Jeremy Clarkson dropped a caravan on a Toyota Hilux from 10ft up and set it on fire, it shockingly still started

To see if a Toyota Hilux is truly indestructible, Jeremy Clarkson dropped a caravan on one from a crane and set it on fire, and it shockingly still started.

The stunt was part of one of Top Gear’s most extreme durability tests ever filmed, and the cockroach of the truck world persisted.

The team pushed the pickup through escalating experiments of destruction to see if anything could finally kill it.

Each attempt on the pickup’s life made the Hilux look closer to complete destruction, yet it kept coming back – it faced fire, water – and even an explosion.

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The Toyota Hilux is the cockroach of the pickup world

To see if the Toyota Hilux is truly the most indestructible of all the cars, as it seems to be, the Top Gear guys decided to try to completely destroy it back in 2003.

In a series of almost biblical plagues on the poor pickup, Jeremy Clarkson really went out of his way to finish off the Hilux.

Clarkson began by driving it into the sea and leaving it there, as well as smashing it through a shed, and yet it persisted.

Then he followed up by hoisting a caravan 10 feet up in the air on a crane and dropping it straight onto the Hilux.

The roof caved in, the chassis completely buckled, and the truck appeared to be a total loss.

But when the Top Gear host brushed off the debris and turned the key, the Hilux actually came back to life, shocking everyone on set.

Then came the fire test when Jeremy Clarkson soaked the pickup in flammable fuel and set it fully on fire, letting flames burn up through the paintwork, interior, and wiring until it was nothing but a scorched shell.

Once the fire burned itself out, he opened the door, sat down inside it, turned the ignition, and the Hilux started again without any problems.

Jeremy Clarkson dropped a caravan on a Toyota Hilux and set it on fire

Only after surviving the fire did the Top Gear team push the poor pickup to the extreme.

They placed the battered Hilux on top of a 23-storey tower block in East London, a building packed with explosives, ready for a scheduled demolition.

When the charges detonated, the entire structure collapsed in seconds, taking the Hilux down with it, along with thousands of tons of concrete.

Once the dust cleared, the crew dug through the rubble, found the truck, and tried the ignition one more time, and incredibly, it still ran.

By the end, the Hilux was barely recognizable even as a truck, but it remained alive.

Jeremy Clarkson called it ‘unkillable’, and after everything they threw at it, it’s impossible to argue.

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