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i think only th us doesnt talk about the unimog. all european and african countrys know this machine well and appreciate it

It’s not that it’s not talked about, it’s just not available in America. We would love to have it and would use it extensively.

In Germany we say: Where a Unimog gets stuck, you need a tank

No one ever underestimated an unimog…. And it’s kind of technically a tractor

Pavement princesses with lifted pickup trucks crying into their hello kitty pillows after seeing this. 😂

I drive unimogs for a living and I’ve taken them through every terrain you can think of. They’re complete BEASTS

Underrated? it's probably the most well know and respected off road vehicle to ever exist.

A few months ago a family from Germany had the Camper version shipped here to the United States. At a Walmart parking lot they were parked by other RV’s. I talked to them for about a hour, they asked about my Suburban Conversion for off grid life, they showed me around inside with an area just for their dog that had separate areas for sleeping, small stove and a bathroom with a sink and shower. I gave them some suggestions to see when they travel. Great people

as a 4x4 i can confirm that is exactly what i want to become when i grow up

"not talked about"?! Dude, Uni's have a huge cult following, and are well known on every continent, as well as most car and truck enthusiasts. It's talked about!

No body who knows anything about 4x4 would underestimate a Unimog

Underrated? Maybe on planet Mars, till the day one arrives up there.

Nobody underrates a Unimog. A lot of people don't know they exist, but if you know it exist you know what it can do because that is the first thing people tell you about it is it insane off road abilities.

I drove one in the US ARMY. It was classified as a Unimog 419

Had a pleasure of driving one at work and it is orgasmic at how effortlessly it drives through even the roughest terrain. absolute wonder of German engineering 😍

We've had a unimog in the family since i can remember, ex-military long 411, we'd use it to haul lumber down the property, usually 600kg or more, it might only have 32hp but it's never let us down, one of the first cars i ever drove quite easy to drive once you get past the sheer weight of everything (clutch of a racecar, unassisted brakes, very stiff shifter, really heavy steering, and oddly enough a really light throttle both hand and foot). From time to time it gets used more as a receiational vehicle than the unstoppable tool it was designed to be, few things bring the same joy as taking a bed full of scared passengers up a hill most wouldnt want to walk up as you relax and let the machine do its thing, its fun for everyone after the first time though.

In Germany we have a saying about the Unimog: "Where it can't go, you can't get there on foot" 😁

80 years on and off-road - incredible piece of applied engineering

The are pretty nice. A friend got one with an hydraulic arm. Super sick.

It doesnt have much power it just has very good gearing but its monster still

You still have to invent the road and gradient that the Unimog cannot handle!

Absolute workhorse. I'd love to own a classic Unimog here in the states.

What are you talking about... everyone I know in the 4x4 world wants one... everyone I know talks about the Unimog as a eventual life goal.

Underrated and not talked about? Have you been living under a rock for the past 50 years? The Unimog is absolutely legendary, and anyone that isn't aware of how amazing this thing is probably thinks GM hummers make great offroad trucks.

I used to drive one the city bought surplus it had a digging arm with a clam shell bucket and down riggers for stanlizing a snow throwing machine on the front. I called it the German swiss army nife on wheels. Very low gears . I could take a slow walk around it in the lowest gear.

A true legend. And still looks much like it did in '46. The only ones that under rate it are those who don't know it.

a unimog might not be fast. but it WILL NOT stop

Unimogs are basically just tractors dressed up as a pickup truck

Ah yes, German engineering at its finest

Underrated?! It's a legend!

A serious 4x4,80 years of production is not a joke.

They are not underated, they are just not popular in north america due to culture and geography. (Unimogs are kinda tractor slow and tractor expensive)

Love my Mog, only thing i regret is waiting as long as i did to get 1

My dream campervan would be built on a unimog

Defo not underrated maybe in the USA but rest of the world there held in high esteem

I drive in the Belgium army one in 1990 .. and this little beast was already 30 years old!! But I promise you that what the say in this clip is true and more 😁

South Africa used it as a rocket artillery when fighting against Angola in the Border war.

