Sime Darby’s Land Rover (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd displayed its Land Rover Defender 6X4 Puma concept at the Defence Services Asia 2008 exhibition this month, and Land Rover Malaysia says the concept attracted a high level of interest from the Malaysian Armed Forces and numerous foreign visitors.
The Land Rover Defender 6X4 Puma Concept was developed in Malaysia by Land Rover Malaysia and Sasbilt Technologies Malaysia. It features a long wheelbase of 3302mm and the 6-wheeler can run on either 4 wheels (6X4) or all 6 wheels (6X6).
The long wheelbase enables the use of a custom body which can accommodate an electric generator in the rear compartment and a spacious cabin for radio and satellite equipment and at least four crew members. The cabin doors are wider to enable easy access and loading of radio equipment. A full-size antenna can be mounted on the roof for the 6X4 Puma Concept to be used as a VSAT satellite vehicle in the battlefield.
It is powered by Land Rover’s Ford Duratorq “Puma” 2.4 litre common rail turbodiesel engine. Depending on tuning, it can produce between 74hp to 135hp and between 185Nm to 285Nm of torque.
One more rear shot after the jump.
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That’s so cool. Imagine the road respect.
2.4l to power a longwheel base rover??
must be joking
funny how the truck was arranged in the stone/pebble landscape. Reminds me of those artificial landscape garden when I visit Govt. offices.
Just imagine how it will hanging at a bump like a see-saw in the forest of Malaysia.
Long wheelbase LR has been used by the Australian special forces for quite sometimes. And it’s 6×6. This one is suitable as a command vehicle and will not be able to go everywhere in our terrain due to it’s long wheelbase and 6×4 nature. Developed in Malaysia?
izit the only one in the world ?
I don’t think this is use for those kinds of instance where exploring the jungle. Its more like need flexibility of housing communication equipment. Long wheelbase and Malaysian jungle looks like a disaster to me.
Australia Jungle is the same with Malaysian jungle?
defenders are know for their durability.
so is this also bullet proof and super durable?
Malaysia own version of Hummer. look great though. Waiting for some artist to buy it and make it a trend. Or do our artist have those money enough.
nothing great.
just streched version. everyone can do it..
they mist try something better than this, or open the ARMY tender for public auction, let see weither DRB hicom can challenge other or not.
Aha! Super MPV/SUV crossover concept. 7 seater, not-so-heavy-terrain forest, cool family weekend. Will tell everyone to Get Out Of The Way! while driving in KL traffic. Including Hummers. Cool.. would be very pretty in gleaming black.
unbalance and weird
I don’t see it being used in our terrains. How’s the tuning radius and ground clearance? Anyways, would be good in places with flatter terrains.
this is sick… and with the ‘Concept’ word on it, that’s even more pathetic….
better get a proper Hummer or Toyota Mega Cruiser for military purposes….
Well honestly Malaysia does not need a humvee it consumes a hell of a lot of fuel and it is too bulky and very heavy… Land rovers has been used for the military since like forever in malaysia.
They are durable, tough, and simple to maintain. This “concept” is most likely a command vech. Command vech does not need to go deep into the jungles and if you taught the army will use them like humvee’s going charging into the enemy then you got the wrong vech. We use g-wagons, and APC for that purpose, these are mostly are set up as mobile command post. Way-waaaay away from the actual military operations taking place… which is why although great, it does not need serious armor protection.
for the sake of presentation,
this looks like a lasy lying phyton,
my suggestion is that, batter to present the car on uneven ground level so that we could see some static action of how the suspension works, its more exciting.
this one looks like a memorial,
Seems to have a really puny engine to lug all that around
I do agree with what paxter has to say about this vehicle. Hummer is really unsuitable to be used here. It’s a real fuel guzzler and it’s wide. LR and G-Wagon are better suited here. It might be possible to see this vehicle be operated by the armed forces as command vechicle or UAV (Pilotless recon plane). Hummer is cool as movies portrayed this vehicle as tough, in fact it’s not. It takes a heck awful lots of armour to make it a little resistant to roadside attack or IED. Hummer suffers a lot in Iraq so does the IFV called the Striker. That’s why Pentagon rushed MRAP (Mine Resistance Ambush Protection) vechicles to counter IED attacks (similar to Barricade in Transformers the Movie). Even that is not immune. LR has been used for decades here and I think there are reasons for it.
Anyway Land Rover is not put as a frontline attack vehicle rather liasion, logistics, command and control and light strike vehicle in our country. Even the US Army won’t put Hummer in front of the tanks to lead an offensive. It would be suicidal.
it reminds of war in iraq & afghanistan. Not a good idea….
My previous entry of MRAP vehicle example is not the Barricade but Bonecrusher of the Transformer the movie, my bad. Military vehicles have to perform accordingly in peace and the stress of war conditions. I’m not trying to give the gruesome images of the war but vehicle wise, these two theatres did provide some requirements for a better vehicles. The LR above could be one of many variants that can be used for peaceful purposes.
land rover puma konsep tidak segunaan esuai untuk k
Maybe suitable for field ambulance or special forces vehicle etc ?
this setup looks great, I’m in the process of collecting parts to make myself a 6×6 doublecab pickup with 8ft pickup bed, I think there are going to be a lot of these vehicles in the future made by the general public.
I looking at this project like doing a kit car type thing, I’ll be doing the vehicle stage by stage. I just got the axle with a spare diff to start the double diff axle next week, I’ll be searching for a 110 or 130 chassis and just work from there. I’ve got the wheels in storae reading for reconditioning, theres a long way to go but thats part of the fun of doing these projects sourcing the parts for it.
ALAN
Sheffield S25
ps If any one wants to see a computor generated picture of my proposed 6×6 please drop me a line, its not the worlds best but you will get what my plans are lol. email – [email protected]
hi,looking for a land rover puma 2.4ltr budget us$15,000 CIF