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A Unimog would be very cool, not to mention a few of the many trail bikes!
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A Unimog would be very cool, not to mention a few of the many trail bikes!
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I'm not a great fan of the Unimogs in the Oz army, they still have tyre shredding problems at highway speeds - hence the reason you see Unimog convoys stopped every hour or so to get the tyre temps down.
Another thing is their price - I was working for Isuzu when the Unimog contract was let to Mercedes, and the army could have bought four Isuzu 4x4 trucks (with higher carrying capacity) for every Unimog they bought, but as usual the Army bought on the basis of the 1% off road usage rather than the 99% of road usage. I had to demonstrate an Isuzu 4 tonner and it went everywhere the Unimog went at Puckapunyl without step axles and diff locks. Still we sold hundreds into the rural fire brigades and councils as the cabs were easily fire proofed and the vehilces were rated for 4 tonnes payload offroad.
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G'day Rog,
Thats an odd one with regard to the tyres, obviously poor tyre choice?
Cant say I've had a thing to do with either vehicles although and simply from a visual point of view the Unimog looks extremly capable, more to the point if they can be had cheap! Seen a few in Germany, all decked out and dont they look a treat! Havn't a clue what they would be worth either!
Cheers Dave
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The tyres had to be made locally to meet the local content $value in the contract, maybe they still are.
I know a guy who worked for British Leyland when the army let the contract for the SIII Landrovers, that was another debacle caused by the procurement guys. The testing and assessment was based on the four cylinder engine as the 5 cylinder was known to overheat in high temps. Some plonker in the Army's purchasing department decided that the four cylinder engine was too small and ordered the five cylinder engine instead. According to BL they queried the choice and pointed out that they had only offered the 4 cyl. They were over ruled by the purchasing guys and the unreliabilty of the 5 cyl engine gave the Landrover an appalling reputation. Pretty well killed off its dominance in the market place.
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