Canadian Reacts to Mercedes Unimog, the Ultimate OFFROAD machine
2024 ж. 27 Сәу.
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Here is my reaction and commentary to the German Made New Mercedes UNIMOG - Ultimate OFFROAD machine.
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Generations of Germans love the Unimog. It is even used for shunting trains. 🤯
The first Unimog was constructed in 1946, using Daimler-Benz engines; in 1950 the brand was taken over by Daimler-Benz. It was originally designed to be used in agriculture, as multi-use tractor/pickup combination. The Swiss army was the first to use it also for military purposes; for the French army Daimler-Benz designed the 404 series, produced 1955 to 1980. This series was also used by the German Forces after the rearmament in 1955. It is also used by firefighters, forestry operations, road maintenance, snow removal services, mountain farmers ...
Never heard the words Unimog and ASMR together, but it makes sense here.
Basically, the Unimog is a mobile generator with wheels that can go almost wherever it is needed under its own power. It won't do it super comfy, it won't do it super energy efficient or fast, but it will get there if it is even remotely accessible by a wheeled vehicle. Once it reaches its destination it decouples its engine from the drive shaft and connects to up to three external shafts. With these it can power up to three different high torque machines required at the location. Often it can carry them on its own flatbed, and dismount them with an onboard crane. That's the whole idea. That's also the source of the acronym: Universelles Mobiles Gerät= UniMoG = Universal Mobile Tool . "Der Alleskönner" is figuratively "the do-everything guy", but a very literal translation "the do-everything-er".😉
Greetings from Wörth am Rhein, where these beasts are built.
This thing is literally a swiss army knife on wheels. Since it has up to three power takeoffs (front, rear, side) it has a very high flexibility. They are commonly seen as construction and maintenance vehicles, forestry and agriculture and iconic in the blue THW paintwork, which is the German civil and desaster protection. If you need something to be powered on wheels and you need to go where no roads are, Unimog will most likely have a solution.
They don't test the UNIMOG, that's the Unimog experience center in the Unimog Museum in Gaggenau where drivers learn what the Unimog can do takes 2 hours. costs 279 euros, about 410 CDN, but is already booked until the end of November Fun Fact : There is exactly one Unimog that can fly, a garbage truck that collects garbage in a high mountain village, this village is car-free and only the Unimog is allowed to drive there kzhead.info/sun/YKd6e7aOiYuHhHA/bejne.html
The vehicle that makes Americans say: "Okay, this may be a bit excessive."
We had them at the mountain division during my army time (Bundeswehr). These things literally go anywhere. The Unimog still to this day is the vehicle with the best "climbing abilities" in the whole of NATO.
This is what I call a pickup truck! :) Imagine to pick up your kids from school in this beast! You might be the king! :)
"You say what you need, and we build it for you." This is how the Unimog became this universal tool. Over decades the engineers made it better and more universal. Afaik, the only truck you can drive from the left and right seat by sliding steering wheel and pedals 🙂 You also can get a version that drives on streets and train-rails, however you need it.
Universalmotorgerät 😊Unimog in short !
Come to Germany and have a look 😅
I was riding one of these monsters on a track for a motocross world championship race. We had finished the track and wanted to test it. Luckily, the idiot in the brigade had a beer bottle in his mouth. One of his incisors was unsalvageable. It was amazing, he laughed even after the impact. There is no reason to drive such machines slowly.
Unfortunately, my experiences with the Unimog in the Bundeswehr (german army) were not so positive. My comrades and I drove Unimogs in 1985 that were manufactured in 1965 and were old cars. If I wanted to change gears, I needed my co-driver's help or I had to shift gears with my right foot. But that was just a small problem. Due to its design, the Unimog has a high center of gravity. There was a shelter on my Unimog in which there was a very heavy, long and tall radio. The center of gravity was significantly higher than on a Unimog, which did not have to carry such a load. On the first trip out of the barracks with the Unimog, two Unimogs fell over to the right in the first sharp left turn and we didn't find that funny at all. Later on the motorway (Autobahn), the Unimog's handling was also critical. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the Unimog started rocking and when I counter-steered it only got worse. The one thing that helped was not moving the steering wheel. I didn't find that funny, but rather dangerous. The problems were no less off-road because I always had to be careful that my Unimog didn't lean too much. I'm still happy today that I never had an accident with this Unimog...
also a driver of german army Radio-Shack-Unimog in the mid-80´s: Ay, it´s an UNIMOG, always "rockin´ and rolling" - my "VHF-Fernschreib- und Fernsprechfunktrupp" had an offical weight of 10290 kg, alowed maximal weight of the 1967 build (no Diesel, 6123 cm³ gasoline 6 cylinder with 82 hp!) Unimog was only 5700 kg - who cares! I got an ticket from german police cause I exceeded 120 km/h on the autobahn (maximal allowed speed following daimler benz vehicle specifications 75 km/h - maximal allowed speed following german military 85 km/h)... I drove the Unimog through very heavy off-road terrain, in off-road even my heavenly overloaded Unimog was never in danger to "roll- over", but when you drove with 80 km/h on german autobahn and there was an sudden side-wind... that was dangerous. And there was one thing I even dream today of sometimes: The silent jodeling sound of the active "Eberspächer Schwingfeuer-Heizung" of my Unimog on an cold and rainy night of an military exercise in the german woods.... 🥰🤣
1:38 maybe something like a shunting engine for railcars when the stationing of a proper locomotive is to costly
Yeah, these things certainly have their real world "work" applications -- you don't see them on the road, unless they are going from where they are stored to where they are needed. This not an SUV at all -- it's an actual "utility vehicle", not a fake one...
Arnold Schwarzenegger had one for a long time and i think it was auctioned this year ( a bright red one)
We have a Unimog Museum near by... 🙂 Greetings from Germany / Karlsruhe
So cool!
search for humvee vs. unimog. nice to watch
You are a icehockey fan by your icehockey team? I've seen your jersey. Our ice hockey team recently won the runner-up title in the first German ice hockey league (DEL). Unfortunately we lost against Eisbären Berlin.
Unimog can pull on railway 6 cargo cars / wagons.
It's very common everywhere in Germany.
But where is the license-plate from Germersheim?
Arnold Schwarzenegger hat einen Unimog. ;)
Der Alleskönner = The can-do-everything.
Moin!
I loved my old Unimog - but all modern Unimog´s have an heavy design flaw: They are too high! Even without roof-lights ond over-roll-protection-bars added - they are always more then 9 feet high - means: They dont fit in any standard "drive through" or "drive in"! Not McDo, not BurgerKing, not Pizza Hut... how is it possible that the highly paid super educated engeneers at Mercedes Benz Daimler have overseen such an important feature... 😪🤪