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MUSSO muscle

Ssangyong may sound familiar to you, and you may have even have heard of a Ssangyong Musso, but perhaps remember it as a 4WD wagon and not a 4WD ute? That’s because the first Ssangyong to appear in Australia (in 1996) was a Musso and it was indeed a wagon, and at the time sold via Mercedes-Benz dealers. Some owners even took off the Ssangyong badges and replaced them with a Mercedes three-pointed star, perhaps to indicate the excellent Mercedes-Benz straight six under the bonnet.

If all that sounds confusing, it is, and a reflection of Ssangyong’s history here in Australia and more broadly. Ssangyong has roots back to

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