From a pious Sunday morning, fast forward to a controversial Tuesday noon and still galloping, we have been within the space of 48 hours, inundated with media reports whether audio, video or online of exactly how a brand new Toyota V8 Land Cruiser could lose its two front tyres as easily as an octogenarian could lose his teeth. Conspiracies about Dr. Bawumia's Toyota V8 Land Cruiser have gone viral. Its dependability is at the heart of Sir John’s claim and this same dependability is the crux of Hon Agalga’s counter-claim that a V8 is not the pope of automobiles. So is the V8 such as toothless bull dog or a drugged security service agent as Sir John is conjecturing? Myjoyonline finds out from Tom Ford, a motoring journalist and contributing Editor of Top Gear Magazine. The V8–The UN’s automobile sweetheart You see, the United Nations have bought some 12,000 Toyota Land Cruisers over the years, and you'll invariably see one on any Middle-East crisis newscast, storming cheerfully down a desert track or prowling through a village Swiss-cheesed with mortar fire.They get painted Daz white, hammered to hell and back, and still the UN has an insatiable passion for this full-size SUV from Toyota. Why? Because they never break; there's a reason why the outback is littered with the carcasses of old Land Rovers and not broken Toyotas. There's a reason why, every time you trek to some inaccessible part of the world using helicopters and specialist equipment, you will arrive to find a family having a picnic on the tailgate of their 1980s Land Cruiser. It's true. Travel to the Earth's core and there will be a fossilized Land Cruiser down there somewhere. Put some diesel in it, slap on a new battery and it'll probably start. That reputation is pure gold. It comes from a long history - the first Land Cruiser was in 1954, and it was pretty much the car that Toyota itself was founded on. Luckily, that proud heritage is kept right on in the new car, because when it comes to out-and-out reliability, off-road ability and manufacturing quality, the Land Cruiser is seriously good.