The owner of a 1949 Unimog tractor has been driving it all over Germany to collect donations— at last count, he’s up to 10,000 Euros ($11,000)— in support of a nonprofit hospice. Jan Peters, an ...

The Unimog’s birth was a rather disturbing process. In 1944, Germany was on the pathway of becoming an agrarian country and the 1945 bombing didn’t do much to help the state’s industry. It was this ...

It has been more than 60 years since the first prototype of Mercedes-Benz's Universal Motor Machine appeared, and the versatile vehicle has been motoring on since. And if the latest developments are ...

The Unimog has worked a three-pointed star badge long enough for just about everyone to consider it a Mercedes-Benz design. But that's not the case. Today is the 70th anniversary of Daimler-Benz's ...

"In this gear, the maximum speed is 80 meters per hour," Siegfried Burow tells me. I can hear the U1450's diesel engine making noise, but our forward progress is imperceptible. Again, we're moving at ...