Unimog Club UK

As amazing as these newer machines are, it really does bother me how Mercedes have decided to play around with the Unimog. For 50+ years they have been the same design - one truck that can be adapted to do whatever is needed. You could buy a U1400 or 1450 for example with a linkage, PTO's etc and use it on the farm or you could buy the same truck without all these bits to use as a heavy duty hauler. They were all great off road.

Just recently we seem to be seeing this new junk (pardon my lack of respect for it!) which can either be a heavy duty off road truck with no linkage etc or a model that is a bit second rate off road but can run all the tools you could ever wish to run. So where does the guy who wants to haul timber out of a wood stand? He can have the truck that can carry all the logs he will ever need to but with no option for a chipper, timber winch or topper etc, or the implement carrier which could do all of that if only it could make it through the rough to the job....

Mercedes have forgotten what Unimog actually means. They are now Mogs - the Uni bit has all but disappeared and it's very sad. Why they couldn't offer the Zetros as the truck and make a proper Unimog for doing Unimog work I'll never know?!