Unimog becomes an Off Road Class C

I love the unimog campers but I always think of the old joke about 4WD...it gets you stuck further from help...except help might never reach a unimog if you use it's full capability and still get it stuck.

Good luck getting up into the cab of that thing if your knees, hips, or feet don't work like a 30-something's do ... or if you're trying to get up into it carrying something in one hand like a 7 lb. dog.

There's a couple of ways of going off-highway in a practical & comfortable RV - one of them is to go slow and smart. An extreme rig is not always necessary - even if one could afford one.

valhalla360 wrote:
I love the unimog campers but I always think of the old joke about 4WD...it gets you stuck further from help...except help might never reach a unimog if you use it's full capability and still get it stuck.

Why it has a winch on the front....;)

pnichols wrote:
Good luck getting up into the cab of that thing if your knees, hips, or feet don't work like a 30-something's do ... or if you're trying to get up into it carrying something in one hand like a 7 lb. dog.

There's a couple of ways of going off-highway in a practical & comfortable RV - one of them is to go slow and smart. An extreme rig is not always necessary - even if one could afford one.

No, that certainly would be a very stupid and dangerous approach. Especially in Australia. For a smallish area like Utah, probably not a problem
They have steps like a plane for access.

schoolteacher from Gladstone in SA's mid-north, Ms Olsen said she feared they would perish in the vast Outback. Her anxiety grew when it started raining.

The 1998 death of Austrian tourist Gabrielle Grossmueller was constantly in the back of her mind.

"The first night we were out there we kept talking about her, maybe her ghost is still walking up and down the track," she said. "We were close to where she died.

"Alister was the calm one. Every night as the sun would go down I would start crying and saying no one is going to find us."

Ms Grossmueller died of exposure on the same track after the vehicle she and her boyfriend were driving became bogged. She attempted to walk to William Creek while her companion stayed with the vehicle and was later rescued

SidecarFlip wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
I love the unimog campers but I always think of the old joke about 4WD...it gets you stuck further from help...except help might never reach a unimog if you use it's full capability and still get it stuck.

Why it has a winch on the front....;)

Too pull you out. Anyone who goes too extreme areas, needs a partner and winch

Another inside shot

It would be really comfortable at the end of the day but if I needed something that extreme I probably shouldn't be there in the first place.

romore wrote:
It would be really comfortable at the end of the day but if I needed something that extreme I probably shouldn't be there in the first place.

Each to their own. This sort of challenge appeals too non North American RVers

romore wrote:
It would be really comfortable at the end of the day but if I needed something that extreme I probably shouldn't be there in the first place.

RobertRyan wrote:
Each to their own. This sort of challenge appeals too non North American RVers

We here in the U.S. like challenges and can deal with them as well as the next guy in any country. Try the remote corner of Northwestern Nevada, for instance.

We here just realize that it doesn't take diesel powered $$$$ overkill monsters to deal with the challenges.

Here's an affordable and practical example of what would probably get the 4X4 comfortable RV'ing job done in most of North America - and of course it could be ordered on a diesel chassis if that's preferred for travel in non-gasoline environments:

SidecarFlip wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
I love the unimog campers but I always think of the old joke about 4WD...it gets you stuck further from help...except help might never reach a unimog if you use it's full capability and still get it stuck.

Why it has a winch on the front....;)

So you can drag it a little deeper into trouble. :o