Toyota Fail Shows Why Professionals Prefer Jeeps on the Trail
Unlike what happens with this Toyota on the trail, a Jeep Wrangler would have made it to the top, and kept its cool, and beer cooler.
For most people, the Trail Rated badge on any given Jeep might mean something, but they don’t give too much thought to what that could be. For us, though, it means our Jeeps can handle the toughest terrain and deepest of waters with excellent maneuverability, plenty of ground clearance, and amazingly flexible suspension.
In short, the opposite of this tale of woe. Via Reddit’s r/yesyesyesno thread is a video of three guys in their Toyota tackling what should be an easy trail to climb. Since it was posted on r/yesyesyesno, though, it means it was anything but.
The video shows the Toyota running up through the trail to some fairly challenging obstacles at the top. Puffs of blue smoke exit out of the exhaust pipe, no doubt signalling trouble up ahead for the trio and their cooler of beer.
The Toyota makes it to the top of the bumps, but fails to climb over them. The engine that thought it could gives out, along with the brakes and the driver’s ability to shift the manual into a gear that would stop them from back down the trail. The result is a frightning ride backwards through the trail.
The Toyota finally comes to a stop where it began, where the only occupant dumped out of the disastrous descent was the cooler. A Trail Rated Jeep would not have failed here, of course. Considering how each Jeep model undergoes testing at places like Moab and the Rubicon Trail, where trails like this one are nothing compared to the boulders awaiting any and all in said places, any given Jeep would not have only handled this challenge with ease, it would have conquered the whole run with no problems. Let’s hope this trio finds their nearest Jeep dealer soon; a fail like that is a waste of good beer, after all.
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