So, if the American Left can sue gun manufacturers because a lunatic misused their product, then surely Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi should be sitting in the same dock, right? After all, the Islamic State didn’t cruise into Mosul in Teslas. They rolled in behind a Toyota Hilux convoy that looked like a Jiffy Lube parade gone wrong — turbo-diesel workhorses loaded with heavy machine guns and rocket pods.
Let’s be consistent. If a company can be blamed for “making a thing that might cause harm,” then every hammer maker, rope manufacturer, and deep-fryer is living on borrowed time. The Hilux is reliable, repairable, and apparently the preferred vehicle of every warlord from Raqqa to the Sahara. That’s not a design flaw; that’s a five-star review in the Middle East version of Consumer Reports.
By current American logic, Toyota is basically a state sponsor of terror. They built a truck that’s too good at its job. It starts every time. It hauls a goat, a family, or a ZU-23 cannon with equal ease. Meanwhile, our own bureaucrats will sue a U.S. firearms company because some idiot broke the law — but ignore the global jihad parade of “technicals” rolling straight out of Japanese factories.
If we’re honest, suing Toyota for ISIS is about as intelligent as suing Chevrolet for every drunk driver. But it exposes the hypocrisy of our modern legal crusades. In America, the weapon isn’t the problem — unless it’s politically useful to pretend it is.
The truth? The Hilux isn’t the villain. Bureaucracy is. The same governments that buy these trucks for “aid convoys” also lose them to “rebels” faster than Hunter Biden loses laptops. Then the press clutches its pearls and wonders how terrorists got such nice rides. Spoiler: we gave them the keys.
If Congress wants to play courtroom cowboy, they should call in Toyota, Ford, and Isuzu and demand they make their trucks less reliable — you know, to save lives. Because nothing says safety like an unreliable pickup that can’t start in the desert.
Until then, the Hilux remains undefeated: the only product line to outlast four U.S. presidents, two wars, and one global terror franchise.
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But you can’t buy a Toyota Hilux in the United States, precisely because they are too dependable and rugged.
In discussing the subject with family and friends, how often ask where does it end? When do we start suing Budweiser and Jack Daniels for DWI’s? Maybe I should keep my mouth shut, I’m gonna give some lawyer an idea.