I once saw the official Unimog team at a show in Donnington UK. The drivers all wore matching smart blue uniforms and the test area was difficult medium clay that went up to the axles. The team deliberately got them stuck and winched out or towed out. Nothing stopped these beauties.

This is one of my dream vehicles. I would just plop a pop up camper on it and call it a day.

Unimog is truly the only Mercedes vehicle that I’ve ever dreamt of owning. Definitely not an easy vehicle to acquire in the US. You must either amass a small, disposable fortune, or have the luckiest day of your life to be able to purchase one.

So, it's a Rubber Tired Skidder that Loggers can drive home after work!

Best 4x4 ever! I wish I had one

Damn thing is a Swiss army knife 😂😂😂

Underrated and never talked about? That thing is a legend, every child here in Germany knows its name and even old models are extremely expensive because they are so sought after.

I watched one climb a "set of stairs" in a demonstration! Each step was 4 feet high and the Unimog just walked up with no hesitation! Unbelievable! I think it had something like 18 forward gears and 9 reverse gears!! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

my dad owns an unimog 401 from 1954. It is in the original shape, not a single scratch, he has been working for 12 years to complete this. i think its one of the best vehicles ever made

Since my army days in South Africa, I have been a fan of the Unimog. We were deployed using these trucks. Very strong and reliable.

Well, at work we had a few and some jerk figure out how to get it stuck at Sand. I took another to pull that one out.

In Greece You can see unimogs from the 60s still used by farmers and get immediately sold when the military or other government agencies are Auctioning off their older trucks

I'm more partial to Pinzgauers and Haflingers - but I do find it amusing how Mercedes-Benz is deathly afraid to let the USA know it makes trucks that can work for a living.

Unimogs are so cool I wish they sold them here in the U.S.

In my town there's plenty of them, but most are not locals. European tourist bring them for long expeditions. It says something when shipping a car from Europe to South America and pay the car's price in taxes and temporary permits is still worth it

It's not evident how tall unimogs are until you see one up close. If you're in a normal road car you are looking underneath the front bumper out the windscreen.

Underrated and not talked about enough only in the Americas, Australia and maybe parts of Asia. They are everywhere across Europe, middle east, the poles and Africa.

The Unimog was my favorite Matchbox toy as a kid, had so much fun with that thing.

Unimog has never been underrated

They aren’t popular because it’s a truck that does work of a tractor while costing an arm and a leg. It’s cheaper for US logging companies to buy a fleet of log trucks and a dozer to pull them through the really deep mud when they could get stuck.

Our military had them in Australia. Now they are divesting themselves of Unimog and Landrover. A friend bought one for a ridiculously low price. The up side is that it goes anywhere without adjusting tyre pressures or using a which. The downside is that there’s a hell of a lot of oil in those diffs, portal axles, etc.

Casually throws in rocket-launcher as a possible use.

Its very well rated and talked about. This guy prolly lives under a rock.

I will witg pleasure pay you US $ 100 for every UNIMOG being used in Siberia.

Dont talk too much about them or they’ll triple in price like every other remotly fun car

Maybe I'll be the first to say I'm just learning about this Incredible and amazing vehicle, and even more Impressed by design of that drive Axle!🤯

Bei der Bundeswehr gefahren! Fantastisches Fahrzeug 😊

It's a literal legend of versatility and off-road capabilities.

Not underrated, in Europe everyone knows: If you want to get serious offroad and work capability, there is no other option. Hence why they drive to this day everywhere, even the 1960s models.

We used them in 1980s in the SADF nothing beats them

German farmers laughing because this truck was THE work vehicle that fed western germany well into the 2000s

I want 1 so bad 😂. Last clip pulling 3 trucks up a hill 😂😂😂😂😂

I had one, build it up as camper van, exported it from Germany to India and used it in Ladakh, at the highest roads in the world, Nepal and Rajasthan desert, ....

Way under rated, without a doubt the best 4 wheel drive ever, America should have took purchase of manufacturing contracts for our military instead of the Humvee, map and jtcv.

I need that Unimog with that cannon... Perfect!

Yeah man, this is how babies are made!

