Used Unicat

[Victorian]

Just in case you always wanted one... and have some $650.000 in spare cash kicking around... Here is the perfect truck for you:sombrero:
http://www.unicat.net/de/pics/GEX46HD-MANM4x4CC-2.html

But as usual: be careful it's used :coffeedrink::bike_rider::ylsmoke::smiley_drive::e lkgrin:

[SoCal_80]

Oh my god.......:drool::drool:

[Hill, Bill E.]

Hello Lotto!!:wings:

That is so sool! Kind of like a fancy tree fort, yacht cabin, and big "I own the trails" truck, all rolled into one!:ylsmoke:

But I have a couple questions....

How does one get into the upper loft? Is there a ladder not shown in the pics?


And do the wine and veggies come with?

If not, it's a deal breaker.....gotta have my vino & veggies!!:wings:

BTW: I'm assuming that swing out doo-dad that looks like a waffle maker, is an espresso machine? Cool! I love my caffiene!:coffeedrink:

[adventureduo]

Wiping drool off the keyboard. :drool:

[Lynn]

I think this is a slightly smaller version of the infamous 'garbage truck motor home.' IIRC it had a set of stairs to get to the loft. Probably a stow-away ladder in this one?

I really dream about this style of hard-side pop-up, but would want more windows. Especially since they are covered in 'travel' mode.

[Street Wolf]

Do want.

[skysix]

I like this one better for that price range - only $623,268.84

GEX63HDS-MANTGA6x6 (http://www.unicat.net/en/pics/GEX63HDS-MANTGA6x6-2.html)

http://www.unicat.net/img/EX63HDM-MANTGA6x6.27-560.jpg

However in that size range I think this model was the best compromise of luxury and size they made:

EX45-HD /
Unimog U 2450 L 38 (http://www.unicat.net/en/info/UM12HD.html)

http://www.unicat.net/img/UM12HD.2-560.jpg

[ujoint]

So, so sweet..... wow

[Jnich77]

Not my style at all, but very, very impressive vehicle! Now, if you put that camper on a 2wd F-450 we are talking :-)

[Errant]

Holy cow. I was born into the wrong family. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to be rich.

[RMP&O]

Nice truck....

but who is going to drive a $600k+ truck outside the USA? It doesn't make any sense to me, the amount of trouble this would get you in driving through 85% of the world. Great for driving around the USA/Canada or perhaps across Australia but otherwise pretty much worthless. Vehicles like this are no good outside a few countries. To large for one and way to much bling, expensive plus hard to repair and get parts for. I can't imagine the bribe the cops would want from you if they pul you over driving this! :sombrero:

In 85% or more of the world, small, cheap and reliable is way way better.

[Hill, Bill E.]

Nice truck....

but who is going to drive a $600k+ truck outside the USA? It doesn't make any sense to me, the amount of trouble this would get you in driving through 85% of the world. Great for driving around the USA/Canada or perhaps across Australia but otherwise pretty much worthless. Vehicles like this are no good outside a few countries. To large for one and way to much bling, expensive plus hard to repair and get parts for. I can't imagine the bribe the cops would want from you if they pul you over driving this! :sombrero:

In 85% or more of the world, small, cheap and reliable is way way better.

Yeah, but, but, but..............It has an ESPRESSO machine!:coffeedrink:

[charlieaarons]

Nice truck....

but who is going to drive a $600k+ truck outside the USA? It doesn't make any sense to me, the amount of trouble this would get you in driving through 85% of the world. Great for driving around the USA/Canada or perhaps across Australia but otherwise pretty much worthless. Vehicles like this are no good outside a few countries. To large for one and way to much bling, expensive plus hard to repair and get parts for. I can't imagine the bribe the cops would want from you if they pul you over driving this! :sombrero:

In 85% or more of the world, small, cheap and reliable is way way better.

