Tarpan Honker DZT Honker ( initially known as Tarpan Honker , also Daewoo Honker , Andoria Honker and Intrall Honker 4x4 ) - is a Polish multi - purpose all - terrain pick - up truck . Created in 1984 , it is still in production in a variety of models . It is best known as the light truck used by the Polish Army both at home and in Iraq . Apart from the army and police forces , the company to own the largest number of Honkers is the KGHM company , which uses them to transport miners underground . History . The prototype of the Honker was created in 1984 in the Fabryka Samochodów Rolniczych ( Farming Vehicles Works ) or FSR in Poznań . Based on the earlier design of the Tarpan car , it was to replace it as the basic Polish - made pick - up truck in public service . However , it was not until 1988 that the serial production was started . The car was produced in two variants : Soon after production started , the FSR started the construction of a new , slightly shorter and more narrow ( 2210 mm ) version , which received the designation of Honker 4032 . Although the prototype never entered serial production , it was the first car to be known solely as Honker , without any indication of its relation to the earlier Tarpan . In late 1996 the design was bought by the Daewoo Motor Polska company , who decided to continue the production in Lublin . The interior design was slightly modified and the car received the new designation of Daewoo Honker 2324 . The car did not differ much from the original version and was available in the same set of options . There were plans for creation of a modernized Daewoo Honker II with either 4x2 or 4x4 drive , but they were called off and instead the factory only modified the external design and continued the production under a new name of Daewoo Honker 2000 . After the bankruptcy of Daewoo , the license was inherited by two companies . Andoria - Mot continued the production in small quantities from 2002 – 2003 , and in 2003 created two modernized versions , both in a hard - top pick - up combination . Intrall Polska , made the Honker from Jan . 2004 - Spring 2007 . In 2004 , Intrall created another model , the off - road car Honker MAX . In addition , in 2004 the Honker saw yet another modification : an armored heavier version Honker Skorpion 3 was created specifically for the Polish Army forces in Iraq . Variants . Honker trucks were produced in the hard - top versions , with a chest carrier and as a pick - up . They used gasoline engines from the FSO Polonez car , Iveco diesel engines ( 2 . 5 dm ³ ) , and from 1997 onwards used the turbo engines Andoria 4CT90 and later 4CTi90 . The truck had a 3 - door body , based on a rigid frame bridges driving the leaf springs . Production . Production models of Honker was low , reaching a maximum level of a few hundred vehicles . In Poznan in 1992 , FSR built 450 autos in 1992 ; 314 autos in 1994 ; and 288 autos in 1995 . FSR production stopped in early 1996 . In mid 1996 Daewoo bought the rights and established Daewoo Motor Poland Sp . Ltd . to produce vehicles . Production resumed in autumn 1996 trials for the assembly of Honkers in Lublin . In both factories , they built only around 20 autos . In 1997 they built 155 autos ; 1998 - 232 autos ; 1999 - about 350 autos ; 2000 - about 200 autos ; 2001 - about 30 - 40 autos ; 2002 - 140 autos ; 2003 - 278 autos ; 2004 - about 490 autos ; 2005 - 177 autos ; 2006 - 245 autos ; 2007 - 35 autos . In the spring of 2007 , production was again suspended . In 2008 , the Ukrainian company DP Naftogazbud Polior was to begin building the Honker again , but never did . In 2009 , Syndyk DMP , the owner of the rights to Honker , sold the company to DZT Tymińscy , which then restarted production of the Honker .