I could see giving teams "mules" so they could get supplies into areas inaccessible to MPV's but I cannot see them being issued in lieu of actual vehicles. The cost would still be high but the utility would be far less. If you wanted to see this happen I would make it a one-off - destroy the MPV's and leave only the mule as quasi-transport.
Heck, maybe the mule isn't even designed for that purpose, perhaps it is just a self-propelled fusion reactor that happens to have some excess carrying capacity.
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