HOOKED ’N’HUNTED

Applying a traditional spin on a new Hilux makes this N80 an adventure-raiding machine.

WORDS AND PHOTOS DAN EVERETT

“I KNOW WHAT HILUXES ARE LIKE, AND I KNEW I COULD MAKE MINE DIFFERENT” LIKE it or not, modern 4x4s are often built for show, not go. Usable lift, grippy tyres and bar work are sometimes put on the back burner for 10-inch-lifted rigs on 20-inch wheels that won’t see terrain tougher than the Bunnings carpark on a Saturday morning. This Hilux, however, is anything but. A keen fisho and part-time hunter from Sydney’s northern beaches, Joe Emmerton needed a rig that’d not only lug around a near-two-tonne boat, but would get him beyond the black stump to top secret hunting spots with enough ability left up its sleeve to bounce through gnarly rock-laden tracks on the days in-between. No small ask, but Joe had a plan. With the new N80 Hilux…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2017

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