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    Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions

    2009 Mercedes G55 AMG, For When Restraint Is Just Buying One
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    Unless he's got a really, really rugged delivery route, I would think that the florist would be better served by an E Klasse Touring 4matic (the one with the trick slide-out load floor in the rear).


    That being said, perhaps he wanted to use the G-Wagon after-hours as a ride to his Leather-and-Levi club get-togethers...

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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    See my sig.


    The G is one of my all time favorite cars. cSee several special versions below. There is also a 6 wheel version somewhere, but I cant find a picture right now.



    G-Class "Grizzly"





    And some random pictures






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    Image of ptmeyer84 ptmeyer84
    02/16/09

    @Schm-san, SHO-time, fo-SHO.: The first one resembles a Geo Tracker, but without the Geo inherent shittyness.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    02/16/09

    @ptmeyer84 - Now with more fatherness!: I agree with that statement. The G-Cabs go for a very un-Geo like $100k+, which I think is way too expensive.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    G-wagens are nice. Why take chances? Just go for the Unimog
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    The 1st-gen G-wagen is probably the ultimate combination of everything Mercedes-Benz used to do right -- unparalleled off-road capability, brick-shithouse reliability, and it's so-ugly-it's-cute!
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    I'd definitely rock the panel version in the lead picture if it had the OM617 5-cylinder diesel. Then I could start my own delivery business: Bruce Express.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    02/16/09

    @Tomsk is all about Murlopnik weekends!: I agree. The windowless, two door panel is the tastiest of the bunch, with so much of what makes the G-wagen cool, and none of what makes us roll our eyes.
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    Image of Armand Armand
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    I see G-Wagens carrying kids to soccer practice sometimes, and it makes me sad inside. Mercedes spent all that time designing an uber-ute, and then some tool buys one for his wife so that she can pretend their family is a NATO special ops team.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    I'm quite close to a Canadian Forces base, so I see G-wagens all the time. They just look... right somehow, in full military garb. Like they're happy trucks, because that's what they were fucking made for, not for ferrying around a bleach-blonde trophy wife with synthetic breasts.
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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    02/16/09

    @Deartháir is already looking forward to the next Murilopnik: Can't I have both?
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    02/16/09

    @Gearhead_42: @SlowMo: Fair enough, point taken. I, too, would like to have both.


    I just don't want the G-wagen to be allowed to be driven by the trophy-wife. It's a fucking military vehicle. It belongs in the middle of fucking nowhere, pulling itself out of bogs with a winch, not parked outside of a nail salon.

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    Image of killerknut killerknut
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    How, on earth, could I forget this picture?


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    Image of Armand Armand
    02/16/09

    @killerknut: Congratulations, you just made me a G-Wagen fan.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    ...bullet-proof, open-air Mercedes G500.


    Wow, God must have helped with the design of that one.


    I would definitely not turn down a G-wagon. And my wife would think its more "practical" with its 4 doors.

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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    I belive #2 would be a G-page, considering the former Chrysler connection and all.


    So when to we get something on the other famous M-B truck, the UNIMOG?

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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    The G-truck reminds me of the yet-unbuilt Jeep Scrambler. I can't, for the life of me, understand what's holding that process up. Does Chrysler NOT want a profitable vehicle to sell?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/16/09

    @Timtoolman, now with power tools!: Dude, Sebring. Think of the Sebring.
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    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions




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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    02/16/09

    @sos10: The first two are OK, but the last one...no. Just...no.
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    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    Hoo, boy. Someone's making some wallpapers when he gets home!
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    Oh thank you, Matt, for finally hitting my G spot!


    "Matt <3-my-G"...

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    02/16/09

    In reply to Mercedes G-Wagen Turns 30: The 11 Best Special Versions
    I like how G-PUR sounds like "Jeeper". It's made for off-roading, right? So...
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