Mercedes-Benz G4: The Six-Wheeler Hitler Handed Franco Three axles, six wheels, and drive going only to the back. The front axle of the Mercedes-Benz G4 steered the car but drove nothing: it got no power at all. It was sold as the off-roader of the Nazi high command, and when Franco took it hunting outside … Read more
Software Defined Vehicle: The Judgment Day Car It arrives naked, at night, inside a ball of light that burns a circle into the pavement. It walks up to some guys drinking at an overlook and asks for their clothes. One of them laughs. Ten seconds later one is dead and the other is running. What … Read more
German Auto Industry Crisis: The Hangover, Wolfsburg Edition The suite is destroyed. There’s a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, a mattress speared on a statue outside, and a stolen LVPD cruiser sitting in the valet lane. Four guys on the floor, none of them remember anything, one is missing a tooth, … Read more
Mercedes-Benz T80: The Six-Wheeled Nazi Speed Machine Porsche Designed That Never Turned a Wheel Walk into the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart and you’ll find a black car nearly 27 feet long. Three axles, six wheels, two small stubby wings, an aluminum body built by an aircraft plant. No engine in the bay. No odometer to … Read more
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
