The days of the smaller MVs are numbered. In the older days crew confort was secondary to utility. The older trucks were cramped, freezing in the winter time and like an oven in the summer. For those that have done it, remember those long road moves from Calgary to Wainwright, Pet to Gagetown, oh my aching butt and back.
Today the emphasis is on the soldier and the vehicle role, make the soldier more comfortable and he will perform his tasks in a more efficient manner????
I try and look forward to see where the hobby will be in 10-15 years and I see a bleak future, there will be no more smaller MVs to be had and the larger ones will require massive parking spaces.
For those that know me; you know the fight I am having trying to get the MLVW registered for the road. As I get older banging my head against the wall hurts a lot more.

In the future collectors will only have the big trucks to choose from, if we can get them. i.e. the jeep replaced by the Humvee and they will not be sold to the public when retired?
In the near future the Fiats that are in Cdn military service are going to be retired, my bet is no registration for the road. The Mercedes G-Wagons are having turret problems and are being parked by many units because of long delay times for repairs, What is their fate for the future???
Yea I know I sound like a doomsday prophet, but what the heck it's January, it's cold outside and I have a captive audience. All I can say is "to those diehard enthusiasts," The hell with everyone else, I like what I do and I do what I like, get out of the way because this old army truck will run you over."
Boy am I getting poetic or is that pathetic???

On a lighter note you will be saddened by my absence next week as I have to go on a cruise with my wife. Gilles