It's for different terrain so it can get through them without the need of getting out yourself and swapping the tires. Aside from being able to bring 7 tons around, it has a variable setting. It's for off-road climbing, not for specific speeds for specific turns on the circuit.Īnd the tires are on a league of its own. And if high numbers seems to be it's specialty, it's got both an 8 speed automatic and a 6 speed reverse.
Powered by a 5.1-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder diesel, the 7 ton monster is carried by 230 horsepower and a whopping 663 foot pounds of torque. In fact, with it's persistent presence that beats even the original MINI, the Unimog has a museum that showcases its past in Gaggenau.īut now let's go to this iteration of the Unimog, known as the U5023. It even competed and won in Dakar, twice.Īnd all this versatility means one can order a Unimog and spec it to such a specific way. And the competitions vary, but they come together as the kind of racing you see for this size of machine: down and dirty.
what's this? Racing? Oh yes, it's got racing history too. Things like fire fighting, military, rail train maintenance (yes, it's also a train, choo choo), forest rangers, snow ploughs, construction, and. I'm no German, but I can think of Unimogs coming in as a semi-staple in German day to day activities and emergencies. The Unimog would go around this disadvantage, and develop over time their abilities to travel in harsh terrain and off-road situations. But despite it's big bed at the back and the clearance it's got, it's not better when it comes to how much load it can carry compared to the usual heavy load truck. While it's made for industrial and agricultural purposes after the 2nd world war, one can say the Unimog's original intent was to be a heavy duty truck that's both more road worthy and faster than the usual tractor. To be honest, the words that I know mainly in that language aside from cars come from Downfall parodies. Okay, not exactly hard, and I did have to look up 'gerat'. If my German memory serves, this means universal motor device. One thing I quite like researching this mammoth is that the car's name is an acronym, coming from the words: Universal- Motor- Gerat”.
Born as Mercedes' way of saying they need a heavy duty off-roading machine, the Unimog started off as part of Daimler-Benz, sold under the Mercedes name until 1951.
Of all the cars we can call a safari, the Unimog's most definitely the elephant in the room. I wonder what kind of smoke were they having a sniff in when they thought this can compete with supercars. And now: the sole representation of Forza's BIG in full shoutycaps.
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