LANGLEY, B.C. – Out amongst the fields and farmlands, there is a workshop where mighty beasts stand guard. They are huge-wheeled, blunt-nosed, squared-off and ready for anything. This is the home of ...

Generally, we think of altitude mostly when it comes to aircraft. For our wheeled vehicles, they tend to be pretty well tethered to the ground via gravity, that same magical force that also keeps your ...

A pair of Mercedes-Benz Unimogs have reached new heights in Chile with one scaling a volcano and topping out at 6,694 meters (21,961 feet) to set a new high-altitude world record for a wheeled vehicle ...

Perhaps the most capable wheeled vehicle ever built is returning to the country with some of the most challenging terrain in the world. After review by various boards, including branches of ...

"In this gear, the maximum speed is 80 meters per hour," Siegfried Burow tells me. I can hear the U1450's diesel engine making noise, but our forward progress is imperceptible. Again, we're moving at ...

THICK mud blasts over my windscreen like a tidal wave of chocolate milkshake as I plough through 12 FEET of watery muck. This is no ordinary vehicle I’m driving. This is the off-roader that would eat ...

In the world of utilitarian power rangers, Mercedes-Benz’ Unimog and Econic transporter rank up there as two of the toughest, most versatile vehicles available. Mercedes Special Truck division is ...

For 60 years, the Unimog (Universal-Motor-Gerat), has been terrifying young children (and some grown men)--and Mercedes-Benz is proud of that feat. So proud, in fact, that the special trucks unit of ...

The Unimog’s birth was a rather disturbing process. In 1944, Germany was on the pathway of becoming an agrarian country and the 1945 bombing didn’t do much to help the state’s industry. It was this ...

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