davidkroberts,
I know that VW sold the tooling and the complete assembly to Bombadier. I did read this in the early 80's is Soldat und Technik und in Wehrtechnik. And when VW sold that and the price Canada paid for the Iltis, the German Army got two+ for one (Some 8800 DM vers some 36000 C$). The price was mentioned in the magazines mentioned above. So the Canadian Iltis have the same weeknesses as the German ones with the 1.7 l gas engine, for they are 100% identical. And the Iltis is nothing more than a slightly modernized Munga, which Audi and VW nowadays excuses and recognizes. Beside that, a friend of mine had an Iltis, which he used fore some 6 years in BC, Canada, originally from VW with improvements produced by the prototype shop of VW in Wolfsburg. I personally know the Meister (craftsman mastership, a title you do not have in the states) who made these parts for the improvement.
By that time the Bundeswehr could have had the "Wolf" Mercedes Benz G allready, however, by some political decisions the Audi Iltis made it. 10 years later the Wolf was introduced and bought for the Army. The Iltis became surplus, even the versions built after 1980 with the Diesel engine and 17 didged VIN.
Wolf