Zibar

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Zibar
Overview
ManufacturerIdo OffRoad Center Ltd.
Production1989present
Assembly Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Haifa District, Israel
Body and chassis
Class Off-road vehicle
Layout F4
Related Humvee

The Zibar is a family of light, four-wheel drive, military trucks and utility vehicles designed and produced by Israeli racer and fabricator Ido Cohen [1] in 1998. Cohen designed and manufactured the chassis and frame while utilizing commercial off-the shelf parts such as General Motors crate LS3 383 cid/6.2L 400 hp V8 engines (current engine is the LQ4 GM 6L 430 hp (320 kW) @ 5900 rpm V8, [2] ) General Motors 4L80E transmission, Atlas II transfer cases and General Motors Dynatrac 60 axles. [3] The current manufacturer is Ido OffRoad Center Ltd (IORC).

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By 2012 there were 40 made-in-Israel Zibars, five of them to the Israeli military and the others to customers in Africa, Russia, [9] Latin America [10] and Abu Dhabi. [1]

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