of a grants that

We're probably love the

Keep it simple. Yeah, but I think the community is a whole. I reckon is

Enjoying the tech side, which I think needs to be embraced to a degree as well

Yeah, I think there's new school for drivers who enjoy the tech and having the comforts and stuff

and then there's old school for drivers who just enjoy having

Wind up windows and just having the accelerator in front of you. Yeah. Yeah

Option but you can't you can't like I definitely prefer that I wouldn't

I wouldn't do the gun barrel with this much technology. I can't even do a traction control. Yeah, like

It's pretty nice. No, it's nice for comfort and all that. I'll do the gun ball and I don't know mate like

Now that I've done it all the tech stuff

I don't know if all the felt confident doing it the first time in in one of these or even my ranger

Yeah, but I reckon now that I've done it. I think you could

Oh

We're here anyway. Thanks, Bowie. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming for a drive having a little run in the highlights. Thanks for picking me up

No worries. Save me a couple dollars

Yeah, thanks to ground. I won't be doing it tomorrow. All right, so we dropped Bowie off Bowie's done

Bowie's down in Bowie down to the beach. That was nice. That was nice. It's a beautiful day in WA for um for that

Yeah, you couldn't um very nice need a more relaxed boat than Bowie. I don't reckon. He is so chill

So chill. Such a good man. Yeah, um each time I've he's time. I've seen him out. It's he's just

Chatting about forward driving with him and how his car's going and all that and it's just it's perfect

Good amount of knowledge for like a 20 year old a on you can't believe he's 20. Yeah, you forget

Um, but no shout out to shout out to Bowie and yourself for jumping on today and making the time

I know it's your day off. No, so for you boys to do that. That's that's wicked. Oh, it was nice. Now, um

I want to just readdress what I've said before about this band of its luggage

We actually were in zones where I probably couldn't speed up. Yeah too much. Uh, gave it a little kick just in one of the back streets then

It's not too bad

It's pretty it's pretty decent. Yeah, you did say like we're off the lights here

Like it's it's actually there if you put your foot down it goes. It's there. Yeah, um, I was probably driving a little bit

Of course, which is which is fine too, but I reckon I've probably sold a bit short and didn't actually give it a crack. So yeah, um

It's yeah, it's better than what I thought. No, it's good

It's only a little like 2.8 liter four cylinder like it's not a massive engine. Is it so like you're expecting a little bit of

Give from Ronny. Ronny loves the Prado the Prado and the 76. Yeah, um, true

Or maybe a bit of different gearing, but it's good. Yeah, it's actually quite nice and I I think it's comfortable

Um, I like it and I think this the grounded one looks sick. So yeah, I agree. Um, and it's got yeah

New wheels new tires. Yeah suspension on it. I'll probably a two inch. I don't know exactly what suspension is. Yeah, I think it's yeah

I think it's really standard two inch standard. Yeah, so it's a car. It looked like a tough dog suspension to me

It's got some yellow down there a bit of yellow and yeah, but I didn't have a good look at it

Yeah, two inch two inch lifts. I would say maybe a three

Yeah, so it's it's got a few upgrades on it

Yeah, 17 inch wheels on 265 the tires look more aggressive than what

The 265 usually does. They're very aggressive. I didn't actually check the brand of tire that they're running there, but um

It's it yeah, nice car. I've actually enjoyed driving this around so

um

Would I be in the market for one?

probably not but I'm also

very

You'd be happy. You'd be happy as Larry driving this round. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I was saying before with

Bolly was just the technology. I don't I don't feel comfortable with all this

Technology I had to think there's a lot that can go wrong, especially those corrugations on the gun barrel. I think

What it did to our cars and Ronnie's grenadier

Sending all those sensors on and stuff. I don't I'm not a huge

There's a bit more to play with you in there fanning of that but

There you would make this

You would send this across the gun barrel. No worries. I think it's fine and it's quite simple

Like when you think about it, it is pretty simple. It is it's there's not a whole lot down here

There's a dial for your mode select. So that we're not going to play around with that. Well, we're moving right now

