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The new Unimog appears
relatively small in front of
DaimlerChrysler’s administrative
headquarters in
Stuttgart-Möhringen.
As a powerful system
equipment carrier, however,
the new Unimog generation
vehicle is greater than ever
before.
While Dr. Klaus Maier, Head of the
Mercedes-Benz truck division,
and Hans-Jürgen Wischhof,
Head of the Unimog division, present the
new Unimog U 300 and U 400 to European
journalists in the Forum , a model of the
new series stands in the sunlight in front
of the Stuttgart headquarters of the group
of companies .
The big star turns constantly on top of
the main building on 13 March. This is
something the new, white Unimog 400
cannot do but it is nevertheless appreciated
from all sides: So this is how it looks
like, is a sentence you hear often when
employees and visitors walk across the
square and around the new Unimog model
with curiosity.
Some 120 journalists are seeing this
modern vehicle for the first time today.
But not only that: with the presentation of
the U 300 /U 400, an entirely new era has
begun. In the words of Dr. Klaus Maier:
We have re-defined the Unimog philosophy
Admired from all sides
because despite the vehicle s unchanging
fascination, the Unimog market structure
has changed. Realising the new concept
has been the task of the developers in
Gaggenau for the past three and a half
years.
After explanatory remarks from Dr.
Klaus Maier and Hans-Jürgen Wischhof,
the specialised journalists rushed to the
terrace of the Forum to take pictures of
the Unimog with its equipment from
every perspective.
Some of them got into
the driver s cabin,
finished in gentian
blue, for a closer look
at the VarioPilot
changeover steering.
Shortly before this,
the Head of the
Unimog Division had
drawn attention to an
important cornerstone
of the Unimog system,
the basic version of
which is equipped
with ABS, EPS, an
engine in accordance
with the Euro 3
standard and air conditioning
and has an
The new Unimog generation
Sales Manager Winfried Blum (right) was
very much in demand as a conversation
partner (above, centre)
From left to right: Hans-Jürgen Wischhof,
Head of the Unimog Product Division,
Dr. Klaus Maier, Head of the Mercedes-Benz
Truck Division and Sales Manager Winfried
Blum during the conference for the specialised
press (above, right)
Erich Rid, Unimog Product Manager, explains
the transmission of the new models
increased payload: Its value for money
corresponds to the market situation and
applies not only to the equipment carrier
itself but to the entire system. With the
Unimog equipment system partnership ,
a new quality was introduced in cooperation
with leading equipment manufacturers
in Germany and abroad: the vehicle and
the equipment were and will continue to
be developed and tested jointly.
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