Inkas Huron a mean people mover

Forget white-bread family buses and meet one of the world's toughest people movers.

It's called the Inkas Huron Armoured Personnel Carrier and is based on a North American Kenworth truck chassis. Canadian company INKAS specialises in bomb-proof cars and special SWAT-style trucks for law enforcement agencies and approved defence agencies.

The Huron is its latest and most advanced APC. It has been developed to be as light and agile as possible, while also providing a high level of protection for its occupants.

As Inkas explains, its design "maximizes its ability to protect passengers in any environment and allow the vehicle to endure high levels of attacks while maintaining its full performance". Special armour plating is fitted to protect the occupants as well as the engine bay to ensure the Huron can still move after taking a hit. 

The armour plating meets all kinds of standards for a range of ammunition as well offering blast protection for select hand grenades and equivalent light anti-personnel mines. If the APC is deployed to a particularly rough area, there is always the option of fitting a roof-mounted gun turret.

Inkas bases the Huron on a medium duty Kenworth truck, but removes the donor body and fits its own unique hard-shell. It retains the 8.3-litre PX8 turbo diesel six-cylinder, which wears PACCAR badges but is actually a version of the ISC unit manufactured by Cummins. This is a modern diesel engine that runs common rail fuel injection and a variable geometry turbocharger that improves driveability.

It is available with power outputs of between 149kW (200hp) and 242kW (325hp), although it is not clear on the exact power and torque figures of the Huron APC.

Like the donor truck, the Huron runs a durable ten-speed Allison manual transmission. Inkas also builds armoured vehicles based on the Toyota Hilux, Land Rover Defender and Toyota Tundra as well as a prisoner transport vehicle based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van.