Iveco MPV 4x4-6x6

The Iveco MPV 4x4-6x6, also called the Iveco VTM or VTMM (Véhicule Tactique Multirôle), the Multi-role Medium Tactical Vehicle (MMTV), the Multi Purpose Vehicle, and the KMW Grizzly in Germany, is a new generation wheeled armoured vehicle designed and produced by Iveco Defence Vehicles at Bolzano in northern Italy, and also built under licence by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for the German army. It was designed from the chassis of the Iveco Trakker 6x6 truck. Its engine is a FPT Industrial Cursor 9, a six cylinder common rail turbodiesel of nine litres giving 400 horsepower DIN (294 kilowatts) in the 4x4 and 440 horsepower DIN (331 kilowatts) in the 6x6, with an automatic five speed hydromechanical gearbox. The armour gives high protection against projectiles, fragmentation missiles and improvised explosive devices, which suits mine clearance missions, and the vehicle has an NBC system with independent air conditioning and machine guns of 7.62 and 12.7 millimetres with a 40 millimetre grenade launcher. The article puts its selling price at one million euros. Italy took the 4x4 and Germany the 6x6 Grizzly. The vehicle carries troops and serves as an ambulance, an artillery tractor or a command post. The programme began on the German maker's initiative in 2007; at Eurosatory in June 2008 it signed Iveco for the 4x4, prototypes followed, and series production was to begin in 2009.