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Mercedes-Benz won two awards from Off Road Magazine

The readers of "Off Road" magazine for the third time, the Mercedes-Benz Unimog cross-country voted as a vehicle of the year in the "Special Vehicles" category. The Unimog will receive the title "2007 SUV of the year-Special vehicles of category" after the October edition of the popular four-wheel-drive magazine invited Munich readers to vote for a selection of off-road vehicles in eight categories.

The trophy has been in the form of an obelisk Off Road presented during a special gala evening in Munich's "Das Schloss" theater marquee. 56,000 Readers have been formed to select the winners nominated from among the 80 vehicles by the organizer. Mercedes-Benz models won in two categories: the Unimog was the Top-scoring model among the Special Vehicles obtaining 59% of the readers' poll. The Mercedes G-Class won the "Classics".

The eight categories of the readers were asked to Following were the following:

9. SUVs
10. Luxury SUV
11. Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs)
12. Luxury SUV
13. Classics
14. Pick-ups
15. Special vehicles
16. Crossover Vehicles

The "Special Vehicles" category includes cross-country vehicles used for the transportation of loads and cargo in remote areas or as a basis for specific missions of the fire, the military and for expeditions. The Unimog was the winner in this category. Its features include excellent portal axles they give an excellent off-road capability, combined its extreme torsional flexibility with an additional amount of toughness and strength to win the whole package complete.

Martin C. Klein, director of Sales & Marketing Division of Special Vehicles of DaimlerChrysler AG received the award of Off Road's Florian Pillau. Actually, this was not the first time that the Unimog was honored in 1994 it was SUVs of the year.

The range of Unimog was produced in Wörth plant since 2002, the high-Unimog U 3000 to U 5000 series are ideal for difficult terrain operations, that are far away from roads and paths. The main applications are in the areas of fire-fighting, especially in cases of forest fires, disaster relief, expedition Transportation and service and maintenance work in areas where access is difficult. The latest offspring of the family is the compact Unimog U 20, which made its debut at the 2006 IAA Commercial Vehicles.

The Classic category, which consisted of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUVs that have withstood the changing fashions was won and have their original Identity for many years maintained. It should be noted that the G-Class in production since 1979 and currently offered in three engine variants: with turbo diesel with common rail injection and with two eight-cylinder gasoline engine.

Mercedes-Benz through the years
The history of Mercedes-Benz is a record of the automaker's remarkable achievements in the automotive industry such as the Mercedes-Benz 240D, was introduced in 1973 in Europe and in North America after a year as a new diesel variant of the W115 chassis 220D instead of the strongest Mercedes diesel car.

The price of the 240D was 19,913.40 Marks, the four times the price of a typical car during this time. It has the following features: heated seats, Cruise control, leather seats, sunroof and a driven. It was then that the 240D was branded as the fastest diesel engine available, despite the fact that their 4-cylinder, 2.4 horsepower engine delivers only 65 cars compared to today, the 240D can be considered extremely poor.

It was in 1976 that production of the 115 chassis and finished the 240D W123 chassis part of the family was together with the most powerful version, the 88-horsepower Mercedes-Benz 300D. The 240D engine was also improved to 53kW or 72 hp. The 240D was last introduced to North America in 1983, but production of the vehicle lasted until 1985. On the other side of the production of Mercedes 240D parts to provide continuous, that the remaining road 240D touches today. Each Mercedes Passed Benz 240D part has the same quality test, the Mercedes-employed.

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Dwyane Thomas is a part time cook and full-time auto-enthusiast. This 31-year old Civil and Environmental graduate is a consultant at one of the engineering firms in Pennsylvania.