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Get outta' the way ; Freightliner rolls out the `universal engine-driven apparatus,' aka Unimog.(Brief Article)
Outgrown your Excursion? Hummer lacking the ground clearance to ford the creek on the south forty?
Talk to Freightliner. The manufacturer of the ubiquitous 18-wheeler may have the right vehicle for you in something it calls the Unimog. Based on a German military transport vehicle, the four-wheel-drive Unimog is 20 feet long, nine feet seven inches tall, seven feet six inches wide, and weighs in at just under six tons, empty. A full load pushes the Unimog over the limit of most local road bridge capacities at 26,000 pounds.
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``It's clearly a work truck-it wouldn't even fit in your garage,'' said Nicholson. ...
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