[MV] Re: Underpowered UNIMOG

Andreas Mehlhorn (a.mehlhorn@t-online.de)
Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:53:07 +0100

Colin Brookes schrieb:
>
> The Unimog has quite good offroad capabilities as far as not bottoming
> out (short overhangs), however it is drastically underpowered and this
> needs to be kept well in mind all the time.
>

For which reason do you need a lot of power off-road? To turn the
wheels and throw the mud?=20

If you are in real heavy off-road conditions, you drive slowly.
5 mph or so, sometimes slower. And for this speed you don't need
much power. You need a gearbox which offers a wide range of gears
for slow speeds.

If your aim is to win the PARIS-DAKAR Rallye, you need much power
off road, but if you want to drive in really difficult areas, where
all other vehicles surrender, the good old underpowered UNIMOG is
first choice.

Regards
Andreas

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