G-Class

The Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen, from a 1972 agreement between Daimler-Benz and Steyr-Daimler-Puch to the electric G 580 — a military design that went on sale in September 1979, has been hand-built in Graz ever since, and became a luxury icon without changing its shape.

A chronological documentary of 186 moments spanning 1978–2026 on Loreline.

last updated 2026-08-08

1. 1978 — The earliest Geländewagen driving trials, from the Daimler archive. A Daimler archive reel showing very early driving trials of the G-Model, well before the car reached the public. The uploader flags it as worth watching closely for the prototype detail.
2. 1979 — Development testing of the W460 G-Class. Daimler AG footage of the W460 being put through its testing programme, showing the Gelaendewagen worked hard in development rather than posed. The uploader dates the material to 1979 and marks it copyright Daimler AG.
3. 1979 — Geländewagen cross-country testing footage, 1979. Period film of the Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen being run through cross-country testing. The upload's notes set out the chain that produced it: the 1972 joint-venture agreement between Daimler-Benz and Steyr-Daimler-Puch in Graz, the 1975 decision to build a dedicated plant there, and the February 1979 presentation of the production G-Models.
4. 1979 — Geländewagen launch film: "Die Antwort auf alle Ansprüche". The full-length 1979 Mercedes-Benz promotional film introducing the Geländewagen under the slogan "Die Antwort auf alle Ansprüche" — the answer to every demand. Nearly fifteen minutes of period driving and demonstration footage showing how the factory itself pitched its new off-roader at launch.
5. 1979 — Mercedes-Benz G-Class advertising film of 1979, short version. The short version of the 1979 advertising film for the original W460 G-Class, built around the line 'die Antwort auf alle Ansprueche' - the answer to every demand. It is the launch-year sales argument for the Gelaendewagen in the manufacturer's own words.
6. 1980 — Period advertising film for the 280 GE. A five-minute period Mercedes-Benz advertising film for the W460 280 GE. The upload's notes recall that the W460 was introduced at a press event on the off-road proving ground at Toulon in France and went on sale in September 1979, and that the vehicle is built in Austria by the firm that also sold it under the Puch name.
7. 1980 — Period German-market Geländewagen television commercial. An original Mercedes-Benz television commercial for the German-market Geländewagen, about a minute long. It is a straight period advertisement rather than a later retrospective.
8. 1982 — Mercedes 280 GE and Renault 20 Turbo duel on the 1982 Paris-Dakar. Period footage of a Mercedes-Benz 280 GE working to pass a Renault 20 Turbo on the 1982 Paris-Dakar. The Marreau brothers' Renault 20 Turbo 4x4 won that edition outright with Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur second in the 280 GE, before Mercedes-Benz took the win the following year.
9. 1982 — A working 240 GD in Liechtenstein. A Mercedes-Benz 240 GD registered in Liechtenstein. Cars like this - unrestored, in daily use, in mountain country - are the G-Class's actual habitat for its first two decades, before the model became a status symbol.
10. 1983 — Jacky Ickx's Mercedes 280 GE on the Paris-Dakar. Period rally footage of the Mercedes-Benz 280 GE campaigned by Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur on the Paris-Dakar. The pair finished second in 1982 and won the rally outright in 1983, which remains the G-Class's biggest competition result.
11. 1985-05-11 — The Popemobile in the crowd, 's-Hertogenbosch 1985. A second Anefo frame of the 230 G popemobile working its way through the crowd in 's-Hertogenbosch. The raised armoured-glass cabin was grafted onto an otherwise standard long-wheelbase G-Class chassis. The 1981 attempt on the Pope's life is what turned this from an open car into a glass box.
12. 1985-05-11 — Papal motorcade, Netherlands 1985. A third Anefo frame from the same 1985 Dutch papal visit. The G-Class popemobile is the reason a purpose-built military off-roader became one of the most photographed vehicles in the world.
