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BIGGER IS BETTER

What’s on your bucket list of 4x4 and off-road vehicles to drive? A classic LandCruiser maybe? An AMG-G63 6x6 perhaps? What about a Bushmaster? Any takers for a Rolls-Royce Cullinan or Lamborghini LM002?

Classics, exotics or just downright unstoppable, these are the vehicles off road that dreams are made of and most of us will never have the opportunity to climb behind the wheel of them. The venerable Mercedes-Benz Unimog fits in to all of those categories: classic, exotic and damn near unstoppable, so you can imagine my smile when offered a drive of the latest Mog.

CRAFTING A CLASSIC

The Unimog has been in production for more than 70 years. It was conceived as a vehicle that could do the job of a tractor, a truck and farm equipment. It

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