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(from Mercedes-Benz
Press Release) Mercedes-Benz Unimog celebrates 60th Jubilee -
Mercedes-Benz and LEGO® - first time cooperation: Unimog the biggest
Technic model of all time
• Design
true to the original and just like the real thing
• real functions reproduced in LEGO format
• 2048 modules thrill adult LEGO fans
Wörth/München – Anyone
who always dreamed of owning his own Unimog now has the chance to
put one in his garage: The first do-it-yourself Unimog U 400
(1:12,5) will be on offer from August on: The LEGO Group, the
world’s third largest toy manufacturer, has created a model with
2048 elements – up to now the largest LEGO Technic model in the
company’s history. The impressive vehicle which links a combination
of electric drive and pneumatics has been produced in exlusive
cooperation with Mercedes-Benz as a true adaptation of the original
down to the smallest details. As the world's most versatile
workhorse, the Unimog pushes snow away in winter, mows motorway
embankments in summer or helps to construct new roads. The so-called
" Power Functions " run the pump of a pneumatically operated crane
with a gripper arm that can rotate almost 360 degrees. With its
gripper and the front winch, the Unimog can move any load out of the
way. In addition it also has a serviceable control system and an
engine which is accurate in every detail right down to the pistons.
The gear unit provides good ground clearance just like the portal
axles in the orginal, an individual suspension deadens jolts and the
four-wheel drive guarantees mobility off-road as well. For winter
use, the crane and winch can be converted into a huge snow plough.
The LEGO Technic Unimog U 400 will be available from toy retailers
from August on as well as from Mercedes- Benz and it costs about 190
Euros.
Mercedes-Benz Unimog celebrates
60th Jubilee
This top LEGO model
comes just at the right time for the two big jubilees that the
Unimog is celebrating at the moment: 60 years ago, on 3 June 1951 to
be exact, the first Mercedes-Benz Unimog was created in Gaggenau and
in December 2010 the 10,000th Unimog from product range U 300/U
400/U 500 rolled off the band at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth. A
unique vehicle concept had been created with its outstanding
off-road mobility due to its four-wheel drive and fast driving
features on the road. Since then the Unimog has proved its worth not
only for winter services, caring for green areas or for various work
in horticulture and landscape gardening – they are also used for
fighting forest fires and planting trees, digging ditches and
drilling holes in the ground, as well as shunting on railway lines
and disaster intervention over impassable country.
Altogether more than
380,000 units of the "Universal-Motor-Geräts (tool)" have rolled off
the line. In the early days, the Unimog was produced in Gaggenau,
but since 2002 it has been produced in Wörth. Daimler AG is
celebrating this jubilee in 2011 with a whole variety of events.
