Freightliner describes the Unimog as an off-road vehicle, but it is not a true sport utility. The $84,000 base version will somewhat resemble a pickup with enormous front and side windows to help ...

Freightliner LLC says that the Unimog is intended for commercial applications where terrain or weather requires a high-mobility vehicle – not as a consumer product for the lucrative SUV market.

This 1987 Freightliner Unimog up for auction on Bring a Trailer is a truck that can scratch even the biggest off-road itch. The vehicles are known all over the world for their unstoppable ...

To set matters straight, Freightliner issued a release stating Unimog isn’t a sport-utility vehicle, but a multipurpose vehicle that not only stands about 10 feet high but also is a foot longer ...

Freightliner says “a few hundred thousand” of the vehicles have been produced and sold worldwide. Manufactured at the Mercedes-Benz truck plant in Worth, Germany, it’s being marketed and sold under ...

"Unimog adds a new dimension to the North American 4x4 truck market," says Freightliner president Jim Hebe, in what has to be the early front-runner for understatement of the year.

The original version of the Unimog, which entered production in Germany 50 years ago, had been used by the U.S.and Swiss armies in the past and was essentially built for heavy lifting.