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Mercedes Unimog Overlander?

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2016 14:08:14 No.950245 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>950495 >>950559 >>958289 >>965678 >>971585 >>971944 >>972547

I saw one of these beasts in a campground in Colorado. The German owner said he had shipped in into the US by boat after traveling in South America. It's seems like it's more for crossing the Sahara than off-roading in the US. Anybody know anything about them?

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 04:04:51 No.950487 Report

Quoted By: >>955161

Off-roading in the US is generally a sport.

Off-roading in most other places is generally just what you have to do to get from a to b.

Those are not specifically for Sahara crossing and even then that doesn't seem kitted for it at all.

Terrain in certain parts of the US can resemble terrain in other temperate countries which the unimog is primarily used.

It all depends on your purpose.

Eg. If you want to go mudding then why would you spend all that money on importing a unimog and not some beater half ton and throw super swampers and diff locks on it?

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 04:15:36 No.950495 Report

Quoted By: >>950608 >>953293 >>953330

>>950245

The weight alone on those things makes them not particularly great off road compared to a lot of other vehicles. If you're using it as kind of an overgrown camper it's fine I guess, but there are much better vehicles for the purpose.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 07:20:47 No.950545 Report

Quoted By: >>950558 >>953127 >>953288

Unimog means universal motor gadget.
It's not a fun vehicle. Its a serious workhorse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q687KmHWPA4

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 07:52:30 No.950558 Report

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>>950545
>that heavy breathing
>that moan
what the fuck

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 07:57:03 No.950559 Report

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>>950245
They are amazingly popular in Europe. I see them all the time. Most all of them are converted to some kind of /out/ or SHTF /k/ vehicle.

For me it's a toss up of owning one of these or a pre-Discovery 4-door Land Rover. Both have plentiful spare parts support and both can be serviced out in the middle of nowhere.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 07:58:52 No.950560 Report

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>>950558
>Cum back after your shift bby, and plow my wet little Unimog

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2016 13:47:33 No.950608 Report

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>>950495
OP: In talking to the owner, he told me that he was in the area because there was only one mechanic in the entire US who could work on a Unimog and that was in La Junta, Colorado. That's a small town of about 7500 near the New Mexico border. I know some expedition-type tour companies use rigs like that, but for one guy it seems a bit much. ]

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Anonymous Fri 06 May 2016 19:13:41 No.953127 Report

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>>950545
>Gotta get all of this snow outta the way so I can make my sorely-needed weekly snow delivery.

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Anonymous Fri 06 May 2016 19:36:08 No.953131 Report

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>>950608

The owner is an idiot, or he only wants 'certified' monkies to work on it.

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 10:14:19 No.953288 Report

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>>950545
Traffic authority's tramway quick response monster truck.

I've wondered why they deemed it necessary to own this instead of a normal van like they used to, but maybe it's because of the reduction gear so it can be used for towing.

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 10:39:27 No.953293 Report

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>>950495
You're fucking retarded. Those things are some of the best offroad vehicles money can buy. Along with old defenders and Toyota's they're pretty much the only vehicle that is Africa-ready.

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 12:00:13 No.953308 Report

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UNIMOG towing a tram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVuebAhj0Lo

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 12:25:35 No.953311 Report

Quoted By: >>953312

Choo choo.
It's a tractor disguised a as a truck. PTO both ends and an infinite selection of toys to drive from them.
Not bad if a bit agricultural if you need a DD.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 12:28:46 No.953312 Report

Quoted By: >>953313 >>953398

>>953311
>not bad if you need a DD
enjoy going broke on gas and not reaching/barely reaching highway speed

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 12:36:40 No.953313 Report

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>>953312
Your DD and my DD are clearly operating in different locations. :)

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 14:36:36 No.953330 Report

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>>950495
Their entire purpose from the outset was to work off road. They excel at it. They've won Dakar plenty of times and were used extensively as the support vehicles. To claim they're "not particularly great off road" displays a level of ignorance of which you'd probably have been better off keeping your whore mouth shut.

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 20:34:57 No.953398 Report

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>>953312
>enjoy going broke on gas
Why would you run it on gas and not diesel? That sounds like something retarded only an American would think of.

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 21:55:58 No.953415 Report

Quoted By: >>953449 >>957874

>>953398
>enjoy going broke on diesel
I'm a yurogfag so here diesel costs less than in america, but still, it's plenty expensive for such a fuel guzzler.
Unless you cheat with agricultural diesel, but that's illegal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2016 22:33:37 No.953449 Report

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>>953415
100 km/20 litres empty at the vehicle's top speed doesn't seem bad for a such vehicle. Your average American pickup truck is going to have worse fuel economics than that.

