[Cannoneer No. 4]

[ken5050]

with apologies to Janis Joplin.....

"Lord won't you buy me, a Mercedes-Benz;
My friends all drives Humvees, I must make amends.."

[RoadTest]

When the Pinzgauer first came out, it had a windshield in the toeboard, for looking at where it would fall when rounding the top of a steep hummock.

[ExcursionGuy84]

"Yikes!!! Look out, 'Scoob; someone's taken over our Mystery Van!!"

[with apologies to Hanna-Barbera & The Cartoon Network]

[Vectorian]

'developed, in the early 1970s, by the Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch (which now has an assembly plant in Britain).'

The article is wrong - SDP don't have a production facility in the UK, a British company called ATL bought the sole production rights in 2000 and set up a factory to build them in the UK. They are now owned by the US defense contractor Stewart & Stevenson.

http://www.pinzgauer.uk.com/default.php?category=top&pageName=History

They are amazing off-road at speed and are able to leave both Land Rover Defenders and Humvees for dead in the rough stuff without slowing down. Check out these videos:

http://www.buypinzgauer.com/videos.htm