4x4 in France.

Peugeot: Some car (504) can be transformed by the "Dangel Garrage" into 4x4. Now Peugeot, with Mercedes, do the "P4" car... It's a Mercedes G series, with a Peugeot engine.

Renault make 4x4 since 50 years... The best known:

R 2087, 4x4, 3.50 tons.(1950).

TP3, 4x4, 3,90 tons. (1970).

TRM 4000, 4x4, 6.00 tons (1980).

TRM 2000, 4x4, 4 tons (1985).

TRM 10000, 6x6, 20 tons (1990).(can transport 2 AMX (tank armoured)).

(TRM 10000 is like your "Pacific" of the 2nd WW).

MESSENGER, 4x4, 2 tons (1990).

But the Best 4WD of the world... I guess... is an Berlier truck!!! The "GBC", "TBC" or "TBU"... in fact it is a 6x6, like a GMC, but with a engeen "polycarburant" "GBC can drink all petroleum product"... An old truck (1960), but very heavy.

You know, I suppose, the "legion etrangere"? a very hard soldiers... they use only 2 cars: GMC 6x6 (in fact 10 WD, twin weels at the rear), of the 2nd WW. Berlier GBC 6x6.

You have also some Simca (big truck, drink too much gasoline), some Marmon (small 4x4), and some ALM (new car (ex-Latil :)), with radar and electronics).

You can find also some Willys Jeeps, and Land "commando".

>[Q: There is a French (?) replacement of the Pinzgauer for the Swiss army I think?]

In fact Pinzgauer is made by Austrian, not French. There are no Pinzgauer in French army, never. Too expensive (~$120,000), and the mechanics are very strange: no compatibility with the other vehicles. But you can find Unimogs in the French army. I don't know the Swiss army vehicle. But the Pinz, is not good for army: Not heavy, drink too much, no place into the car, not very beautiful.

[... and] the Hummer, very good 4x4, is not allowed to run in French roads... I hate the French laws about it!

- Tim Loozers, 6/11/96