Toyota Hilux Dropped From Building
By the Editorial Staff
March 16, 2026
Can a car survive a 240ft drop from a collapsing building? The Toyota Hilux did! 13 years ago, the legendary Top Gear trio-James, Jeremy, and Richard. We wanted to settle the question once and for all: how indestructible is a Toyota Hilux? After planning for years, we lifted the truck by helicopter and dropped it from nearly two miles up. The.
Before the big drop, the Hilux is dropped from 500 feet. The hard landing bends the truck out of shape, damaging the frame. Well, that's why he reminds us of that one time when the TG crew dropped a Hilux from a 200-foot-tall building (that's around 60 meters) and promises to dial up the stakes a few hundred times.
The Toyota Hilux has garnered a reputation, particularly thanks to Top Gear, as arguably the toughest truck to ever exist. In their episode on it, they dropped it from a height of 200 ft (61 m. Toyota fans must be loving YouTuber WhistlinDiesel's video series putting the Hilux's durability to the test.
Top Gear famously strapped one of these pickups to the top of a 23-storey building slated for demolition, which in turn inspired the YouTuber to track down the "nicest" one he could find in the states and put it through his own rigorous testing program, WhistlinDiesel. The WhislinDiesel YouTubers needed something to generate views so they opted for dropping a Toyota HiLux from 10,000 ft. The results will surprise you.
It flattens to a pancake. Top Gear famously used a Toyota Hilux pickup to show its incredible strength against abuse. It was even placed on top of a 200-foot tall building as it was being dismantled.
WhistlinDiesel has been testing the truck and eventually dropped it from 10,000 feet. It's. From tackling near vertical hills in Moab Utah to dropping it from 10,000 feet in the air, Whistlin Diesel put the Toyota Hilux to the ultimate durability test.
Burned it, crashed it into various objects including a tree, hit it with a wrecking ball, dropped a camper on it and THEN dropped it with the building. TG How to kill a Hilux.