RE: Mercedes Unimog: A real-life Tonka toy

[IanH755]

We killed the last one in RAF service after a twonk drove it into a hangar writing it off whilst we were in Basra, Iraq around early '08. We had to swap to the much more capable JCB Fast-Trakc 2 (which had been around for about 10 years by then) but it never had the "personality" of the Unimog.

[Wammer]

russell_ram said:

Leins said:

Also reminds me I've these Tamiyas to build too. Christmas task now I think:

Nice, I keep thinking I should get a Mog shell for mine. The CR-01 chassis is massively capable out the box.



A 'few' upgrades on mine though.

Wow looks impressive what upgrades have you done?

[Quirrel]

Saw a few Unimogs out in mongolia where they were built for the steppes.

However I will see your Unimog and raise you a Mercedes Zetro - met the owners of these two - I believe a million USD or so per truck, but that is in a country where I was shown a custom baby blue, with custom stitched baby blue interior brabus G Wagen biturbo v12 (maybe v8 but sure v12) that cost 500K USD imported.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIFIutr3e3Q

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a18745009/zetros...

Edited by Quirrel on Friday 4th January 14:55