After a few years with a Mercedes G-Wagon, you might start surfing the web for an SUV that’s even more excessive and over-the-top. This 2015 Terradyne Gurkha LAPV (Light Armored Patrol Vehicle) offers combat-tested capabilities and luxury features that might make the perfect attention-grabber at the soccer game or country club. This one’s covered about 41,000 miles in about ten years, leaving plenty of life left on its well-disguised Ford F-450 platform. Check out more pictures and details here on eBay where $349,999 puts it in your driveway with one click… Buy It Now. You know you want to! After all, your wife wanted a meat dress, roses, and other disposable proclamations of of excess. Now it’s your turn. Conversely the Gurkha appeals to women seeking that feeling of power and security. You never know when things might get uncomfortable in traffic and neighborhoods where people pay rent. If you want that $350,000 to include a fill-up or two, try the Make Offer button. Maybe they’ll take $348,999.
Those unshaven gents who cleaned out your gutters last week might recognize the dashboard from their $16,000 Contractor White pickup. I racked up some miles on a 2017 F250 King Ranch with this layout and found the controls and switchgear to be well laid-out. The King Ranch proved a capable highway cruiser and confident hauler of large objects.
Designed entirely with a straight edge, the Gurkha looks bomb-proof and purposeful. Oxford describes “Gurkha” as “peoples of Nepal noted for their military prowess,” and this Terradyne Gurkha seems well-prepared to protect you from self-entitled late mergers and any light arms fire you may encounter while commuting to the office. My daughter has eyeballed a used Lenco Bearcat, a similar-looking vehicle, but I have to admit this Gurka looks much cooler. Maybe that justifies its costing nearly 20 times as much.
The roomy rear seat easily offers as much leg room as a long wheelbase 2006 BMW 750Li, and those rugged latches should stand the test of time even when operated by awkward and careless teens. This unit’s “VIP Package” includes leather, modern audio, ambient lighting in white or red, and more. Besides, security is its own luxury, don’t you think?
If your tiger team numbers more than five, there’s plenty of room for surplus crumb-snatchers back here, where you may also store soccer balls or essentials from Neiman Marcus and Louis Vuitton. Convenient storage under the bench seats keeps your grenades from rolling around as you slice your way through a herd of camels or forgettable plebian blobmobiles.
Only the F-series extendable mirrors suggest lineage to Henry Ford. I wonder what he would think of the Gurkha? Turn signals may not equate to right-of-way, but I’d probably let this thing merge in front of me more often than not. A sturdy winch up front might come in handy for removing the “Save The Earth” signs that eco-terrorists keep planting outside the gated perimeter of your estate. Dirty peasants! Which of your neighbors will be dropping $350k on this used armored SUV?
You go to personally take on a hostile armed standoff the other dayyyy….
Eye watering price, but maybe that’s just what all this specialty equipment costs.
A strength of Barn Finds is that we get to see things we never see, or in this case (for me), things I never knew existed. Fun write-up Todd.
How long before local law enforcement stops you, either to admire, or maybe to ask “sir would you just explain this to me.”
All this vehicle tells me is how far we’ve strayed from life as I knew it. At 70, if this is the future of motor vehicles, I won’t miss much. Terrible, and perhaps the future will be as grim as Hollywood portrays it will be.
In Memphis where I live , this would come in quite handy. From car jacking to random flying bullets, we have to always be on the lookout. Certain parts of our area are very dangerous even to drive through.
A deterrent to carjacking was invented in South Africa ten years ago, should be easy to retrofit to your current ride…https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEF3peZJeGI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
some gold-chain wearing larry the lounge lizard in Fort Lauderdale will buy this to pick up chicks or to impress his 1%er friends who don’t care about 5MPG.
Do the windows roll down? If not, how are you going to retrieve your Venti Macho Grande Flopachino with lactose free Yak Milk and a topping of foamed glitter while taking your spawn to preschool? And, for this price, you would expect a dance pole and disco ball in the passenger compartment. This looks like an MRAP that had too much plastic surgery.
If I still lived in Phoenix.
All of the ones I have seen have fixed windows or a driver’s window that only went down 3 inches. As I understand it, they can be ordered with front windows that go all the way down, but it detracts from the security part of it.
I don’t think that a McDonald’s Happy Meal will fit through a 3” opening- better order the full roll down option.
Just what you need when driving in Texas . . . to protect yourself from the ever increasing numbers of gigantic jacked up (usually black) four wheel drive pickups speeding and ignoring other drivers.
If only that behavior just existed in Texas.
Looks spacious enough for two people to ride out the economic apocalypse.
I’ve always liked these machines, designed with function over form. WAY beyond my means LOL, but if I had the coin, would probably take one over a supercar of similar cost, these days.
What’s up with the 100 bolt wheels?
They are more macho than 99 bolt wheels.
It’s good to see that wheel manufacturers are learning from their previous mistakes. The 99-bolt wheels were just flying right off of all of the armoured civilian vehicles I encountered on the road.
Rubbers will run you about 20K. Kids will run you even more than that.
Mil-spec rims with bead locks and run flat tires so you can get the kids to school after being ambushed by banditos. Better than a Canyonero. It need a roof turret and a Ma duece.
I wouldn’t buy one of these, as I wouldn’t want to tell people I drive aTerradyne Gurkha.
I thought a Terradyne Gurkha was either an electric toothbrush or a type of pickle. I learn something everyday at Barn Finds
Make a heck of a tail gate party vehicle!
Looks like a SWAT vehicle….
As I recall, their initial market was military and police. I think demand for civilian versions came after they placed a few in various cities.
I was going to say this will end up in Florida, but that is where it is now. The seller has two listed.
At $350k for a decade-old example, just how much do they have the stones to charge for these heaps of scrap metal on a truck chassis new?
This is the sort of thing that would be fun for one day, but anyone with real security concerns should be handed the keys to a Corolla Cross in Settle-For-Silver for inconspicuousness.
This reminds me of the armored trucks i used to drive when i drove for an armored truck company that carried money to and from banks but a lot more comfortable.