Truck offroading in Madagascar to calm background music

"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars) 08/11/2018 at 18:35 • Filed to: Mercedes, Les routes impossibles

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Or would these be classified as roads, only really bad ones? This appears to be excerpt from a French documentary series featuring difficult routes around the world. You can find full episodes on Youtube.

McMike > KnowsAboutCars 08/11/2018 at 18:44

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I don’t think I have seen this Top Gear episode.

Nauraushaun > KnowsAboutCars 08/11/2018 at 19:40

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Fuck that’s satisfying. Somehow for all the crazy cool shit modern vehicles can do, not many of them could do that. Who the hell at Mercedes made that thing? And for what design brief?

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Nauraushaun 08/11/2018 at 21:37

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I’m not convinced Mercedes made that beast. I mean they built it, but it’s not the way it was when it left the factory. Just as an example, they talk about modern, rigid-framed trucks not being able to do the route without flipping, and the previous year they repaired a rear crossmember, and it made the truck too rigid, and it flipped into a ravine. It would have be based on a military truck chassis, adapted for commercial use, and then had the shit kicked out of it. Chances are it lived it’s whole life on that road, slowly adapting itself to the degrading road conditions. They mention that 6 0 years ago when it was still a French protectorate, the road was flat and smooth, but since then it’s never been maintained, and in five years it will likely be impassible because increased cyclones ravage everything. As i t breaks down over time, the truck falls apart more and more, increasing its ability to conform to the increasingly difficult  road.

Nauraushaun > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 08/12/2018 at 04:03

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Wow. Incredible.