Land Rover Llama

The Land Rover Llama was a forward control military and civilian truck designed and developed by Land Rover in the mid 1980s. Eleven prototypes and a single production vehicle were built in 1986 and 1987 in the hope of winning a Ministry of Defence contract to replace the Land Rover 101 gun tractors. Llama was only the project codename, the vehicle being called the Land Rover 110 Forward Control in official documents. It was heavily based on the One Ten, with a thicker chassis, a 3.5 litre Rover V8 tuned to 110 horsepower, unique twin rear springs for a 1.75 ton payload and a tilting fibreglass cab on a spaceframe. Trials showed stability problems when fully laden, the MoD chose another design, and Land Rover would not risk selling it without the military order.