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Anonymous Thu 12 May 2016 13:37:09 No.955161 Report

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>>950487
Nice fatpost

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2016 06:25:46 No.957825 Report

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to get this thread back on track

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2016 06:41:59 No.957827 Report

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>>955161

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Anonymous Fri 20 May 2016 10:49:17 No.957874 Report

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>>953415
>I'm a yurogfag so here diesel costs less than in america
Really, I thought the prices for diesel and petrol are almost identical in the US?

In some locations of eurofaggotry diesel is taxed more leniently, but then there also is a special diesel vehicle tax that maybe quite stringent.

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Anonymous Sat 21 May 2016 10:32:04 No.958288 Report

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>>957825
That's pretty sick

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 May 2016 10:35:38 No.958289 Report

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>>950245
cool, my stepdad let me drive his unimog when I was 12, later when I was in the army I drove Unimogs again. Overhere (in Germany) they are utility rather than sports vehicles.

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Anonymous Wed 25 May 2016 14:40:45 No.960123 Report

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 07:25:32 No.962584 Report

Quoted By: >>962622 >>969423

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 12:25:22 No.962622 Report

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>>962584

>tfw the babby version is still pretty big.

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 14:40:21 No.962646 Report

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Babby's First Unimog.

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 17:17:47 No.962684 Report

Quoted By: >>965706

>UNIMOG
>not godtier offroad

Stop being dumb please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INxkz6UcNoE

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Anonymous Tue 07 Jun 2016 17:02:36 No.965509 Report

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Anonymous Tue 07 Jun 2016 19:38:52 No.965560 Report

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>>965509
are those all snorkels? wtf am i looking at?

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jun 2016 02:57:17 No.965678 Report

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>>950245
Was it yellow? kept running into a german couple in one of these while bike touring 2014

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jun 2016 03:42:46 No.965706 Report

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>>962684

> pic

Aww, it's cute! It looks like a puppy getting up on its hind legs.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Jun 2016 07:09:33 No.969423 Report

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>>962584

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jun 2016 10:36:40 No.971582 Report

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jun 2016 10:46:15 No.971585 Report

Quoted By: >>971622

>>950245
Ive been in one. It was just the tray-back model and it was gutless. If you want to have fun off roading I do not recommend one of these. 30 degree gravel hill and the pointless bloody thing just stalled.

source: Australian

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jun 2016 14:01:24 No.971622 Report

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>>971585
I understand a Unimog only has 250 hp. My Ford Escape has 260 hp and it's a small SUV. However, the Unimogs have either 8 or 10 gears including some "crawler" gears that should get you anywhere you have traction. If you were in one that stalled, then I would wonder about the the skill of the driver.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jun 2016 07:12:56 No.971862 Report

Quoted By: >>971893 >>973439

I bumped into one on a ride the other day. Looked set up as a camper. Don't see them often stateside.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jun 2016 10:45:40 No.971893 Report

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>>971862
That Look tho!

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jun 2016 15:02:09 No.971944 Report

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>>950245
>Driving around in the US with an Euskirchen number plate

>>>/o/

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>>>/o/ Sat 25 Jun 2016 17:08:36 No.972547 Report

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>>950245
Fuck off downtuber

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Anonymous Mon 27 Jun 2016 23:38:42 No.973384 Report

Quoted By: >>973406

I saw this in Zion National Park. It might be difficult to see the picture but it looks like they shipped it over from France and have been drawing a map of where they visited as they moved from Canada through the United States. I thought it was pretty neat.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jun 2016 01:03:53 No.973406 Report

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>>973384
the truck is awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jun 2016 01:11:06 No.973408 Report

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>>957825
That is adorable

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jun 2016 03:50:18 No.973439 Report

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>>971862
CRIKEY
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Anonymous Tue 28 Jun 2016 08:29:23 No.973492 Report

Quoted By: >>973493

>>953288
It's a poplar utility truck for military across the globe

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jun 2016 08:43:39 No.973493 Report

Quoted By: >>973738

>>973492
Paramilitary organization named "Helsinki regional transportation authority",

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Anonymous Tue 28 Jun 2016 21:52:55 No.973738 Report

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>>973493
I ain't messing wit h them boys. They sound tough.

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