Toyota said on Thursday it was ready to help the U.S. investigate how the Islamic State group was able to obtain so many of its notoriously rugged trucks. The Japanese manufacturer responded after an ABC News report on Wednesday said U.S. Treasury Department counterterrorism officials had been in contact with the auto giant about the matter. Fleets of Toyota trucks are a common feature of IS propaganda videos from Syria, Iraq and Libya – many of them have been converted into fast-moving heavy gun platforms, known as “technicals.” “We support the U.S. Treasury Department’s broader investigation into international supply chains and the flow of capital and goods in the Middle East,” Toyota said in a statement. “Toyota has a strict policy of not selling vehicles to potential buyers who could use or convert them for paramilitary or terrorist activities,” it said. Toyota’s pick-up trucks – as well as similar vehicles from Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Isuzu – have long been favored by numerous militias, insurgents and armies around the world due to their affordability, adaptability and durability. The final stages of a conflict between Libya and Chad in the late 1980s are often referred to as the “Toyota War” because Chadian soldiers achieved military success thanks to the fast pickups. Inspired by their reputation as a rugged pickup, the BBC show Top Gear once attempted to destroy a Toyota pickup by setting it on fire, throwing a wrecking ball at it and even placing it on the roof of a building, which was then blown up. Each time, mechanics with a simple set of tools managed to get the battered SUV running again. The Islamic State group, which has captured vast amounts of military equipment during its rise – much of it U.S. military equipment left behind by fleeing Iraqi allies – boasts of large numbers of pickup trucks in its videos. “ISIS has used these vehicles for military activities, terrorist activities and the like,” Mark Wallace, a former U.S. ambassador who now heads a counterterrorism project, told ABC News. “In almost every ISIS video, there is a fleet – a convoy of Toyota vehicles, and that is a big concern for us,” he added. The same report quoted Iraqi officials as saying they feared new pickup trucks were being smuggled into ISIS territory from neighboring countries. In its statement, Toyota said it had put in place strict “procedures and contractual obligations” to prevent the vehicles from falling into the wrong hands. “However, it is not possible for any automaker to control indirect or illegal channels through which our vehicles could be misused, stolen or resold by unrelated third parties,” the statement continued.