The Unimog Was Built to Straddle Two Rows of Potatoes (and Ended Up Crossing Deserts) Jeremy Clarkson once drove a Unimog through a brick wall on Top Gear and seemed genuinely surprised when the wall lost. That’s the Unimog in one image: a vehicle so absurdly overbuilt that demolishing a house feels like a Tuesday. … Read more
Mercedes W196: The Machine That Thought Like Fangio This site told you about the man. Now it’s time for the machine. When this site covered Fangio, the line was that he made the car good, that he didn’t depend on the machine, that the talent lived in him. And it’s true. But it would be … Read more
SLR Stirling Moss: The Goodbye That Beat Everyone by a Decade Some cars close a chapter. A rare few close it so well that, without meaning to, they open the next one. The SLR Stirling Moss is one of those. It’s the final page of a story this site has been telling in instalments. The … Read more
Mercedes SLR 722: The SLR That Finally Stopped Arguing With Itself There is a clip somewhere of Chris Harris talking about the SLR McLaren, and you can see the conflict on his face. He respects the car. He just can’t quite love it. And he’s not alone. For years the SLR was the supercar nobody … Read more
Vision EQXX: Everyone bragged about horsepower. Mercedes drove 750 miles on 201 and won There are two ways to impress someone with a car. The easy way and the hard way. The easy way is big numbers. A thousand horsepower, two thousand, nought to sixty in under two seconds — figures that fit in a … Read more
G-Class: The most expensive military truck on Earth is sold at your local Mercedes dealer The German Army pays Mercedes-Benz roughly €224,000 per unit for the new Wolf 2 — the latest military Geländewagen, the one that has to start in -34°C in a Polish forest, ford rivers, climb 100% gradients, and keep four soldiers … Read more
The V16 Goldfisch: BMW’s Secret Engine That Forced Mercedes to Build 85 Prototypes in Response Most automotive readers know the headlines on this one. A brown BMW 750iL with science-fiction air scoops behind the rear wheels and the radiators stuffed into the boot, hidden in BMW Classic’s warehouse for decades, finally rolled out at Techno-Classica … Read more
MAYBACH: THE BRAND THAT HAS DIED THREE TIMES AND KEEPS COMING BACK There are brands that fail and disappear. And there are brands that fail, disappear, come back, fail again, disappear again, and yet someone in a boardroom says: “But this time it’s going to work.” That brand is Maybach. And the most twisted part … Read more
