Here are some pics of the Unimog we had at our shop today. We are a dealer and they were demoing it to us. I got to drive it around. Drives great at 70 mph. It rides smoother than my 1/2 ton on the road too. This thing kicked A$$. Enjoy.

#2 I think the coolest thing was when we moved the steering wheel from one side to the other. It was the coolest thing ever.

i think they are a little funny looking, but if i had the maney o would definitly buy one instead of a few other rigs i can think of.

BTW how did you like shifting the tranny??

mmm unimog

It takes some getting used to. I had some trouble remembering to push the clutch in all the way. It was a change from floating the gears on the bigger trucks. It was cool though. The working and crawler gears were cool. They said ti would go as slow as 274 ft/ hr!:D Great crawl ratio.

yup im used to the regular ol' eaton fuller trannies too,the shifter in the mog is way cool, hell the whole truck is really somethin. i was privilaged to do a little test drive as well about 4 yrs ago, dont know if they were brand new or just relatively, went down the interstate a few miles and drove around on an old CAT test facility outside the city. other than the rig just being so huge it was real easy to maeuver.

went to the tulare world ag expo today and sat in three of them. all i can say is daaamn! the were nice. they started at 90K though. :(

1300 series, uhmmmm yummie!:)

Originally posted by willymutt
It takes some getting used to. I had some trouble remembering to push the clutch in all the way. It was a change from floating the gears on the bigger trucks. It was cool though. The working and crawler gears were cool. They said ti would go as slow as 274 ft/ hr!:D Great crawl ratio.

Speaking of that, what is the actual crawl ratio?

Our army has a huge fleet of them.

They cop a flogging (like most fleet vehicles)

but the axles hold up fine :eek:

What's the load capacity on one of these? The guys from work are wanting to buy a few and make bucket trucks out of them.

ovrroks nabbed a few pics from a local stealership
http://www.mntoyx4.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1074028199.jpg
http://www.mntoyx4.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1074028279.jpg

What does a new one of those go for anyway???

Not exactly as new unimogs as in this thread, but here's some nice unimog action. (Yes, I might have posted this sometime before)

"Unimog Commercial:
U1550L
U1550L / 37
U2150L / 38
U2459L / 6x6"

2-7 ton trucks ;)

Dunno what year this commercial are, but pretty old..

Its mpg-format (352x288, good quality) and weights in at 109Mb / 11 minutes

http://www.poff.org/filmer/unimog_-_uxx50l_-_series.mpg

http://www.poff.org/filmer/previews/unimog_-_uxx50l_-_series.jpg