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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Mercedes-AMG G63

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Hobbies, Automotive, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The AMG G63 test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at [email protected] or everydaydriver.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You realize up to this point, in time, neither of us have driven a G-Wagon.

0:05.0

You're right. That's why we decided to pull this one.

0:07.0

The G-Wagon has existed since 1979.

0:10.0

That's a long time.

0:11.0

It is a long time. It was originally built as a military vehicle

0:14.0

and bought worldwide. It had diesels and low power engines.

0:19.0

And then in 1983, a G-Wagon won the Paris to Decar rally.

0:23.0

And so it proved its bona fide as the world's premier off-road vehicle

0:28.0

is a truck. It's just a down and dirty truck.

0:31.0

It's kind of like a weird combination between what the US made for the Hummer H1

0:36.0

and what we've done forever as a Wrangler.

0:38.0

It's kind of like that kind of thinking.

0:40.0

It's a heavy-duty, rough and tumble military off-road truck.

0:44.0

Jeep with a star.

0:45.0

Kind of.

0:46.0

That's what it is.

0:47.0

Until.

0:48.0

Until.

0:49.0

People started buying them and not taking them off-road

0:53.0

and they became a status symbol and they became a luxury item.

0:56.0

And then over the years, over time, they really became a status symbol.

1:01.0

But now, this is the truck that I want.

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