Yeah, you've got different things, but it's um

I think it would be simple enough

so

I agree the the four-wheel drive button is an interesting one. Yeah, it's not really a button

It's a roller to go from too high to four high to push it in and go to four low

Which we won't do. No, it's a bit driving

But that's I've not seen a not seen a button like that before. Yeah

Anyway, it's the gear stick

You know the four-wheel drive gear stick and you go from

Those I like those

Well, we need this. Yeah, I do

I'll tell you what though this when you when you are like again, I'm speaking about my ranger

That's okay. I've had experience in when you're driving at the right speed and you just

You know, you can click from too high

To four high. It's just a simple turn of a dial or a click down this little roller

It's pretty nice. That is that is pretty nice. I can't it's pretty nice. I can't hate on that

Yeah, I mean you can do it still in the in the manual. Obviously you just

You clutch it and off you go, but we lost that again. Yeah lost it completely. That's all right. I know we're still there

How does um, how does it compare to the ranger?

Can you compare it?

Yeah, I mean you have to rangers and highlights compared each and every day. Yeah. Well, you've now you've

You've also owned a higher ranger and now my range it was 10 years or nine years older than this

Yes, so they have come along too. Um

This is comfortable feels really sturdy stable the steering is really nice. That's quite light

Which the ranger has always had so

I'm a I'm a ranger fan

Yeah, I'm a ranger fan. So that's just me but this is a great car

You can you can tell yeah, like to just to drive this on road

We're obviously not off-roading, but this is it's a very nice car

But those brand new rangers that that screen they're all they're all offering a similar thing

The thing about the ranger that I like is that they've gone to

um

A six-cylinder engine

Um, so I think you know, they're a heavier car because of the bigger engine, but um

I like that about them

So that that's yeah three-liter six-cylinder

And I like that. So yeah, that's me. Um

But yeah, this is bloody perfect. It is like oh probably

Said it was a little bit safe at the start, but it's it's not it's it's fine. It's this car

Again, like for a lot of us

We're not on the road full-time to drive this around where we are now through the suburbs and city streets and yeah

Want to take it off-road on a weekend? You couldn't go wrong

No, you can't you can't this is a

It's a great modern you yeah, I would say it's a great modern you and there's a reason they're so popular

Yeah, yeah, so I think maybe we might have to lie. I was powering off again

Sorry about the video and this one guys

Maybe we'll lay her in the shots of the car

Stuff in

Yeah, sorry about that. We are

Running a go pro and it is

Very very hot here. Is that usually happen?

Hey, that usually happen with the go pro gets hot. Yeah, it gets real hot and starts to shut down. Yeah

Yeah

Go on give us a run around

Just thought I have a little play get a brand new Hilux, you know, yeah, give us a quick run around of your of your Hilux

Yeah, so we've got uh, we've got the grounded Hilux

2026 it's the

48 bolt hybrid

motor so

ground have been

kind enough to lend us

The Hilux today just have a little run around we picked up Bowie had a chat did a podcast out of it

Um, it's a it's a real nice car. I mean, it's um, you know, it's it's a modern new Hilux got everything you could want inside

All the comforts, but a walk around and have done with it is it's just a nice

It's an SR5 model, but they've thrown some wheels and tyres on it. Um, got the roller on top

It's all pretty clean and neat

But with a little bit of that stuff that we spoke about being the perfect probably weekender

Whilst you're driving it around the city for your for your daily drive, but um

So basically what they have done is this is the roller I was chatting about. Um, it's from

Roller cover the hsp youth lids

Hello snack pack youth lids

interesting

But this is really not like so you can how do you do it off the key?

Double tap the unlock double tap the unlock button

And away it goes so

That's pretty nifty. I like that. Um, I think this is a pretty good option for

A weekender like that keeps your gear nice and dry. It's got this built-in light when it's pulled back for for night time

Um, but it's it's pretty practical. I mean you you're not putting a lot of stuff on top

You could put a rack on here to utilize the space up above there, but obviously for grounded. It's a company car

Um, it's probably not used for camping. So

But you sort of got a few few options there. It's got the buttons up here as well. So I can shut it

Just off here

I think what are the car lock actually?

