call me ignorant but aren't Humvees designed to be fast and lightweight? If you want a protected fighting transport that's why God invented TANKS and Bradley's!
"call me ignorant but aren't Humvees designed to be fast and lightweight?"
For an off-road vehicle using questionable and dirty fuel, yes. For a street vehicle, no.
The streets in Bagdad are OK. The fuel is good.
Get rid of the clunky tires, change the gear ratios, and put the after-market supercharger sold for the HV, and you'd be in business.
All these parts exist to make the HV more useable in the civilian world.