Light utility vehicle

A light utility vehicle is a general term for small vehicle designed for military use.

Jeep
Jeep is a brand of American automobiles, whose line includes off-road vehicles. The name is also used as a generic term with a lowercase (jeep) for vehicles inspired by the Jeep that are suitable for use on rough terrain. The first Willys MB Jeeps were produced in 1941. In the United States military, the Jeep has been supplanted by the latest is the Humvee.

Kazuhira Miller transported Galvez and Paz to the Militaires Sans Frontieres camp in Colombia in a jeep, in order to meet with Big Boss.

On Shadow Moses Island, two M151 Military Utility Tactical Trucks (M.U.T.T.s) were stationed in the parking garage. At the conclusion of the Shadow Moses Incident, Meryl Silverburgh drove one of the jeeps, while Solid Snake operated the mounted M-60 machine gun. During their escape, the two encountered multiple checkpoints and, eventually, Liquid Snake gave chase in the second jeep that was in the garage.

Land Rover
The Land Rover is a series of off-road utility vehicles inspired by the US-built Willys Jeep. Examples include the Land Rover Wolf, used by the Dutch Marine Corps and the UK Armed Forces.

Desert Patrol Vehicle
The Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV), formerly called the Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV), is a high-speed, lightly armored sandrail-like vehicle first used in combat during the Gulf War in 1991.

Behind the scenes
The NES port of Metal Gear featured multiple jeeps as part of the vehicles seen in the background in the game. The cover art for Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake also includes the burning wreckage of a jeep.

The Metal Gear Solid Official Missions Handbook claimed that the jeeps on Shadow Moses were the Willys MB Overland Jeep, with a .30 cal water cooled machine gun, and that they were stripped down to their original desert camouflage design for repainting.

A Desert Patrol Vehicle appears in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel as the escape vehicle of Solid Snake and Chris Jenner in the ending. A Land Rover Wolf appears in the Brown Town map of the original version of Metal Gear Online.