There we go

Open the car back up a little work. Um

I like this similar to the ranger this obviously not been put in

And I don't know if this comes with the sr or the sr5, but the tub step is um, I think that's just a practical feature

It comes on the hylux

So they've got fuel rims. They're 17 inch rims the wheels

And the tire they've gone road venture

Rt's so they're

265s

They look aggressive but they look quite aggressive for for what they are

It's not overly big pretty standard, but it looks it really goes well, especially with the black flares

That that is nice. I like the look of that

Side step standard. Obviously you got your grounded branding

And then this is the part that I was really skeptical about up the front is

This this front end. I didn't know if I was sold on it

When I when I first saw these hyluxes come out

I don't know if it's the tires

And uh, and the rims that are making this look better to me

But I am I've come around to that front, especially from that angle that you see and right now

I reckon that it looks pretty sharp. It looks good. It looks sort of half aggressive

Without being overs

We're chatting with the boys if you're going to put a bull bar on this

Does all of this come off?

Because that's quite deep. It is deep

So you you'd be pulling off quite a bit there, but I actually really like the look of it as it is

I mean like I said, it's a grounded company car for what it is doing a lot of its work around here

I don't think you need I I wouldn't put a bar on this

I really like the look of that and then the front grill is the other part. I was skeptical on

And I don't know what it is about this one if there's I don't know if there's a different trim or what it is, but I quite like

how that comes up so

Yeah, I mean it's a

yeah

Brand new hylux 26 has done 3000 kilometers. We've taken it for a drive. It's got enough go. It's comfortable

all the tech you could want

Nice big screen in the middle, which I think is what a lot of people are wanting these days

Throw a set of tires on it a lift. It's got a two inch lift. We're not too sure about what's underneath it

But we're shooting it's a two inch lift and I think it's come up a real treat. So

appreciate it grounded for um for letting us to car for a day and run to the podcast out of it and

I don't mind the idea of a

Of a rolling podcast. No rolling podcast is might be the way to go might be uh

Oh

You big on it now, aren't you? I'm big

Anyway, the ground of the hylux

I've been a pleasure to drive thanks to grounded for um for giving it to us to to lend and and drive around for a little while

I'll get a feel for it. We've been chatting about it. Never sat in one. So that's perfect. Um,

But I'm yeah, I think it's a great car

this looks nice in the ground vehicle and um

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it might to be honest. Yeah, I've been impressed with it so far. It's it's very similar to driving ronnie's prado the 250

Uh, and also he's 76. Yeah feels very similar. Yeah, as it should they're both new Toyota cars. Yeah, um

But nothing too much tech for you. Nothing bad. Nothing bad. But no, look, it's just because I'm used to the 76, right?

I've got roll down windows. I don't have central locking. I don't have a lot of stuff going on

but

Yeah, coming into this is a bit different. Yeah, but I don't mind the tech like obviously tech is good as long as it holds up and it doesn't

Like that tech is not holding up. That tech's not holding up. But as long as it as long as it lasts and

Doesn't hinder your full driving or anything like that then you know, I'm happy with tech. It's magic. I think it's great

Like it's comfortable

The space in the back is what I don't like about utes. Yeah

That's any ute though. It is any ute. It's every ute. So

Yeah, other than that, I think I think it's been fun driving it around

48 volt is that is that something that's going to last or is that something that's on its way out?

Obviously we've got the electric highlights coming up towards the end of 26 or

Into 27 depending on where you are

But yeah, it'll be interesting to see what that one's like like like we said at the start

This is just a facelift

Highlights basically it's a yeah, there's not much that's different to any other high luck. So

Tell you what the brakes feel nice. It's just a good car. Press it in harder

Oh, now we're moving again. Apologies, but we it just breaks. No, it does. It does break nice. Yeah, it does

It does

Anyway, thanks grounded wrap up. Thank you. Thanks grounded. Thanks dago. Thanks bow. Thanks tire power. Thanks tough dog

Um, see you guys next week. Hooroo. Cheers

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