Behold: the 2004 Mercedes Benz Unimog U500 – one of the best and toughest trucks on the planet.
Built by Daimler-Benz (and subsequently Mercedes-Benz) since 1948, the Unimog has performed heavy duty work in various guises from military to farm service and this late model has been extensively modified.
To wit: a crew cab in place of the normal two seater cab, the 3-way tilting bed from a short wheelbase Unimog, a custom rollbar, LED lighting rig and a huge 6.4-litre diesel inline six with eight-speed manual transmission driving all four wheels via portal axles to maximize ground clearance.
In short, a landscape gardener’s Rolls Royce.
Sold for €181,000.
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That thing is bigger than my front garden! I could nearly park it over my own car, with that clearance!
My thing is bigger than your front garden
Barring the Citroen Picasso windscreen, Thorg want pretty truck!!!
Mogs ARE the best utility trucks.
no argument. nothing comes close. they’ll go thru anything. a twisty axled genius crossed with a Swiss Army knife. personally I prefer the older 90’s boxy shaped ones the ESB used to have. but I’ll have that newer fancy one too.
they are also very interesting from the VRT, tax & insurance angle. I know of lads who’ve successfully argued they are farm machinery.
a brilliant iconic product
Is the flatbed not a bit small or disproportionate though, even if you take off that giant tyre from the rack?…
Seems like overkill and impractical but maybe a bit of fun if it goes past 120kmph and we’ve no chance of reversing the climate crisis..
:-J