Treser Hunter

[Sauc3]

The Treser Hunter
Sheiks sometimes have strange hobbys. For example the falconry, where you let the falcon do the hunting. Logical, huh? And if you have that hobby, you need the right car. It should be able to go offroad, but should be comfortable enough. And it should have a sunroof in which the falconrist can stand. Now our sheik has a distinctive taste: His five Range rovers may be comfortabel, but they are still only offroad vehicles. But his neighbour has that crazy car, a Sbarro from the Swiss. That's a nice car more like a offroad Limo. Our sheik wants something like that, too. But to buy a Sbarro would be boring. Then he thinks of his Treser Largo. It has all wheel drive, hasn't it? A short phone call to Germany results in Walter treser being ready to convert an Audi 90 to a falconry car. Our sheik is delighted and together with some fellow sheiks they order some Hunters.
Who knows? Maybe that was the way it happened? Fact is, that Treser had already sold some beautiful Hunters to Arabia in 1986. auto motor und sport, the German magazine was allowed to test drive the presentation model. But not in dunes but in mud. The Hunter drove well, thanks to his three diff locks. For a real offroader the gearing would be too long, even with the shorter geared diffs. But for dunes the setup obviously worked- Treser used his biggest michelin TRX tires on the Hunter. The Ferrari Testarossa of those years used the same tires!
The tires are guarded by extended fenders that together with the large tires create so mucg resistance, that the Hunter despite its tuned 5 cylinder (normally aspirated, 160PS) only reached 177km/h. But that was enough for sand tracks.
19cm of ground clearance and a tilting angle of 36 degrees are quite respectable and enough to do dune buggying, where the Hunter with its wide tires would not sink into the sand so much.
Topic price: For a sheik that is not really a topic. If you wanted to order a Hunter in Germany you had to invest around 115,000DM (over 57,000Euro or Dollar). But then you only got the stock interieur...

Treser Hunter #1

[Sauc3]

Treser Hunter #2

[pimento]

Birth of the cross-over?

[pergarec]

Just don't say it can climb up those stairs!


Yeah, some hardcore offroading right there.

[NSXType-R]

Wow, that's pretty cool. Reminds me of a crazy Subaru Legacy/Liberty.