6x6 out in the wilds...Naples Florida

[HAF]

Saw this at a car show in Naples last week. Thought a few driveline photos would be interesting. The portal axels are Humber sized with aGerman twist. Note how power is transferred to rear axel.
They were asking over 900k for this used vehicle.

 

[mog]

Here are some undercarriage photos I took in Berlin at Classic Remise

 

[Man]

It looks pretty strong. Any ideas on the payload capacity? The 4X4 squared is pretty cool too.

 

[charlieaarons]

Don’t know. But I do know that adding a 3rd driving axle to a USA legal U500 might cost $50-100k at the MOST by Paul GmbH of Passau which would add up to a small fraction of $900k and have a very large multiple of GVW (15-21 metric tonnes as opposed to ~ 7 metric tonnes at the most) compared with the 6x6 G series.
Absolutely ridiculous pricing by any objective criteria.
And yes, the U500s do have a comfortable modern cab.

 

[BigDaddyX]

Don’t know. But I do know that adding a 3rd driving axle to a USA legal U500 might cost $50-100k at the MOST by Paul GmbH of Passau which would add up to a small fraction of $900k and have a very large multiple of GVW (15-21 metric tonnes as opposed to ~ 7 metric tonnes at the most) compared with the 6x6 G series.
Absolutely ridiculous pricing by any objective criteria.
And yes, the U500s do have a comfortable modern cab.

yeah exactly. I’d rather have a fully apocalypse ready unimog for less than half of this things price any day.

 

[Yarjammer]

Personally, if I had $1M to blow on a truck I'd rather go for the Brabus 800 Adventure XLP

 

[Christian P.]

Remind me of this one:

2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6

Bid for the chance to own a 2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #38,860.

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[Todd780]

Craziness. Just saw a yellow 4x4 squared the other day. Don't see them often.

Huh. I guess I mispoke. I guess there are two for sale locally:

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[AbleGuy]

Here’s some more...posted here on Expo this week.

10,000km from Minnesota to Cabo and Back in the Green Machine

I have been meaning to post this for a while, but of course when we got back it was a whirlwind of catching up! We took an epic trip from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota to the bottom of Baja and back to Minnesota! just over 10,000 km. The trip started out as being a run at the BajaXL Rally...

expeditionportal.com

 

[Yarjammer]

Maskes sense to remove $16k in fender flares, but why the front clip? With portals it doesn't hang that low...

 

[nbutze]

The black one you see above was at Bill Rader Motorsports. It is the truck from Japan that was on BAT a few months ago that sold for $901k

The owner is having a matte paint protection film wrapped around the whole truck. Then they will put the parts back on.

Also they had to do some differential work and a total service.

Neek's white 6x6 is also at Bill's now getting some upgrades.

 

[nbutze]

The white 6x6 you see for sale in Naples, Florida was built from original parts (an original MB frame) and all components original by Michael Pagger in Austria. They sent a perfect G63 from the states over. Do the frame swap and work then send it back modified. Fun fact, it is where my Green G came from too

 

[mog]

<Disclaimer - I have no direct G-wagon experience) So a question. How is the original equipment/suspension on the factory vehicles? The photos I posted of the G65 6x6 (license plate said G65) in Berlin was a 'Brabus' edition, so lots of awesome carbon fiber exterior bits, and a knockout interior, but as I snooped around the underside, expecting to see uber-trophy-truck shocks, springs, bits, and bobbles, it looked like straight out of the Germany equivalent of the Pepboys (Energiejungen?) catalog. Coil springs with the thickness of my little finger, shocks that looked like they came off a Toyota Corolla, and I was under impressed with the welds, etc. I'm certain the intent of that one was to impress in front of the casino or nightclub not cross the Sahara, but I thought even the stock MB parts would be very impressive. I was expecting to see suspension like that 6x6 on BaT had, not super plain-jane stuff. So was the Berlin Brabus one an anomaly or ??

Update -added photos of welds. The 3rd is from the black BaT 6x6

 

[nbutze]

<Disclaimer - I have no direct G-wagon experience) So a question. How is the original equipment/suspension on the factory vehicles? The photos I posted of the G65 6x6 (license plate said G65) in Berlin was a 'Brabus' edition, so lots of awesome carbon fiber exterior bits, and a knockout interior, but as I snooped around the underside, expecting to see uber-trophy-truck shocks, springs, bits, and bobbles, it looked like straight out of the Germany equivalent of the Pepboys (Energiejungen?) catalog. Coil springs with the thickness of my little finger, shocks that looked like they came off a Toyota Corolla, and I was under impressed with the welds, etc. I'm certain the intent of that one was to impress in front of the casino or nightclub not cross the Sahara, but I thought even the stock MB parts would be very impressive. I was expecting to see suspension like that 6x6 on BaT had, not super plain-jane stuff. So was the Berlin Brabus one an anomaly or ??

The Silver G65 photographed above in Berlin was not made at the factory. You can see they welded the mounts on in a shop and they chinced out on shocks with stock MB shocks not the Ohlins that came on the 6x6 or later what has been upgraded to KW shocks. Look at the welds on the frame of the white one in Naples Florida. You will see this was done at the factory in Graz, likely by a robot.

 

[mog]

The Silver G65 photographed above in Berlin was not made at the factory. You can see they welded the mounts on in a shop and they chinced out on shocks with stock MB shocks not the Ohlins that came on the 6x6 or later what has been upgraded to KW shocks. Look at the welds on the frame of the white one in Naples Florida. You will see this was done at the factory in Graz, likely by a robot.

Thanks! I was guessing the Berlin truck was all show and no go ..... OK, if it was a Brabus engine, 700-800 hp, so lots of straight-line go, but not so much of this