13. 1985-05-11 — John Paul II in the Mercedes 230 G Popemobile, Netherlands 1985. Pope John Paul II standing in the glass-topped Mercedes-Benz 230 G popemobile during the Marian procession in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, May 1985. Mercedes had built the first G-Class popemobile for the Pope's 1980 visit to Germany, and the conversion became the template for papal vehicles for the next two decades. This is a genuine period press photograph from the Dutch national photo agency Anefo.
14. 1990 — Daimler-Benz archive film on the revised Gelaendewagen. A Daimler-Benz corporate film held under an archive reference, presenting a comprehensively revised G model as a more comfortable cross-country vehicle. It documents the point at which the utilitarian Gelaendewagen began to be sold as a civilised road car.
15. 1993-01-01 — Hellenic Army G-Wagens in Somalia, 1993. Hellenic Army soldiers convoying through Somali streets in Mercedes G-Class vehicles during the UN operation in Somalia, 1993. Greece was one of the largest military G-Class operators, having licence-assembled the vehicle domestically. A genuine period US military photograph in the public domain.
16. 1993-09-10 — Papal escort passing the Scottish Club, Tallinn 1993. The papal motorcade in Tallinn in 1993, showing the G-Class popemobile in convoy. Photographs like this capture the vehicle in service rather than on a stand.
17. 1993-09-10 — The Popemobile in newly independent Estonia, 1993. John Paul II in the Mercedes G-Class popemobile in Tallinn in September 1993, on the first papal visit to the Baltic states after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The same vehicle type had by then been used on papal visits across four continents. A genuine 1993 photograph, not a later reconstruction.
18. 1995 — Period promotional films on building the first W463 G-Class. Two promotional films run back to back: the first walks through how the G is manufactured, the second through the range of uses the vehicle was sold for. Forty minutes of period corporate footage of the first W463 generation, not a modern retrospective.
19. 1996-01-01 — NATO IFOR vehicles in Bosnia, 1996. NATO Implementation Force vehicles in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1996, including G-Class light utility vehicles. The G was by then standard equipment in a dozen NATO armies and became one of the visual signatures of the Balkan peacekeeping deployments.
20. 1997-01-01 — A Greek 240 GD carrying an M40 recoilless rifle, 1997. A Hellenic Army Mercedes 240 GD converted into a weapons carrier for an M40 106 mm recoilless rifle, with a metal guard fitted to protect the engine from the gun's backblast. Conversions like this show how far armies pushed the basic chassis. Genuine 1990s photograph.
21. 1999-06-14 — John Paul II in Sosnowiec, 1999. The G-Class popemobile during John Paul II's 1999 pilgrimage to Poland. By this point the vehicle had been in papal service for nearly twenty years and was instantly recognisable worldwide.
22. 2002-01-01 — Bundeswehr 'Wolf' on patrol in Kosovo, 2002. A Mercedes-Benz 250 GD 'Wolf' of the German Task Force Prizren on patrol in Kosovo in 2002. 'Wolf' is the Bundeswehr's designation for its G-Class fleet, of which it bought more than 12,000 from 1979 onwards. Genuine in-service photograph rather than a display vehicle.
23. 2003 — Brabus G V12 Biturbo. A Brabus G V12 Biturbo displayed at the 2003 Frankfurt IAA. German tuners turned the G-Class into an extreme luxury object well before Mercedes did, and cars like this pointed directly at the later factory AMG models.
24. 2004 — Bundeswehr Wolf, Engineer Battalion 701, 2004. A Mercedes-Benz 'Wolf' of German Engineer Battalion 701 photographed in Gera in 2004. The Wolf is a W461 derivative in a range of body styles - hardtop, soft-top, ambulance, command vehicle - all sharing the same chassis.
25. 2004 — A 2005 G-Class on the show stand. A W463 G-Class at the 2004 San Francisco International Auto Show. The G-Class was officially imported to the United States only from 2002, after years of grey-market imports, and its arrival there transformed the car's commercial fortunes.
