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![]() 03/29/2016 at 20:35 |
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I could do without the chrome peasant-catcher, but I’ll never not love these. What a perfectly designed automobile.
![]() 03/29/2016 at 20:39 |
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It’s a box full of antiquated parts. Overdesigned and barbaric. But then I do go on ....
![]() 03/29/2016 at 20:45 |
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Hey, my old neighborhood!
![]() 03/29/2016 at 20:56 |
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I want to hate it! I want to hate it so so very bad. I cannot hate it.
![]() 03/29/2016 at 21:02 |
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me gusta
![]() 03/29/2016 at 21:51 |
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Isn’t that Brad Pitt?
![]() 03/29/2016 at 22:07 |
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Every vehicle over $80k that isn’t a sports car needs a peasant-catcher.
![]() 03/29/2016 at 22:08 |
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It’s a box full of antiquated parts. Overdesigned and barbaric.
That’s part of what makes it brilliant. It’s a Soviet bunker with a giant snarling V8.
![]() 03/29/2016 at 22:09 |
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Maybe I’m getting old, but give me an S63 4Matic. MIT ALL ZE TOYZ!
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:48 |
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dat GL
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:49 |
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I prefer the GMC behind it
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:50 |
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I think you’re presenting this as a negative when this is why people find it appealing.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:53 |
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Then you must be not a baller.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:53 |
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I ball hard core. That is why I need the space of the GMC
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:57 |
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undeniably the most ignorant of all performance SUVs. which is why it’s great.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 11:57 |
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Ladies and gentlemen, please have a look at this:
A promotional picture of the Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen back in the day (1979), when the civilian version was introduced.
That I can love (even though I don’t particularly like it): practical, very businesslike, with a certain spartan charm.
That bedecked, bejewelled, besmirched conveyance, on the other hand...
![]() 03/30/2016 at 12:09 |
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At least for me, it’s dated and cramped - you can get a lot more for a lot less money, like a Land Cruiser. As a fashion statement, this car says something ... and I don’t think I want to say that. But if you had one and tossed me the keys for an afternoon, I’d surely drive it. And perhaps enjoy it. I’ll never shit on a car someone else enjoys.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 12:23 |
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After seeing the 6x6, regular 4-wheel G-wagens don't do it for me anymore.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 12:25 |
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I sat in a new G class about two weeks ago and you can really tell that this vehicle is essentially from the 70s. The windshield is really steep and almost in your face.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 12:56 |
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My girlfriend loves the G. It’s her dream car.
She’s pretty baller.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 13:20 |
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I love both
![]() 03/30/2016 at 13:22 |
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I’ve sat in one. Closing the door is amazing.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 13:25 |
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Everything feels really solid. No puny crap like the soccer mommy GLE with those fancy soft closing doors.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 14:47 |
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So you like V8 G-Wagens, huh?
In 1986 Porsche used a 280GE as “fast service barge” for the 959s in the Paris-Dakar Rally, driven by Kiefer/Koerkemeier (DNF):
The engine was a 928 unit. As far as I know it was a 32 valve prototype engine. It had no low-ratio: maybe the gearbox was not sturdy enough.
The car was built out of the GE280 that had been wrecked in the Pharaons Rally a year earlier, where it had also performed fast-service duties for Porsche with Roland Kussmaul (no less!) at the wheel.
Notice the grille has been modified to let the V8 in; also the aerodynamic appendages at the rear.
(Please note also that info on these cars is extremely sketchy and sometimes contradictory. Up until today, when I did a couple of searches on the Internet, I thought the Pharaons car was already fitted with a Porsche V8.)
The same car, today, as kept by Porsche with sundry other prototypes:
(picture taken from here:
http://www.oldtimer.ru/blogs/denis_or…
also very interesting images from other peculiar concoctions being kept in Porsche’s basement...)
I remember seeing a Rothmans-liveried G-Wagen in Porsche’s “backyard” in ‘88 or ‘89. It may or may not have been the same, but I suppose it was. They had lots of strange stuff down there: even a tank chassis (Porsche developed the engineers’ version of the Leopard).
![]() 03/30/2016 at 15:04 |
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I love it.
![]() 03/30/2016 at 15:07 |
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Also found in
http://www.oldtimer.ru/blogs/denis_or…
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The engine bay with the 928 engine. I understand that is indeed a 32-valve unit.
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http://oppositelock.kinja.com/interesting-ch…