Armormax is one of several companies that build armoured cars for politicians, high-flying executives and other wealthy clients seeking protection on SA’s crime-ravaged roads.
The Johannesburg-based company recently conducted a test to see what it would take to completely destroy one of its cars. Watch as an armoured Toyota Prado is subjected to high-powered rifles, machine guns and finally, a big bang.
Purposely built on the proven Land Cruiser 79 series, the TAC-6 has been so extensively reengineered as to become a vastly more capable and quite different vehicle. With the additional axle, the TAC-6 offers greater payload (gross vehicle mass is up to seven tons) and offroad agility. Armormax Defence said the TAC-6 has been comprehensively over-engineered to ensure it can not only go anywhere but come back again, in environments where product failure simply is not an option.