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    1989-’03 Laforza

    Jun 29, 2021 2 minutes
    BY MIKE McNESSOR
    PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY HEMMINGS ARCHIVES

    The Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen was still a spartan, military-inspired truck in the late 1980s when Rayton-Fissore S.p.A., of Cherasco, Italy, turned its Magnum 4x4 into a leather-lined, Ford V-8-powered premium luxury sport utility vehicle for the American market. Called the Laforza (which translates to “the

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