Underrated and “not talked about” aren’t usually associated with Unimog lol

You missed the "20 speed Cascade gear box" of the Unimog. Also one of the later models had the steering and foot pedal on a rail. You could change it from a LHD to a RHD in a giffy. Great for those who ply between the UK and France.

My all time favorite 4x4 !

This is the most versatile 4x4 ever made. A friend of mine has one of these here in VT and it’s an absolute BEAST.

The unimog is a powerful tractor. A very capable, dependable, ridiculously good tractor.....

😊🙏 Thank You So Much for the background story of this much loved 4x4! Now we know what UNIMOG means! UNIMOG = Universal-Motor-Gerät ... 🌷🌿🍎🍊🌏✌💜🕊

My 1965 unimog 404 had a factory 90 horsepower, enough power to pull a house is a bit of an overstatement. The diesel models had more torque but powerful they are not. There was a place doing engine swaps in the late 90's saw one with a 350 tuned to 450hp, that one had some real get up and go.

my buddy bought of these in the US for 350 bucks and was a old military's vehicle and was a beast in the woods!! He traded it for a set of duce and a half rear ends!! I miss that little thing!!! My buddy now has a older 1984 Chevy pickup with 54 inch tires, huge lift, just the curls on the springs are 12 inch plus a 8 inch body list plus whatever else the 2-1/2 ton axles and 54" tires add. We made this together but its my friends. we used the power steering and hooked it up to a piston that assists mac truck steering and now you only move the steering wheel inch either way and you dont even feel ruts in trails anymore or any pull from them!!! lots of custom parts made for it to work but all backyard engineered!!! another upgrade we got was a old town truck that had a winch that attaches under the bed and can put front and back!! its got a common 350 v8 with throttle body injection!!! a small group of US worked on this for years!!! My buddy got when he was 15 and we been upgrading and repairing for years, we are now both 40!!! Still runs!!! How many motors have be blown!! a lot!!! twice as many axles!!! Edit!! We would blow transfer cases all the time and we got a trans and transfer case out of a weird 1946 military vehicle and has never broke since!! We would break them like monthly but that 1946 part is invincible!! it bolted right to the Chevy 350!!! Trans and all!!! We custom made all the axles and breaks are on axles!! anyways wanted to share!!!

Mercedes Unimog and Tatra Force- probably 2 best offroad trucks ever made

Everyone knows and loves the unimog. Believe it or not even is Americans Believe it or not. So many ignorant people think that Americans don't know anything about anything that want originally made in the US

Ole 419, I drove one when I was a 12B!

"Not talked about" the crawling community literally talks about it none stop.

I never knew i needed this until just now!😳

In the US even though we hardly have any, they're still criminally underrated

It is the only vehicle to drive across all the Continents and the bearing strait. I want one so badly.

underrated i am not so sure about that every 4x4 enthusiast know exactly what they are

My Grandads brother in German had one.. like a late 60s dark geeen with a huge lift and agro tires off an actual tractor... baddest daily driver ive personally ever seen

That's what always gets me about big offroad trucks, yeah the cab and chassis sit higher off the ground but the axles and differentials still drag their asses way low, therefore defeating the whole point of lifting the truck to begin with. This thing however has much more ground clearance because the engineers thought about that.

Underrated? Huh?

I grew up in a small farmer village and there was one man who had this monster. I was always fascinated by it looks. Cool truck

Great video. More Japanese people need to speak out about this because they won't listen to anyone else. Heck, I don't think they'll even listen to y'al!.

As an American, I would love to have a Unimog. There are not many here though and they're expensive. The Unimog is a multitool and most Americans use purpose-built tools that are far superior in a specific aspect such as a log skidder.

With enough power to pull a house, you know, just in case!!! That is the best line I've ever heard!!!💯 I've never seen one in person but from the videos I've seen this thing is a beast and I would love to have one.😁

When I can buy one, I'm buying one or more.

What do you mean it is underrated??? Seriously! Everyone involved in offroading knows unimogs. The are simply the best.

guy around the corner from my house has one it was decommissioned looks so fucking cool

I work with geotechnical drill rigs built on these. They are amazing. Can go literally anywhere, and outperform track based machines.