The Mercedes-Benz UNIMOG… “MAN’S BEST FRIEND” By James Ince This article is in part authored by James Ince, in part drawn from Mercedes-Benz archival documents and in part from an article, “UNIMOG, Des Menschen Bester Freund”, appearing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Newspaper), 05 March 1975, and translated, updated, and edited by James Ince ©1990-1995,…

Our founder’s overland years In the early 1970s, Jim first encountered Mercedes‑Benz UNIMOGs while exploring the vast hinterlands between Istanbul, Turkey and Kathmandu, Nepal. He’d founded and operated a medical “free clinic” for Tibetan refugees in Nepal and drove the 6,000‑mile Asian “Highway” (such as it was) once or twice a year for about a…