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Post by High Sierra Fan on Feb 9, 2022 15:00:05 GMT -8
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Feb 9, 2022 18:33:49 GMT -8
One of my AZ hiking buddies (now living in Colorado Springs has a Unimog for family adventures. His is decidedly less posh than that one. It's more like a 4WD VW bus with built-in beds.
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Post by texasbb on Feb 9, 2022 21:23:15 GMT -8
I'd love to have one of those! Of course, I'd need the world to be a very different place than it actually is to be able to make use of its most appealing features.
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Post by Coolkat on Feb 10, 2022 4:42:48 GMT -8
I have a friend who has a brother who owns one of these things. It's my understanding that it gets used elsewhere but is mainly for trips to Baja California.
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Post by Coolkat on Feb 10, 2022 5:06:52 GMT -8
From the article... Now that is much better than I thought it would be. In rough numbers that is about 11mpg. I wonder how low that goes when traveling rough terrain.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Feb 10, 2022 9:15:59 GMT -8
The FB post describing one based on another chassis brand (a video walk through advert) that led me to this one also had about 11 mpg which did surprise me as well. Impressive for what they mentioned was a 46 ton vehicle!
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Post by driftwoody on Feb 10, 2022 9:51:30 GMT -8
The FB post describing one based on another chassis brand (a video walk through advert) that led me to this one also had about 11 mpg which did surprise me as well. Impressive for what they mentioned was a 46 ton vehicle! With its off road capability, is it fairly gentle on sensitive soils and flora?
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Feb 10, 2022 10:04:26 GMT -8
Traditionally off-road people “air down” their tire pressure in order to increase the contact footprint (and with something that posh odds are it’s a built in system easily done from the drivers seat). So potentially less impactful than a cyclist with a tiny contact tire area I suppose.
The limiting factor, aside from width etc, that I always see with these is they’re so tall they at least to me look very tippy, so I’d be leery of much off-off road.
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Post by Coolkat on Feb 10, 2022 10:14:44 GMT -8
An entertaining history of the Unimog...
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Post by downriver on Oct 24, 2023 11:25:10 GMT -8
Unimogs were used by the Rhodesian and South African armies in the bush in the ‘70s.
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