Panhard PVP

The Panhard PVP, officially the Petit Véhicule Protégé or Light Protected Vehicle, is a light general-purpose armoured four-wheel-drive vehicle made by Panhard for the French Army. It was designed and built by Auverland, which bought Panhard in 2005, and is also known as the Auverland A4 AVL. The French Army ordered a first batch of 314 in 2004 as one of the successors to the Peugeot P4. The first vehicles arrived in February 2008 and production ended in July 2012, after 1,073 were delivered at about 167,000 euros each, well below the 1,500 first planned. It serves mainly as a personnel and weapon carrier and for reconnaissance and communications. The steel and aluminium armour gives STANAG 4569 level 2 protection and the floor resists antipersonnel mines. Larger HD and XL versions with level 3 armour followed, and Ashok Leyland licence-built a version as the Colt. Chile, Romania, Togo and Mali also use it.