While on my last tour in Bosnia, we would see many IVECOs come through our gates with the Italian police. They were also to be seen in Croatia a lot, being used as commercial vehicles. And when I say "seen" I mean they weren't heard. Unlike the Canadian ones, their brakes don't let you know for a mile that they are coming.
It is my understanding that the unreliability of the IVECO LSVW was partially a Canadian inbred thing. The Canadian ones are horrible vehicles; underpowered and high mainteneance, and with chronic problems. The LCMMs were actually talking about replacing them before the MLVW fleet, although I believe they now consider the LSVW adequate.
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