The Amatoya: Meet the next generation of fire fighting vehicles
by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) on Dec 1st, 2009 at 10:29AM
Designer Liam Ferguson's vision of how to fight fires almost makes us wish we were firemen – as long as we could have the keys to one of these. The Amatoya is a site recon and light tanker vehicle designed with a philosophy much more military than civilian. The seating position is like that of a AH-1 Cobra gunship, with the co-pilot up and behind the driver. The Amatoya is built on a monococque steel body, like armed forces MRAPs, insulated with NASA's aerogel, and painted with "military grade sacrificial thermo ceramic intumescent paints." The Remotely Operated Suppression Cannon... Read More
