Unimog
Unimog Shunts Construction Equipment by Rail through Swiss Alpine Tunnel
Dienstag, 10.August 2010According to Rudolf Dieterle, who is in charge of the Swiss Road Works Department (Astra) and its many tunnels, Swiss road tunnels are among the safest worldwide.
In spite of this, Astra is well aware that 126 of the overall 220 national road tunnels do not yet come up to the latest safety standards, or [...]
Out into the big wide world with the Unimog
Mittwoch, 26.Mai 2010An expedition camper based on the Mercedes-Benz Unimog – the dream of every bona fide globetrotter. At this year’s “Abenteuer & Allrad”, Europe’s largest off-road vehicle show, the expedition camper will be on display in Bad Kissingen from 3 to 6 June 2010.
Michael Bocklet from Koblenz and his team have built a fully fledged go-anywhere [...]
Mercedes-Benz Unimog is 2010 Cross-Country Vehicle of the Year
Mittwoch, 3.Februar 2010For the sixth time running, readers of “Off Road” magazine have voted the Mercedes-Benz Unimog the year’s best cross-country vehicle in the “Special-Purpose Vehicles” category.
The Unimog picked up the title of “2010 Cross-Country Vehicle of the Year – Special-Purpose Vehicles Category” after the December issue of the respected Munich-based all-wheel-drive magazine invited readers to [...]
G-Class, M-Class and Unimog win awards in the “Off Road” readers’ vote
Mittwoch, 3.Februar 2010Mercedes-Benz was among the most successful brands in the readers’ vote for the “Off-roader of the Year 2010″ held by the motoring magazine “Off Road”.
Within the portfolio the legendary G-Class was even able to notch up a double success: it won first place in the “Luxury off-roader” category, while the special EDITION.PUR model, which [...]
Mercedes-Benz Econic with natural gas drive system
Mittwoch, 25.November 2009The Mercedes-Benz Econic NGT is an environmentally friendly vehicle designed specifically for municipal operations, garbage collection, and short-range distribution. Thanks to its low-emission drive system it helps to keep inner cities clean and quiet.
Operation with biogas is particularly environmentally friendly, because it is CO2-neutral. This is the case, for example, in Stockholm, where the international [...]
Mercedes-Benz Fire & Rescue impresses the specialists
Mittwoch, 4.November 2009International vehicle specialists from the bodybuilding sector for firefighting vehicles recently came together for a two-day event to find out about new products from the special-purpose vehicles product unit at Mercedes-Benz. The focus was on the different Unimog model series, the new all-wheel drive Zetros truck and the Econic with its low and high cab [...]
Two unusual oldtimers – combined Unimog age of more than 100 years
Dienstag, 29.September 2009The Unimog, the most versatile product in the Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle range, amply demonstrates the creative prescience of the automobile engineers at Daimler AG.
The very first design draft for the Unimog dating from September 1945 already features installation spaces for mowing equipment, a plough, a load platform and a fitting for trailer operation. Today Unimog [...]
The Unimog: a real all-rounder
Donnerstag, 3.September 2009Germany was in a parlous state after the Second World War, and for a time there was even a serious possibility that the Morgenthau Plan might actually be implemented to turn the country into an agrarian state.
This background lent a very special importance to the Unimog project, which was launched in the immediate post-war period. [...]
A long tradition of traction: All-wheel-drive vehicles from Mercedes-Benz
Freitag, 31.Juli 2009The first all-wheel-drive car for everyday use was built by Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) in 1907. The “Dernburg-Wagen” even featured all-wheel steering. It was named after the then Secretary of State of the Colonial Office, Bernhard Dernburg, who clocked up a high mileage in the vehicle in Africa in 1908.
In fact the all-wheel-drive history of the [...]