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Oshkosh JLTV: The Vehicle That Buried the Humvee — Then Got Buried Beside It When Oshkosh won the largest light tactical vehicle contract in history, one of its executives made a claim that sounds like ad copy but turned out to be roughly true. He said the vehicle delivered the ballistic protection of a light … Read more
Humvee: The World-Beater Born From a Lamborghini That Almost Died Here is a fact the U.S. Army would rather you forgot. The most recognisable military vehicle on Earth — the one that rolled across Iraqi sand live on CNN, the one Schwarzenegger turned into a driveway trophy — owes its existence to a borrowed blueprint, … Read more
The Spanish 4×4 That Beat the Defender, Then Bankrupted Its Own Factory Top Gear built an entire personality around the idea that the Defender was unbeatable — slow, agricultural, and somehow untouchable, the automotive equivalent of a national monument nobody was allowed to criticise. In July 2005, a British magazine tested that assumption properly. “4×4 … Read more
The Spanish Factory That Started Fixing Solihull’s Homework Chris Harris once said the joy of an old Land Rover is that it forgives you for everything except neglect. Fair enough. But nobody in Britain ever built the version that admits the factory itself needed forgiving too. That version was built in Spain, by a company … Read more
Aixam Mega Track: the off-road supercar that arrived 25 years early The best-selling Lamborghini in history isn’t a Countach or a Miura. It’s the Urus, an SUV. The Porsche the internet lost its mind over a couple of years ago was the 911 Dakar, a jacked-up, all-wheel-drive 911 built to leave the pavement. The whole … Read more
Toyota FJ40: the truck that won by never breaking down Here’s a fact that should sting a little if you grew up on American iron. The vehicle that first put Toyota on the map in the United States wasn’t the Corolla, or the Corona, or the Celica. It was a boxy Japanese 4×4 that looked … Read more
The Pinzgauer Is the Best Camper Base on Earth (and the One You Shouldn’t Buy) Top Gear once parked a Pinzgauer next to a Land Rover and the joke wrote itself: one of them looked like it had wandered off a NATO base, the other looked like it wanted to go to Waitrose. Twenty years … Read more
The Unimog Was Built to Straddle Two Rows of Potatoes (and Ended Up Crossing Deserts) Jeremy Clarkson once drove a Unimog through a brick wall on Top Gear and seemed genuinely surprised when the wall lost. That’s the Unimog in one image: a vehicle so absurdly overbuilt that demolishing a house feels like a Tuesday. … Read more
The Ugly 75-Horsepower Box That Gave Birth to Quattro Picture the scene. Frozen Scandinavia, somewhere in the winter of 1976. A team of Audi engineers is out testing prototypes on sheets of ice, and trailing behind them as a support vehicle is a squat, canvas-topped military runabout with all the visual charm of a filing … Read more
The chemist who built his own Defender, the Ineos Grenadier. How a British billionaire fell out with Land Rover, called BMW, and bought a Mercedes factory to make the car JLR refused to build Some cars are born from an engineer’s passion. Others from a customer’s frustration. And a very few — a very small … Read more
VAMTAC: The Galician Tactical Vehicle That Out-Engineered The Humvee The image you’ve probably seen If you scroll military hardware accounts on social media, you might have caught the footage. May 2026. Casas de Uceda training ground, central Spain. The rear ramp of an Airbus A400M of the Spanish Air and Space Force opens at around … Read more
G-Class: The most expensive military truck on Earth is sold at your local Mercedes dealer The German Army pays Mercedes-Benz roughly €224,000 per unit for the new Wolf 2 — the latest military Geländewagen, the one that has to start in -34°C in a Polish forest, ford rivers, climb 100% gradients, and keep four soldiers … Read more