I'm driving my Unicat around the world via Australia, SE Asia, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Europe starting this fall. Unicat type vehicles travel often in S. America as well. Yes, it has been in Morocco and Mexico. Regarding your subtle allusion to Mexico, when we got stuck in a (non) dry lake, 2 Mex. Army Hummers helped us get out along with ~8 soldiers. We offered payment; they refused.
As far as parts of Africa are concerned, it doesn't matter whether you're on a bicycle, motorcycle, beat up Landcruiser or whatever; it's trouble. Incidentally, the vehicle of choice to steal/hijack in the Sahara for the AQIM types is a 60, 70 or 80 series Landcruiser.
For us old f*rts it's nice to have a bed to sleep in and a potty to do your thing into.
I think your comments are generated by something other than experience.

Charlie

PS: "Hard to repair"? I'd rather search a spare part and service for a Mercedes or even a MAN than a Ford or Dodge outside N. America.

[nick disjunkt]

Nice truck....

but who is going to drive a $600k+ truck outside the USA? It doesn't make any sense to me, the amount of trouble this would get you in driving through 85% of the world. Great for driving around the USA/Canada or perhaps across Australia but otherwise pretty much worthless. Vehicles like this are no good outside a few countries. To large for one and way to much bling, expensive plus hard to repair and get parts for. I can't imagine the bribe the cops would want from you if they pul you over driving this! :sombrero:

In 85% or more of the world, small, cheap and reliable is way way better.

Europe, America and Australia comprise 30% of the earths landmass. That's a lot of land to explore! More than one person could do effectively in their lifetime.

Vehicles like this are useless to the type of people who steal vehicles outside of the developed world anyway. Largely in asia and africa people steal vehicles because they need a vehicle, not because they intend to sell it to fund a crack habit.

Having said this, vehicle theft is extremely rare for travellers who venture out of Europe, America and Australia in ANY vehicle, and so your primary concern should be travelling in a vehicle which best suits your needs, rather than the one which is least likely to get stolen.

For people who live in their vehicle for years at a time, the benfits of having something large like this unicat truck outweigh the off-roading advantages of the kind of small 4x4 vehicles used by people who go away for holidays and extended weekends to their local off-roading tracks and trails.

[Victorian]

I'm driving my Unicat around the world via Australia, SE Asia, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Europe starting this fall. Unicat type vehicles travel often in S. America as well. Yes, it has been in Morocco and Mexico. Regarding your subtle allusion to Mexico, when we got stuck in a (non) dry lake, 2 Mex. Army Hummers helped us get out along with ~8 soldiers. We offered payment; they refused.
As far as parts of Africa are concerned, it doesn't matter whether you're on a bicycle, motorcycle, beat up Landcruiser or whatever; it's trouble. Incidentally, the vehicle of choice to steal/hijack in the Sahara for the AQIM types is a 60, 70 or 80 series Landcruiser.
For us old f*rts it's nice to have a bed to sleep in and a potty to do your thing into.
I think your comments are generated by something other than experience.

Charlie

PS: "Hard to repair"? I'd rather search a spare part and service for a Mercedes or even a MAN than a Ford or Dodge outside N. America.

Well said :) I know some Unicat customers from Switzerland who's truck was white and together with a red cross across the front(the national flag), it looked like an official vehicle from the red cross organization! They almost always got free passage at police check points :bike_rider:.

[Victorian]

oh, by the way. Check out this video and see your self how far you can get in a Unicat!

YouTube- MAN / UNIMOG / VOLVO - UNICAT ® Expedition Vehicle Off Road Camper - Expeditionsmobil

Around 1:40 is especially good :sombrero::Wow1:

[1leglance]

that video is way way cool....
and I love the Smart car on the back of one of the rigs at the end...
I have to say that I might not go dune driving in my Sportsmobile the way those guys go at it in the big rigs...wow

[JRhetts]

Nice truck....

but who is going to drive a $600k+ truck outside the USA? It doesn't make any sense to me, the amount of trouble this would get you in driving through 85% of the world.

Charlie made a good reply, but I'd just like to add that based on the fact that we have driven over three outside-the-US continents that your assumption is not borne out by our experience. We have not been hassled, taxed or inhibited by officials and certainly not by locals.

Tens of thousands of sophisticated vehicles are driven [principally by Europeans] thru and welcomed in rural parts of the world each year, and we have experienced the same. The attitude of the travelers in our experience seems to control how they are treated. And we expect the same in future in our FusoFM-based 24' vehicle.

