New International MXT

[flywgn]

This might make a good platform for an extreme expedition vehicle. All it takes is $ $ $ $ and a little ¢ thrown in for good measure. This is the armored military version, but a 'civilian' model is to roll out this summer.

Wow!

http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/militarybusiness/Intl_MXT_MV.asp

[jeffryscott]

This might make a good platform for an extreme expedition vehicle. All it takes is $ $ $ $ and a little ¢ thrown in for good measure. This is the armored military version, but a 'civilian' model is to roll out this summer.

Wow!

http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/militarybusiness/Intl_MXT_MV.asp

http://www.internationaldelivers.com/assets/PDFs/Oryx_specs.pdf

This one looks interesting also, if a non-armoured version was available. Maybe Arnold can convince International to make it available to the well heeled.

[flywgn]

http://www.internationaldelivers.com/assets/PDFs/Oryx_specs.pdf

This one looks interesting also, if a non-armoured version was available. Maybe Arnold can convince International to make it available to the well heeled.


There is. This is the one I was referring to being rolled out to the "average" consumer this summer.

http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/XTFamily/mxt.asp

[CLynn85]

I like the MXT-MV, primarily due to its size and payload. At work we regularly face the dilema of over-loading hmmwv's vs. the lack of a suitable vehicle without stepping up to an FMTV or Stryker. It's just so hard to get a new vehicle into military service when there is no parts/service base for it that it's hard to justify using a truck like that for a special application.

[flywgn]

.. It's just so hard to get a new vehicle into military service when there is no parts/service base for it...

Not sure that's stopped 'em before. I remember being dead-in-the-water in W. Germany when the Berlin Wall went up and all of us "spy-types" were scrambling for parts for our "Vehicle, GP, ¼-Ton"s thinking AHWGTBL any day. I ended up driving our XO on an "alert" in a "borrowed" VW that Rommel must have used. Even then, when we hooked up to our "ears-on-wheels" it wouldn't tow the *&&%$@# thing. We went off into the night with hand-held squawk-boxes.

Glad it was just practice.

Boy, those were the good days!