Steyr-Daimler-Puch built two four-wheel drives of its own at Graz before and beside the Mercedes-Benz G it assembled from 1979: Erich Ledwinka’s Haflinger of 1959–74 (16,647), a 635 kg backbone-and-portal-axle car with a 643 cc twin, and the Pinzgauer 4x4 and 6x6 of 1971–2000 (18,349 first-generation), the high-mobility truck of the Austrian, Swiss and British armies, continued in England to 2009.
Erich Ledwinka’s 635 kg four-wheel drive of 1959–74: a backbone tube, portal axles, swing half-axles, locking differentials and a rear-mounted 643 cc flat twin — 16,647 built at Graz, about 7,000 for the Austrian, Swiss and Australian armies and the Royal Navy, the rest sold in 35 countries; the smallest vehicle in the registry.
The Haflinger’s layout at truck scale: the Pinzgauer 710 (4x4) and 712 (6x6) of 1971–85 with an air-cooled 2.5-litre four (18,349 built), the 716 and 718 of 1986–2000 with the Volkswagen turbo-diesel six, and the Pinzgauer II built at Guildford by Automotive Technik and BAE Systems from 2000 to 2009 — the Austrian, Swiss and British armies’ high-mobility truck, and the armoured Vector that failed in Helmand.