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The Technical

"The Toyota Hilux is everywhere," says Andrew Exum, a former Army Ranger and now a fellow of the Center for a New American Security. "It is the vehicular equivalent of the AK-47. It is ubiquitous to insurgent warfare. And actually, recently, also counterinsurgent warfare. It kicks the hell out of the Humvee."
The truck even has a war named after it: the so-called “Toyota War” between Libya and Chad in the 1980s was dominated by fighters using the light, mobile Hilux. Indeed, Africa is where the truck got its nickname as a fighting vehicle, "the technical," says counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen.
"When NGOs and the UN first went into Somalia in the 1990s, they got so-called technical assistance grants to hire guards and drivers on the ground. Over time, a "technical" came to mean a vehicle owned by a guard company, and then eventually to mean a Hilux with a heavy weapon mounted on the back."

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/why-rebel-groups-love-the-toyota-hilux.html