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Or rather a giant, offroad Volvo PV...

There's a reason that it was called 'suggan' (sugga is the fertile she-pig that is called 'sow' in many countries). The dimensions isn't perfect but you don't need much imagination to see the wide arse push the snout through brushes and mud. It looks stable and fertile 😁

Och Elvan!

Maybe that´s the case... it´s a secret operational division hidden behind a museum.

Of course.. ...he is Swwwedish!

He has a good voice. To bad most swedes hate to hear themselfs or other swedes speak english even with ever so slight swedish dialect.

Me too! I even got a ride in it. It had matt black paint, v8 and slightly bigger tires if my memory serves me right. Did som off road driving in Tromøy, Norway in early 90s. Not seen it after that.

@@MrCaprinut Might be one of the cars I remember from my youth. Late eighties to mid nineties was the period I followed off road racing closest. A family member was friends with the owner of "Apollo", if you remember that truck (stars and stripes decorated hot rod-thing)

I don't think it looks beautiful but it does look functional for that time. Sweden has always prioritized the survival of the soldiers/crew but comfort wasn't seen as more than something you could handle if needed. Something like 'do you want to walk or ride uncomfortable'.

Never heard that one, but it sounds as a plausible explanation. I often went to school in a Sugga, and later was among the latest to use the military version, in 1974-75. Fun car to drive, better offroad capability than the later Valpen. Also steadier on the road, and much less noise in the cabin. Top speed ~105 km/h.

Is only the shell, they put a Range Rover chassie under it and then it look old but with modern chassie/drivetrain that works in these days. And after that Järuds Classic Car in Sweden make it like new. 👍

Seen one here in south Norway as well several times.

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Most vehicles in Sweden have always been LHD, both military and civilian - I have no explanation why.

I have no idea if they were replaced or just scraped as yesterday's need (no updated crossbows in use nowadays). My guess is that radios became so portable that this type of transports became outdated. My oldest brother rode in a standard Volvo Amazon with military paint around 1974 (they did have sirens). The car contained one driver/sniper/medic, one suppressor (small machine gun with a huge magazine) and two radio opporarors with attack dogs and kpistar (kpist= m/45 in English). He and his teem responded to alerts from several tiny military airforce instillations alerts (the sound of a hangarhund reacting/ a military dog trained to kill on sight, becoming agreesive). They were always on the move so they used speed to be effective/be in the right place. With more powerful and portable radios you didn't have to climb a mountain to send a message. Radio cars wasn't needed!

Yes, they are correct mounted. It was a modification made on especially smaller vehicles because the tire wear increased when they were mounted the other way.

@@stefankarlsson9762 Ah, interesting. We have a TGB20 and it has them mixed up without consistency so I presumed they were all random but then some of them might be correctly mounted in fact.

@@gustav901 The Tgb 20 should have the rear tyres the same as on the Sugga and the front tyres the oposite direction.

Unimog U1300 and Unimog U1700 have the same setup. When you rotate the wheels you have to remove and refit tyres. I did it once with a U1700 at the local main camp motor pool with their big hydraulic tyre shop machine. I would not care to do it with tyre levers on those wheels.

The thing is, Volvo cars has been split off from the rest of the company. They only have the brand name in common. But Yeah, I think Volvo's appeal as a rugged, reliable and well-engineered utility veichle is far greater than that of a luxury car, however well built. They should have gone for something like a Hilux/Pajero/KingCab back in the nineties when Volvo's were built to withstand a nuclear war.

Tyvärr är det nog knepigt att hitta.

@@stefankarlsson9762 det var ju tråkigt, för det vore mycket smidigare att få igång vagnens inbyggda kommunikation och plint för både pjäser och inom bplats än att använda "patentlösningar" med direktkoppling mot resten av utrustningen. Ett problem som uppstått för att den erfarna personalen från vpl-systemet pensionerades i drivor 2006-2008 utan tanke på att materielen skulle tas i bruk igen i Hemvärnet när Armén gick över till Mjölner-vagnarna.

@@SonsOfLorgar Är det en vagn som hemvärnet har borde det gå att hitta någon inom FM som kan gräva fram information. Ute civilt däremot är det värre att hitta.

@@stefankarlsson9762 lyckades inte hitta infon i vagnens egna handböcker, får fråga vidare via ordinarie kanaler om det kanske finns digitaliserat.

Nope, the Swedish Army did a lot of tests and the conclusion was that with the tyres this way the wear of the tyres were a lot less

No, most vehicles in Sweden have had steering on the left side since 100 years even if we drove on the left side until 1967.

You don´t want to know considering today´s gas prices . . . ;O) .