The Iltis replaced the Type 181 and did two things that outlived it. Its four-wheel-drive layout became Audi’s quattro system, launched four years later in 1980; and in that same year an Audi-prepared Iltis won the Paris–Dakar Rally, driven by Freddy Kottulinsky and Gerd Löffelmann, which sold the layout better than any advertisement.
Bombardier built the Iltis under licence at Valcourt, Quebec: 2,500 for the Canadian Forces and 2,673 for the Belgian Land Component, with a further 600 for Ottawa under a C$15 million contract in 1985. Canadian production stopped by 1986.
German production (1978–1988)
1 VEHICLE IN THIS CHAPTER9,547 built, with anti-tank, artillery survey, command and communications bodies.
Registry records · chapter 1
Paris–Dakar and the quattro (1980)
1 VEHICLE IN THIS CHAPTERThe rally win, and the drivetrain that became Audi’s quattro.
Registry records · chapter 2
Bombardier (1983–1986)
1 VEHICLE IN THIS CHAPTERCanadian and Belgian production at Valcourt, Quebec.
Registry records · chapter 3
Base models
The structural configurations the registry and the Creator build from; each page carries the researched specification.In service
Where the registry's Iltis records worked; each opens the themed history.Sources
- Volkswagen Iltis — Wikipedia