Our AU is 20 years old this year and is still our daily drive. It is going strong with 473000 km on the clock. We have only ever replaced the alternator on it! Love it.

I have had 2 AUs. 1) 465 000 km and only got rid of it as the transmission began slipping. 2) Currently 340 000 km and still drives beautifully and tight.

This is what Aussie top gear should have been

Psychologist: Australian whistlindiesel isn't real, he can't hurt you.. Australian whistlindiesel:

The au is the best car ever produced in aus. Nothing can change my mind

I love my AUs. My babies are a '91 EB and a 2001 AUII. They are my toys, tow vehicles, and daily drive.

We need Whistlin diesel to get one to do a proper test haha 😂

I've pulled a couple of hiluxs out with an au

At the end was awesome 👌 I didn't that in my au marlin ute whenever I went camping or any chance I could. It was a beast 💪 I'm a carpenter and used it as it was and it went places it probably shouldn't of but the look on the guy's face when he pulls up in his flash 4x4 and hear I am in my 2001 red, faded red au ut with mud flaps dragging on the road from side to side and a bazillion lights on it I just loved it but unfortunately a small accident and apparently it wasn't worth fixing and the wife was happy to see it gone 😭. So was I. Now I got a 4x4 nav d40 dual cab. Fun but not an au. But got an fg xr6 but it no au 😔 🤣 just saying the au is tuff as nuts

I remember how hated these were in 98 when they first came out. Such a shame.

You’re going places mate keep up the work

The cartel approves of the au

I got a BA xr6 ute. Tough as nails and very well put together.

Gold video mate.

Very informative test, thank you

I have owned a variety of AU models and B series over the years and completely rebuilt 1 AU from ground up because I could best highway cruiser use bugger all fuel reliable powerful mods can be done to the old 4.0L Intech SOHC that only wet dreams are made of much like its brother the barra. Yes in case your engine spills its guts of coolant it will go to limp home mode shutting cyls down to keep you just going but when it happens its like mega misfire happened to me once on a 42+ degree here in Adelaide going up a long uphill freeway drive after I fixed the of all things a heater hose new coolant and never a problem since.

I guess this car is like ur guys version of the ford crown victoria. We get the crown vic u guys get that. Both are deadly reliable and used by police, rwd offered in many trim levels and packages and good at everything. Ive always wanted a v8 falcon.. now i want one even more

Go the AU.....

$ 4500 no low balls i know what i have. HAHA Good vidoes sending the falcon off to heaven the fun way/ Sad to see it trashed BUT eh. keep it up :)

It's nice to see you test out an au but man you could have put some different front wheels on it 😂 they look like nice ass wheels

good shit boi

A yorak hunt moment

I wish we got cool cars like that in the US. We get the cheapest watered down versions of everything.

Do the tow test, AU Falcon V 2wd Hilux, chained towbar to towbar

3:31 thats just how i close my au bonnet normally

I predict 10k subs in one month😗

My father had a fleet of AU's as taxis

i own all the aus sedan wagon ute get amongst it

I don't know who's more cooked The car or the driver

I miss the days when they didn't enjoy recognition and were used sensibly. You know, like having a filter when driving though dust. Why not pour aluminium oxide powder in the intake if you really want to murder it?

Fairlane front wheels? AU is very cool now

What’s the deal with the bright green b series in the back

if the rpm jumped then it jumped because you increased torque, probably not exactly but wheel speed went up about 6% assuming factory torque (354nm (x to doubt)) it would have made 371nm. on a dyno chart for an intech i found online torque actually falls to 338nm at 4000rpm so it wouldnt have been producing more horsepower than limiter bashing first. however it did indeed increase wheel speed and rpm by 6% so a safe assumption could be that you produced 5% more torque in the high rev range yeah thats measurable im about to do extractors and exhaust and i might see that

What exhaust system does it have

Can't spell raucous without AU

Austraria whistlindiesel for real.

An Australian doing an American burn out… lucky we know you can do better 👍👍👍

I got one , it’s white , so I call it the pigeon, because it flys like a pigeon

"Doesn't even have a filler." Filter.

franzj presents?

Its only whistlindiesel and top gear that have done tests on hiluxes

blew a rod out the side of an au intech. xr5 au still drifted back to the shed on the key (auto so no fuckery)

Can’t spell Australia without AU.

Surely you could have more fun at the local speedway ??.

1:00 let it hit lomite

Y'all talk funny

In 1987 I had a hk holden that would outlast this thing no Worries. I paddock bashed that thing for years. The 186 was so sludged up it couldn’t die

A hiluxs would run that au over mate

That amount of Ks on an AU is nothing

lumpy as

AU Xr8 past owner, 3 diffs in it, under warranty, I I did nothing bad to make it need 3….. ha ha ha

They keep going because the rotors are shit on them thats how they don;t ever stop🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Take it through one river crossing and it’ll be dead! Hilux is still tougher because they aren’t scared of puddles!

Destroying a good car , just to prove what most people , even non ford fans already know , there near indestructable.

Set up. Gay as