The Russian UAZ has a portfolio in Russia that mainly consists of very old off-roaders. One is the Hunter, a car that is powered by the Spanish MWM Motors.
Earlier this month we wrote about the UAZ Classic Combi and today we again highlight a robust offroader from Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (UAZ), this time the Hunter. The Hunter is basically a further developed version of the 469 that the Russian company has been producing since 1971. That 469 is in turn a further development of the Gorky Automobile Factory (GAZ) 69 from the 50s. Since 2003, the model is called Hunter and it is that car that trades its 2.7-liter 128 hp and 210 Nm strong four-cylinder. for an electric power train.
UAZ does not itself pull the self-igniter from the Hunter, because the Spanish MWN Motors is responsible for that. MWM Motors, we know the company of the strikingly designed electric retrorakker Luka, calls his electric version of the Hunter the Spartan. The exterior of the Spartan can hardly be distinguished from that of the original, but the technical differences are of course enormous. MWN Motors will supply the Sparten with a 56 kWh battery pack, but will also place a 90 kWh package on the order list. The company does not report how far the Spanish-Russian EV gets with this. The company also keeps its lips tight on the electrical power plant itself. Nice detail: MWM Motors gives the Spartan a tiny digital set of instruments, a display that the company has incorporated in the center console.
The right-hand version can be seen on the first photos of the Spartan. MWM Motors first introduces the Spartan in Europe to the United Kingdom. The electric all-rounder must become available there in the second quarter of this year. Later on left-handed variants for the rest of Europe. Striking fact: MWM Motors also mentions the arrival of versions with a gasoline engine. Whether that means that the Spanish company will simply sell the regular Hunters or that it will provide the gas-fired Spartan with a different gasoline engine is not yet known. Extensive technical specifications follow at a later stage.