International SOTV-B disguises military armour beneath HiLux body02:02 - Cars Guide
It is an all-terrain military vehicle, complete with armour protection, designed to blend in. The custom machine is made by Navistar Defence, an arm of the company that builds International and CAT trucks. Called the International SOTV-B, it uses the logic that rolling into a remote area in the Middle East with a great big Chevy Silverado or Humvee is a good way for US forces to get noticed. The stealth ute is a variant of the SOTV-A — Special Operations Tactical Vehicle — which is best described as a Humvee replacement. The regular A model looks every bit a military machine with armour plating and the regulation khaki paint. It is a crew cab with a high level of armour protection, it was designed from the ground up for military use, which means everything is stronger and more resilient than any civilian vehicle and it has outstanding off-road capability. It is not a direct copy of any model, but the naked eye could easily confuse it with a fifth-generation Toyota HiLux , which was built for a decade after being introduced in 1988. . This is intentional, given old HiLux models have been used... The SOTV-B has a payload of 1361kg-1814kg depending on the weight of the armour plating and. Source: www.carsguide.com.au
