2011 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U4000 / U5000
The 2011 Dakar Rally is scheduled for January 1st – 16th and you need to start preparing your mode of transportation immediately. We would like to recommend the 2011 Mercedes-Benz Unimog for your vehicle of choice. The Unimog is technically considered a commercial vehicle but anyone who has had the privilege of driving one knows they are unlike any commercial truck sold here in The States. They are to the Europeans what a full size 4wd 1-ton truck is to us Americans… except, they are bigger, stronger, and tougher in just about every way. They are built to climb 45 degree grades with a full load, cross rivers (they come from the factory with a snorkel kit), and are equipped with terrain adapting tire pressure regulators. The front and rear axles have a full 30 degrees of travel as well as torque interruption sensing automatic differential lockers to make sure all four wheels are turning when the terrain demands it. If you want one of these monsters you’re going to have to import it in from Germany. But if you have the kind of money it takes to race Dakar, that probably doesn’t matter very much.
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