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Named model · Santana · presented February 1979; built through the 1980s

Santana 2000 FC Soft Top

A Santana 2000 forward-control two-tonne truck with a canvas tilt over the rear cargo body, presented in Spanish military finish. The Santana 2000 chassis-cab, launched in February 1979 with the company's 3,429 cc straight six, is a genuine and well-documented vehicle, but no source consulted confirms a Spanish military soft-top version of it, so the military framing is recorded here as unverified.

Military · Spain
Santana 2000 FC Soft Top — front three-quarter render

Factory colours

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

History

Santana Motor of Linares built Land Rovers under licence from 1958 and developed its own forward-control truck in 1967, the 1.3-tonne Santana 1300, on 109-inch Series IIA running gear. Its replacement arrived in February 1979: the S-2000, or Santana 2000, with the payload raised to two tonnes and a larger, more adaptable forward cab. Power came from Santana's own 3,429 cc straight six — 104 CV and 241 Nm on petrol, 94 CV and 309 Nm on diesel — through a four-speed synchromesh gearbox and two-speed transfer case with four-wheel drive. It measured 4,949 mm long by 1,960 mm wide, stood 2,235 mm over the cab, cleared 280 mm and grossed 4,600 kg.

Like the 1300, the 2000 was sold as a chassis-cab so operators could specify their own bodywork, and the factory listed tipper, crane platform, snow plough, insulated van, irrigation tanker and fire-fighting configurations. A simple cargo body under a canvas tilt on a hoop frame is the most basic of these, and the natural choice for carrying troops or general stores; Santana's canvas tops were a familiar feature of the company's military range, where the 88 Ligero and 109 Militar were commonly supplied with a canvas roof and a fibreglass hard top as an option.

What could not be established for this record is that the Spanish armed forces operated the forward-control Santana 2000 in this configuration. Santana's military business ran through the 88 Ligero, the 109 Militar and later the Aníbal, and the surviving Spanish-language literature on the 1300 and 2000 treats them as civil and public-works vehicles — although the Spanish state was Santana's largest customer, and Spanish Wikipedia notes that some 1300s were built to special order for government bodies. The Difflocked model derives from user-supplied reference photographs that could not be traced to a published source, so it is recorded as a draft: a real chassis and a real body style, with the military service unverified.

Imagery

A Santana 2000 forward-control double cab with a hard box body on the rear deck. Shown because no freely licensed photograph of a canvas-tilt or military Santana 2000 was found; the cab and chassis are the same
A Santana 2000 forward-control double cab with a hard box body on the rear deck. Shown because no freely licensed photograph of a canvas-tilt or military Santana 2000 was found; the cab and chassis are the same Schumi4ever · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗

Registry record

Manufacturer
Santana Motor S.A. (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana), Linares (Jaén), Spain
Manufactured
presented February 1979; built through the 1980s
Engine type
3,429 cc Santana inline-six — 104 CV petrol (241 Nm) or 94 CV diesel (309 Nm)
Country of origin
Spain
Status
out of production; surviving examples in civilian hands

Catalogue data

Record kind
Named model
Model line
Santana
Wheels
4

Base catalogue fields are exported from the Difflocked game. In-game physics values are arcade tuning, not certified historical measurements, and are deliberately not shown as specifications here.

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Registry record updated 2026-09-10T02:08:52.770Z · status: draft