Tag: Unimog
G-CLASS HELPS TO SAVE THE WORLD
“A Good Day to Die Hard” is the latest movie in the famous “Die Hard” series with the star studded cast of Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney and Sebastian Koch. The new film will be in cinemas worldwide from 14 February 2013.
MOUNTAIN SHUTTLE
More than 300,000 tourists are drawn each year to Sicily, Italy by the prospect of climbing Mount Etna. The Unimog 5000 is used between May and October each year to carry the streams of tourists from the Etna cable car station at 2500 metres up to the Torre del Filosofo. Here, at 2935 metres above [...]
UNIMOG CONTRA ANDREA
In early 2012, the tropical cyclone “Andrea” brought particular challenges for the Unimog fleet operated out of the Felsenau depot near Feldkirch/Frastanz, Austria which is responsible for road maintenance services on some two-thirds of the roads in the Vorarlberg region.
UNIMOGS HELP FLOOD VICTIMS IN THAILAND
Mercedes-Benz Thailand is helping the Thai government combat the effects of the flood by providing two all-terrain Unimog all-wheel-drive vehicles.
THE ULTIMATE TOY
Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with LEGO to create the biggest TECHNIC model of all time; a 2,048 piece, 1:12-scale, functioning (including a pneumatically operated crane with working gripper arm) Unimog.
4×4 SHUNTER
Road-rail Unimog U 406, built in 1971 and upgraded with Euro 4 emission standards, acts as a railway “engine” when pulling the heavy construction train weighing 60t through the 1.2 kilometre long Cassana Wald Tunne on the San Bernardino Pass.
INSPIRED BY ANTS
Mercedes Benz has a rich background on offroaders and is well known as the maker of legendary rockcrawlers like the Unimog. The Iranian designer Siyamak Rouhi Dehkordi tapped into these traditions with his Hexawheel concept vehicle.