John

[RMP&O]

I'm driving my Unicat around the world via Australia, SE Asia, China, Mongolia, Russia, and Europe starting this fall. Unicat type vehicles travel often in S. America as well. Yes, it has been in Morocco and Mexico. Regarding your subtle allusion to Mexico, when we got stuck in a (non) dry lake, 2 Mex. Army Hummers helped us get out along with ~8 soldiers. We offered payment; they refused.
As far as parts of Africa are concerned, it doesn't matter whether you're on a bicycle, motorcycle, beat up Landcruiser or whatever; it's trouble. Incidentally, the vehicle of choice to steal/hijack in the Sahara for the AQIM types is a 60, 70 or 80 series Landcruiser.
For us old f*rts it's nice to have a bed to sleep in and a potty to do your thing into.
I think your comments are generated by something other than experience.

Charlie

PS: "Hard to repair"? I'd rather search a spare part and service for a Mercedes or even a MAN than a Ford or Dodge outside N. America.

Actually my opinion comes from experience. Having traveled a fair amount ovrseas and yes even a drive to Panama and back. So, my opinions do not come from experience?

By all means go for it! You certainly will have an adventure and after the trip can report back your experiences so other people can enjoy the trip you take and perhaps learn from your expeirence. You may very well not experience any issues at all on your trip. Then again....

And I think it is great to do an around the world trip in a Unimog, on foot, by bicycle or in a TLC. I am also very well aware people do overlanding in extremely high dollar vehicles. Just because people do things though doesn't mean I or others will think it is a good idea or agree with it.

Any vehcile on the road that is not available locally will be difficult to get parts for. Yet, with the internet, credit cards and international phone calls you can have just about anything drop shipped to you anywhere in the world. It is still going to be easier to get a part for a USA vehicle that is fairly common production shipped to you than it will be to get some Unimog parts. Not to mention the tool kit you need to reapir a Unimog compared to say a 60 series TLC. I have had parts shipped to me while outside the USA on a trip and repaired my vehcile myself. So yeah, I am speaking from experience not just blowing my horn.

I wasn't so much implying theft of the vehicle so much as you are a HUGE target for bribes, petty theft and common scams. It is well known the military in Mexico and many other countries is going to treat you well and ask for no money. My own experience is the same. It is also well known that the corruption is in the local police who will try and take you for as much as they can. If it looks like you have lots of cash they will try to get you for as much as possible. My knowledge of this comes from personal experience driving outside the USA. Driving into the 2nd or 3rd world in a bling $600k truck is like having a neon sigh on it that says...I HAVE MONEY AND LOTS OF IT! To people who would want your money that makes you a target. To the average person it just says, there is a rich guy, his washing machine in his truck costs more than my entire family makes in a year. In my mind, driving a $600k vehicle to a very poor part of the world is kind of like spitting in the face of the locals. It is flanting your wealth to people who struggle to survive day to day. To me it is disrespectful of the local poor communities and culture.

Are locals in these poor 2nd & 3rd world countries going to be curious, friendly, treat you well and even be outgoing to interact with you? Of course. By nature poor people are evry friendly, it has something to do with being happy with what you have even if it is next to nothing. That is a whole different topic though.

There was a time (20yrs ago) I used to dream of a Unimog camper and driving it around the world. That was before I had done much traveling at all, I was young and naive.

It seems to me what people miss the most out of other peoples posts is that the person is expressing their opinion. My opinion is that driving a $600k truck around the world might be an adventure but may not be such a great idea. There are far better ways to do it and much cheaper ways also. Not to mention what you could do with the $600k beside buy the expedition 4wd mansion on wheels. Heck man just 10% of the cost of the truck could do wonders for a poor community in the 3rd world! Once you have actually seen children digging through the dump to survive...well, you just can't think that a $600k truck is good thing to drive through their country.

I am not telling anyone not to do a trip in a $600k vehicle but I am stating my opinion on the subject, which is based on my experience.

:)

[dzzz]

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I wasn't so much implying theft of the vehicle so much as you are a HUGE target for bribes, petty theft and common scams. ............



Actually that's not true either. But I shouldn't have to explain why, what with all your worldly experience.