Solved: Monty021 - Aria Group Warthog (2012)

[el_monty]

Fellow autopuzzlers, for a point please tell me what is this car, from when, based on what.

Don't be naughty! Stay away from Google Search by Image, kids

[el_monty]

Up to the experts

[morphly]

The Warthog build like the one that appears in Halo 4.
It was made by Aria Groups, and is based on a Hummer H1.

[el_monty]

Correct. A point for you. The vehicle was commissioned to Aria Group in 2012 by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft responsible for making "Halo 4", to use as a promotion tool at Comic-con and E3.

From the L.A. Times:

"Mark Ferrara, chief project manager at Aria, says this kind of experience made the Warthog project relatively easy.

"We build so many prototype vehicles," Ferrara said. "This was not a particularly challenging vehicle for us."

Ferrara's team spent six months creating a Warthog body identical to the video version, down to the smallest detail: fake rivets on the industrial-grade foam or plastic reinforced fiberglass body panels, hand-holds to get into the vehicle, and the gauges in the Warthog's interior with static readouts. Even the horn has been lifted from the game and attached to a speaker.

The vehicle is essentially a pickup, with two conventional seats in the cabin and a truck bed. There are no doors, just a low sill. Mounted in the bed is a fake 50-caliber machine gun.

Underneath the hand-assembled skin is the chassis, transmission and engine from a 1996 Hummer H1. It has a 6.5-liter diesel V-8 engine and a four-speed automatic transmission. For safety purposes, the Warthog has a top speed of only 25 mph. But it can do more."