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- BUSINESS, Page 56Business NotesTRANSPORTATIONHumvee in The Driveway
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- Looking for a rugged all-terrain vehicle? Then a Humvee might
- be just the buggy for you. It doesn't come with air conditioning
- or stereo, but it's been tested in real battlefield conditions.
- Humvee, which is short for High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled
- Vehicle, is the new U.S. Army jeep. Deployed first in combat in
- Panama, some 20,000 Humvees were used in the Persian Gulf war.
- Starting last week, the Humvee was being offered for sale to the
- public by defense contractor LTV, which is trying to diversify
- its way out of bankruptcy.
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- The consumer models won't exactly ride like the grunt
- versions. Seats will be more heavily padded, and the doors will
- be made of steel rather than fiber glass, for safety's sake. LTV
- hopes to sell 1,000 of the Humvees this year at a price from
- $40,500 to $44,000, which is about twice as much as a Jeep
- Cherokee costs but about the same as a Range Rover. The first
- customer to enlist was the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Good thing the manufacturers removed the missile launcher and
- cannon.
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