Watch some Toyota Mega Cruisers get used for their intended purpose

Japan isn't exactly known for its love of all things off-roading...

Kei cars, drift cars, track cars, wierd cars, fancy technology. Japan is known for lots of things in the car world. Despite Toyota producing some of the most famous and capable off-roaders of all time, though, Japan's car culture isn't exactly known for hardcore offroading.

This means that one of the most unique Toyotas ever built (and seldom exported), the Mega Cruiser, now spends most of its time rotting away in old car yards in Japan... as spotted by vlogger Wasabi Cars.

Just look at this vid, an entire yard of them just rusting away in the rain, it's an off-roading travesty!

Thankfully though, Japan ejects many thousands of used cars a year, and one of the top destinations for all these used vehicles is Russia.

Who better than mad Russians to put the Mega Cruiser through its paces? This vid shows Mega Cruisers scaling icy and muddy rock faces and wading through rivers. They even manage to drown one a bit, but being a Toyota, it lives!

It's worth noting that these Mega Cruisers are the military-spec BDX10 Mega Cruisers, not the much rarer BDX20 Civillian spec ones (of which, reportedly only 146 were built...), but it's still impressive to see a relatively rare truck get used for its originally intended purpose.

The BDX10 could be anything from a troopie to an anti-air battery.

Some readers of our last article on the Mega Cruiser let us know that there's one civillian version sitting in a Motorama showroom in Queensland, although it won't run and it's not for sale. I guess short of going to great lengths to import one you're out of luck...

Is the Mega Cruiser the Holy Grail of Toyota off-roading? Tell us what you think in the comments.