following up on the monteverdi posts, here is one of the very first luxury SUV’s by swiss car manufacturer monteverdi. although the car was anything but swiss the company non-the-less functioned out of benningen, on the southern edge of basel. this was perhaps a reflection of the better known “range rover” by british leyland which although expensive, it sold for a fraction of the “safari” at the time. the safari’s price tag at the time was 185,000 swiss francs (approximately $241,215) a good chunk of change at the time. by dd