From: Jeff Shultz 

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:36:59 -0500, Steve Ewing wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:47:24 +0000, Adam Flinton
>  wrote:
>
>> The UK assumes an insurgent war & has a range of either low impact
>> vehicles (e.g. the Land Rover is a common sight generally in much of the
>> world) or armoured wheeled vehicles e.g. the Saxon
>>  http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/av/av_sxn.htm Which are designed to be
>>  less "threatening" to the locals while
>> protecting the squaddies.
>

The Saxon wins because the enemy giggles themselves insensible when they
see it... odd looking duck to say the least.

> Good point-- I find the *commercial* Humvees to be intimidating.  FWIW, I
> also don't care for the most common version of the Land Rover to be found
> here-- it looks like you could tip it over by leaning against it: this is
> the one, I think, the Discovery:
> http://www.landrover.com/us/en/Vehicles/Discovery/Overview.htm

I've driven a Discovery - at least the '97 or '98 model. It felt tippy, but
I think that was just a side effect of a fully independent suspension and
not as wide a wheeltrack as the Hummer.

Personally I think we ought to be looking very hard at a South African
produced vehicle called the Buffel. You can see some of them here:
http://uk.geocities.com/sadfbook/shaskari.html

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