{"id":4101,"date":"2012-12-18T17:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2013-03-04T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:03:43","slug":"got-a-problem-a-unimog-will-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4101","title":{"rendered":"Got A Problem? A Unimog Will Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t bear any resemblance to a van and it hasn’t got much to do with van hire<\/a> — but it is seriously impressive and it is a commercial vehicle. As it’s winter and we’ve had a (little) bit of bad weather, Mercedes-Benz has been pimping the benefits of its 4-wheel drive trucks, most notably the awesome Unimog.<\/p>\n

There really isn’t much a Unimog can’t do, from pulling trains to fording water more than 1m deep — so without further ado, let’s enjoy a pre-Christmas, all-wheel drive treat:<\/p>\n

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As you may have spotted, this picture of a Unimog clearing meaningful amounts of snow can’t possibly have been taken in the UK.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Not sure we’ll get that Christmas tree through the front door, darling.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ain’t no river deep enough (to stop a Unimog)…<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leaves on the line? Get the Unimog on the job.<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, if there’s ever a time in your life when a Unimog simply isn’t man enough for the job, Mercedes has something even bigger, harder and better up its sleeve. The Zetros can have a gross weight of up to 27t and is a very special and rare machine.<\/p>\n

Aberdeen Airport<\/a> is the proud owner of the UK’s first Zetros, as Mercedes explains:<\/p>\n

Aberdeen Airport, which typically experiences much harsher winters than those further south, invested in the UK\u2019s first Zetros \u2013 a pair of highly specialised tractors, equipped with state-of-the-art ploughing, sweeping and blowing equipment by Aebi Schmidt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here it is, in all its snow-blowing glory:<\/p>\n

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Aberdeen Airport was the first UK customer for the Zetros<\/p><\/div>\n

I hope you’ve enjoyed this brief diversion into all-wheel drive silliness — but if you’d like to see more of Mercedes’ awesome all-wheel drive trucks in action, then I’d strongly recommend this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few vehicles are more potently impressive than the Mercedes Unimog — although there is one, and we’ve got a picture of it in action alongside some Unimogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[826,1085,156,1535,1630,1536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}