Unimog is an all weather,all terrain and remarkably reliable wheeled vehicle. I hav been using 1.25 ton Unimog in 1984-88 in my youth days. I have love and respect for this wonderful vehicle.
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"review" is a very generous term. He doesnt have a clue what it is so i dont think he can really review it. Its like asking a horse for its opinion on the baseball game being played in front of him.
@@daniel-ino Its the black pipe work on the right hand side coming out of the engine bay. It raises the air intake point for the motor so you can cross really deep water and stop the engine. and then restart. You will notice that the exhaust has a raised outlet just behind the cab.
They are only good for off road. Unless you really need it you shouldn't take it. They add a lot of unsprung mass to the vehicle, wich reduces the on road capabilities.
We had Unimogs in the army. Great go anywhere vehicles with lots of variants. Good to see them still being sold. You can get them surplus. Expensive to run though.
In the South African army we also had alot of variants, things that didn't even look like, or bear the Mercedes name, but you could see the star on the diff and other suspension parts. :) They went where the 6-wheel armoured vehicle couldn't.
@@working2bselfsufficient724 I didn't think you could buy a new Unimog in the U.S. I think they have to be ten or so years old before they can be brought in, I forget why, maybe they don't meet emissions. If they start with a Unimog that's old enough, the camper would be new, just not the truck.
@@bigredc222 You can't buy a brand new one in USA, but someone else can (there's groups that buy them for you outside USA and import them for a small fee). They're $369k from Mercedes plus import n fee to group who handles them. It's not easy but if you have the money it can be done. I'm not 100% sure on the loopholes or how the groups get threw the legalities but they do for a fee.
@@bigredc222 I'd also buy an older one n build a new camper. Can get an older unimog running in USA for $15k and up. Wouldn't cost more than $20k to build a camper box since they arnt huge.
Never sleep under a heavy vehicle, they can sink down and squash the fuck out of you. No tank crew ever sleeps under the vehicle, unless on hard solid concrete.
I off-road a lot down in Baja California and I see a lot of these crazy Unimog owners down at the shore. Usually German guys. Unimogs do have a down side: they **can** get stuck and when they do, who’s gonna yank you out? I mean, they weigh over 15,000 pounds. You’d have to find a giant sequoia to use a winch, or drive some rebar through the entire lithosphere. I saw a Unimog get stuck in deep, deep smooth beach pebbles - like ball bearings. Took another Unimog and a G-Wagen to rescue that monster.
I just put a lift kit in my Prius, (yeah, they make them) and gained 1.5" of ground clearance. If I do that a dozen or more times I'd have the same ground clearance the 'hog has! Love the crew cab.
This is the G Wagen’s big brother, which used to do professional weightlifting until he got outed for steroid use. He never won a race in his life, but he also never used the reverse gear once in his life.
I road in unimugs from 1977 to 1980 during my first hitch in Germany in the Army. This unimug is more capable and looks fun to drive. It's amazing to see how far technology has taken this vehicle.
That's a big tractor enclosed in a truck body. If I would park that next to my silverado 4x4 , it would probably run away and hide. What a amazing truck. Mercedes always impress me G6 3-axle wagon , the X class , etc..... Cool.
What motor and gearbox have, and autonomy and fuel tank capacity, and if the gearbox has to attach accessories such as power take-off for fire pump or drag winch. Very good
If they did a smaller and compact version of the Unimog similiar to the U218, but with less gadgets, and sell it as a tractor, with a price tag near other tractors between 60 to 80hp...it would probably sell like hot cakes.
The Unimog was originally developed as an all-purpose agricultural vehicle by a German engineering bureau in the late 1940s and later taken over by Mercedes. Fun fact: the engineers did decide for 1270 mm (50") of wheel gauge for the first Unimog model as two rows of potatoes would fit in between.
