For Trevor Harvey, honouring a departed mate meant one thing — finding a six-metre-tall Kewpie doll from the Sydney Olympics.

The Toyota HiLux Rugged X is the current flagship, and the off-road version of the ninth-gen range.

As with all HiLuxes, the (1GD-FTV) 2.8-litre common-rail twin-cam four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine lives behind the fancy ...