Editing Unimog (section)

==Overview==
Conceived in 1944 in response to the [[Morgenthau Plan]], former [[Daimler-Benz]] airplane engine engineers developed prototypes under occupation. The small universally-applicable motorised 25hp workhorse was designed to be able to fit over two rows of potatoes to work on fields like a slow [[agricultural tractor]], but with four equal size wheels on [[portal axle]]s, coil spring suspension, and many gears allowing it to run on roads like a truck. Unimog production started in 1948 at {{illm|Gebr. Boehringer{{!}}Boehringer|de|Gebr. Boehringer}} in [[Göppingen]]. When larger production numbers were needed, Daimler-Benz took over manufacture of the Unimog in 1951, and first produced it in their [[Gaggenau#Local Industry|Gaggenau plant]], and the Unimog was sold under the Mercedes-Benz brand. However, the first Unimog to feature the three-pointed Mercedes-Benz star instead of the Boehringer bullhead was only introduced in 1953. From the 1970s, the more tractor-like [[MB-trac]] series was offered before it was outsourced in 1990. Since 2002, the Unimog has been built in the Mercedes-Benz truck plant in [[Wörth am Rhein]] in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-8792-49-36829-1-0-0-0-0-0-91-7145-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html |title=Wörth, Mercedes-Benz Werk |publisher=Daimler |access-date=2011-05-16 |quote=Produktion: Actros, Atego, Axor, Econic, Produktbereich Unimog / Sonderfahrzeuge, Zetros, Produktentwicklung |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329150757/http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-8792-49-36829-1-0-0-0-0-0-91-7145-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html |archive-date=2010-03-29}}</ref> The [[Mercedes-Benz buses#Mercedes-Benz Türk|Mercedes-Benz Türk A.Ş.]] plant assembles Unimogs in [[Aksaray]], Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-8792-49-175941-1-0-0-0-0-0-91-7145-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html |title=Aksaray, Werk (Mercedes-Benz Türk A.S.) |publisher=Daimler |date=2009-12-31 |access-date=2011-01-02 |quote=Produktion: Atego, Axor und Unimog, Produktentwicklung |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609130111/http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-8792-49-175941-1-0-0-0-0-0-91-7145-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html |archive-date=2010-06-09}}</ref> Unimogs were also built in Argentina (first ever country to do so outside Germany) by Mercedes-Benz Argentina S.A. under licence from 1968 until 1983 (with some extra units built until 1991 off the assembly line from parts in stock) in the [[González Catán]] factory near the city of Buenos Aires, as stated in the book "El Unimog en el Ejército Argentino", by Argentine author and historian Gaston Javier Garcia Loperena in 2015.<ref name="Loperena_2015">{{cite book |author1-first=García |author1-last=Loperena |author2-first=Gastón |author2-last=Javier |date=2015 |title=El Unimog en el Ejército Argentino |lang=es |place=Buenos Aires |publisher=1884 Editorial |isbn=9789509822993}}</ref>{{rp|141}}<ref name=Vogler_2016 />{{rp|122}}

The first model was designed by Albert Friedrich and Heinrich Rößler shortly after [[World War II]] to be used in agriculture as a self-propelled machine providing a [[power take-off]] to operate saws in forests or harvesting machines on fields. It was designed with rear-wheel drive and switchable front-wheel drive, with equal-size wheels, in order to be driven on roads at higher speeds than standard farm [[tractor]]s. With their very high ground clearance and a flexible frame that is essentially a part of the suspension, Unimogs are not designed to carry as much load as regular trucks.<ref name="Nellinger">{{Cite book | author-first=Lutz | author-last=Nellinger | title=Der Unimog: Arbeitstier und Kultmobil | trans-title=The Unimog: Workhorse and cult vehicle | publisher=Komet | location=Cologne, Germany | language=de | date=2016 | isbn=978-3-86941-581-9 }}</ref>{{rp|7}}

Due to their off-road capabilities, Unimogs can be found in jungles, mountains and deserts as military vehicles, fire fighters, expedition campers, and even in competitions like [[Off-roading#Trials|truck trials]] and [[Dakar Rally]] [[rally raid]]s. In Western Europe, they are commonly used as [[Snowplow|snowploughs]], municipal equipment carriers, agricultural implements, forest ranger vehicles, construction equipment or [[road–rail vehicle]]s and as army personnel or equipment carriers (in its armoured military version). New Unimogs can be purchased in one of two series: medium series [[Unimog 405|405]], also known as the UGN ("Geräteträger" or equipment carrier),<ref name="Implement Carrier Technical Manual 2014">
{{Cite web | title=Unimog Implement Carrier BlueTec 6 Technical Manual
| publisher= Daimler AG | date= February 2014
| url= http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/media_library/unitedkingdom/mpc_unitedkingdom/Unimog/pdfs/u_216_-_u_530.object-Single-MEDIA.tmp/UnimogSpecificationSheetBlueTec6.pdf
| access-date= 2014-07-16}}</ref>{{Rp|4}} and heavy series 437, also known as the UHN ("Hochgeländegängig" or highly mobile cross country).<ref name="Technical Info U4023/U5023 2014">
{{Cite web | title=Technical Information U 4023 / U 5023
| publisher= Daimler AG | date= 2014-04-07
| url= http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/media_library/unitedkingdom/mpc_unitedkingdom/Unimog/pdfs/U4000_-_U5000/u_4023_euro_6_spec.object-Single-MEDIA.tmp/U4023-U5023TechnicalInformation.pdf
| access-date= 2014-07-15}}</ref>
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