Unkillable Toyota Hilux Laughs At This Massive Sinkhole

It's not like you can see it coming, and it just appears seemingly all of a sudden, taking out whatever is above it. Just this week, a huge one opened up in Thailand. Somehow, though, the luckiest Toyota in the world seemed to escape it relatively unscathed.

Clinging On For Dear Life
According to the Associated Press, the sinkhole opened up on a street in Bangkok next to a hospital and a police station. Despite the enormity of the hole, the news outlet reported that no one was killed or hurt, and people in the surrounding buildings were evacuated safely. Reuters reported that the sinkhole was a whopping 164 feet deep, and the size of the hole at the top was nearly 10,000 square feet in area and may have been related to train tunnel construction.

Right in the middle of the whole hole was a single, silver, extended-cab Toyota Hilux. Watching video footage of the hole, you can see that the ground falls away around it. It appears there was some sort of concrete support structure underneath that resisted the collapse, and the truck somehow was parked perfectly on that protective perch. It's sort of the opposite of some sinkhole incidents we've seen in the past, where a hole perfectly swallows a single car, and nothing else. Hilux fans can also add this to the list of things a Hilux can survive, in addition to the abuse the Top Gear crew famously heaped upon a much older model years ago. That episode included such torturous conditions as crashing into various things and even being left to be submerged in the ocean after being tied to a pole on a beach. Amazingly, the thing still fired up after being dried out.

This Still Isn't The Craziest Blend Of Sinkholes And Cars
We're not sure if any sinkhole story will ever top that of the one at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. More than a decade ago, a hole opened up right in the middle of the big yellow dome-shaped part of the museum. It was entirely contained in that section, and it took eight historic Corvettes down 40 feet. Among them was the one millionth Corvette built, and a 2009 Corvette C6 ZR1 prototype nicknamed "Blue Devil." Damage ranged from very minor to pretty disastrous, depending on where the vehicles were. The Blue Devil actually suffered hardly any damage and was even driven out of the building once it had been lifted out of the hole. Since then, the museum has mostly closed up the hole, and some of the cars have been restored. Some have still been in a damaged state. For a while last year, the museum had an exhibit showing part of the hole, as well as the cars in both repaired and damaged condition.