Pilgrimmick wrote:

I have a 57 plate lwb pick up. Pulls like a train ans very solid, much more so than a 110. Windscreen is deeper, door seals better, and pick up cab bigger, so much more leg room, just do not use it any more as not worth taxing it for the use it was getting.

zsd-puma wrote:

They're a Spanish company who had a licence to build Series 3 Land Rovers, Land Rover ended the contract with the Series 3, but Santana still chose to develop the basic design themselves. So they're basically series 3 chassis with leaf springs and newer engines and bits of body work fitted.

The safari doors on them are a bit bigger, they were eventually bought out by Fiat group and the car evolved into the Iveco Massif.

Just came across these in an article:


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"Released in select markets in 2007, the Iveco Massif is an Italian version of a Spanish off-roader that traced its roots to England. This multi-national SUV was closely related to the PS10 made by Santana (the 4x4 brand, not the guitarist), which was derived from the Land Rover Series III, but it wore a brand-specific front end drawn under the guidance of Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign and it received an updated interior built with components from the Iveco parts bin.

Iveco offered the Massif as a two-door, a four-door with up to seven seats and a two-door pickup. Approximately 4500 units were built annually and many ended up in the hands of various branches of the Italian government. Production ended when Santana, which built the model, filed for bankruptcy in 2011. In 2020, the Massif is rarely seen outside of the Alps."

https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/worlds-most-forgotten-suvs-0