In Soviet Union, Peace comes to your War.

I sure hope I can get one for cheap in a foreclosure auction.

48l/100km is a little less than ideal. 14000kg can really slow you down. Who cares it floats!

Dammit, I wanna drive one of those to school. Damn the parking pass or mileage, I WANT ONE!

Mah, My Jeep Liberty can do all that. Stupid Russians

I can almost hear the unmistakable sound of rednecks cashing in their aluminum cans in order to scrape together a down payment on the "best danged huntin' truck money could buy!"

I would drive one.

I think I am getting the same feeling that Western Europeans get when they talk about "Hummer driving Americans"

@FredTheGreat: Yeah, but you should double the number of wheels on your Jeep anyway.

Never get cut off in traffic again...

"Jeeves, we'll be having our cocktails on the veranda this evening, then we'll go for a spin around the lake..."

This makes the H1 really look like its for children.

WANT. Forget the necks around here with their Silverados and bass boats, I want a BTR!

Cheap plastics on the dash with poor fit and finish are not what you'd expect from an armored troop carrier in this class. However, if anyone were to make fun of your cheap plastics, they could hypothetically spend the next two weeks of their life picking the remainders of their RX350 out of the ground where it once sat parked before you "accidentally" ran it over.

Some of the old Unimogs in the Turkish military were auctioned off a couple years ago. A decomissioned snowplough equipped 6 wheeler went for 2 grand. Imagine the phun.

Can Jalopnik find any more info on the YAK? It's a Russian snow vehicle manufactured using a regular truck or somethingorother fitted with airplane wheels and tyres/innertubes so it can travel the vast tundra of Siberia and float from iceberg to iceberg.

Needs more Dynamat.

I think it'd be magic to use something like this for a commuter if you worked in a city. No more getting cut up in traffic or bullied by bus drivers!

Does it come in black?

@corvidae:

not to mention Russians driving Hummer H6s ...

[englishrussia.com]

I'm just completely floored that there is a "civilian version" of this lusty/mighty beast. Insert obligatory diesel and this would be oh so sweet.
I mean, more sweet than it already is.

@evoCS: There is a Czech military version called the OT-64, which was fitted with a Tatra V8 diesel. Not terribly powerful, but very torquey. Performance isn't quite on a par with this thing, but adequate for scaring pedestrians and other drivers in city traffic.

Awesome. Just make sure it doesn't fall into the hands of *insert favorite celebriskank's name*.

I have a slogan you could use to sell these, guaranteed it will raise sales by at least 50%... We could sell it through Jeep dealerships... Contact me and we can make a deal...

given the condition of the roads they show on englishrussia, you'd almost need one of these to drive to vladivostok.

First soccer mom with one of these rules the car pool!

I used to know a guy with an Alvis Stalwart(same kinda thing, but British, leaky and with a huge Rolls-Royce straight-eight). It was awesome. Had to jack the nwheels of the ground to loosen up the transmission after driving it on the road, as the Alvis has no diffs. Which is pretty Jalopnik right there.

I hope you noticed the aluminum foil lining the cockpit.
NOW WHO'S LAUGHING AT MY HAT !?!?

There is a smaller variant, BRDM, but it also has 8 wheels and can swim.

The best part would be the bumper sticker "my son/daughter is an honor student at XXX High School"

You so cutomer sevis good, no?

Wow, you could go anywhere in that thing ... except maybe Afghanistan ...

@Nayrlladnar:
It is to commieish to be driven by Rednecks.

I love it.

I would so put an "Al Gore for POPE" and "My other car is a Prius" on the back!

Anybody else a little let down by 260 hp and 578 lb.ft of torque from a 10.85L supercharged V8? How can we remedy this unfortunate situation? I think 1000 is a good round starting point for this type of vehicle.

Otherwise, I approve.

It gets 100 km on 60-130 liters of fuel (between 1.81 and 3.92 mpg) or when driving "on impassability".

Is is just me, or does driving on impassability sound...words fail me this early in the morning.

@13thfloorelevator: Stollies are great, but apparently the drivetrains are very complicated and a nightmare to maintain. As you say, the drivetrain 'wind up' due to the lack of diffs will cause the bevel gears to break if the vehicle is driven on hard surfaces for any length of time. Some Stolly owners combat the problem by occasionally mounting a pavement or running a set of wheels onto the roadside verge.

It would be true PCH, but I've often wondered if it'd be possible to transplant the running gear from a Saracen / Saladin / Salamander into a Stolly hull so it could be used more easily on the road...

GM has a hybrid version coming out soon.

We need George Peppard and Jan Michael Vincent to drive this thing and avoid giant scorpions

The engine is actually a 260hp turbocharged diesel made by Kamaz, same brand that has a history of winning Paris-Dakar truck class. It just so happens that the block used here and in the Dakar truck is basically the same. So there are ready available parts to take this up to about 750hp. Top speed would then be something in the region of 100-110 mph

Pros: Super Crushing Potential!

Cons: Interrior by Jiffy-Pop.

What kind of Lamborghini technology is being used to have an engine of almost twice the displacement of the 1999 Cummins ISB in my motorhome put out less horsepower & torque than said 5.9L Cummins?! I like the 2 MPG as a bonus, too. That beast outweighs the motorhome I'm comparing it to by about 4K lbs., and the MH doesn't float, but the 8-wheeled monster has me beat on aerodynamics.

Still, I want one.

That the Cummings is 12 years newer than this beast?

Could be worse, the predecessor BTR-60 and BTR-70 used TWO GASOLINE engines, one on each side with its own transmission. Not the optimal setup for crossing fire swept ground.

@Kelly: It's probably designed to run on low quality fuel (maybe multi-fuel), so that might contribute. I was also reading on [www.wikimakeitupia.org] that it's designed to start without pre-heating in temperatures as low as -25, which could also be a factor.

Make one hell of a Mini-Winni.

@FredTheGreat: Yes, but if you drive a Jeep Liberty, you might end up accidentally driving a Jeep Liberty.

@AustinMiniMan: I hate it when that happens.

That is easily 2 wheels better than the best Pinzgauer.

Parking: $10 an axle!

to witness a bigger machine after a four foot snowfall has owned the land for several months...is exhilarating. I spotted some northen work machines chopping trees near the highway with what must have been 4-5 feet of snow on virgin ground..they leave a faultless trail of two ruts and a track that never spun,and there is the driver in the monster rig in a t-shirt puffin a smoke and no doubt listening to a cd not even skipping...at 15 below freakin zero. I want to jack up my old sube now...and flop over on straight aways like a tahoe...for no apparent reason but the big guy in the big machine makin me feel all tiny inside.

OHHHHHHH BABY - Where do I sign up to import one of these!!!??? :-D
IF we get one of these shipped over here to the States... do you think we could get it inspected & tagged like a motorhome and drive it on the street??? :-P...

Finally, the russian version of the Honda Element.