26. 2005 — Norwegian Army MB 240 GD. A Norwegian Army Mercedes-Benz 240 GD, designated MB-240GD in Norwegian service. Norway bought the G-Class in large numbers from the early 1980s to replace its Land Rovers, and kept them in service for decades in Arctic conditions.
27. 2005 — Inside a military G-Wagen. The interior of a Norwegian Army MB 240 GD. The military cabin is stripped to painted metal, canvas seats and the bare minimum of instrumentation - a useful contrast with the leather-lined civilian W463 of the same era.
28. 2006-06-15 — A 230 G with special bodywork. A Mercedes-Benz 230 G fitted with a special raised body of the kind used for the papal conversions and for parade and inspection vehicles. The G-Class chassis was chosen for these jobs because it could carry a tall, heavy superstructure and still crawl through a crowd at walking pace. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2006.
29. 2008 — Canadian Land Forces G-Wagen. A Mercedes-Benz G-Class of the Canadian Army. Canada bought around 1,150 G-Wagens from 2003 for reconnaissance and military police work, many of them armoured, and deployed them in Afghanistan.
30. 2008 — German G-Wagens on ISAF operations in Afghanistan. German Bundeswehr vehicles including G-Class 'Wolf' variants on ISAF duty in Afghanistan. Afghanistan exposed the limits of the unarmoured G and drove the development of protected variants such as the LAPV Enok and the Serval.
31. 2009 — A G-Class body on the Graz assembly line. A G-Class under construction on the Magna Steyr line in Graz in 2009. The G is still built with an unusually high proportion of hand work: bodies are hand-welded and painted, and each car is largely assembled by a small team rather than a fully automated line. This is one of very few freely licensed photographs from inside the factory.
32. 2009 — Hand-built: the G-Class production line at Graz. Another view of the Magna Steyr G-Class line in Graz, 2009. The ladder-frame chassis and separate body construction had by then been essentially unchanged for thirty years. Production volumes were small enough that the line ran at a walking pace.
33. 2009-06-22 — Mercedes 300 GE on the Schoeckl at the 30-years G-Class owners' meeting. Trackside and onboard footage of a 300 GE working over the Schoeckl off-road course above Graz during the international G-Class owners' meeting of 18-21 June 2009. The Schoeckl is the mountain used as the model's original proving ground, so an owners' run over it is as much a pilgrimage as a drive.
34. 2009-06-29 — A G-Class commercial that was never broadcast. A short Mercedes-Benz G-Class advertising film which, according to the uploader, was never aired on television. It reached its audience through enthusiast circulation rather than through the brand's own channels.
35. 2010-11-10 — The Graz-Thondorf plant where every G-Wagen is built. The Steyr-Daimler-Puch works at Graz-Thondorf in southern Austria, extended between 1975 and 1978 specifically to build the Geländewagen. Every single G-Class since 1979 has been assembled here rather than in Stuttgart, first by Steyr-Daimler-Puch and since 2001 by its successor Magna Steyr. The plant is the physical reason the car was sold as a 'Puch G' in Austria. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2010.
36. 2010-12-26 — Motorvision replays a period G-Modell advertisement. An instalment of Motorvision's 'Historische Autowerbung' strand, which replays vintage German car commercials; this episode covers the Mercedes G-Modell. It is a modern television package built around an older advertisement.
37. 2011 — Dutch Army MB 290 GD. A Royal Netherlands Army Mercedes-Benz 290 GD. The Dutch armed forces operated several thousand W461-based G-Wagens across the army, navy and marechaussee from the early 1990s.
38. 2011-07-30 — 230 G Cabriolet, short wheelbase. A short-wheelbase 230 G Cabriolet. In the early 1980s this was the cheapest way into a G-Wagen and the version closest to the original military concept: two doors, a canvas top and very little else. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2011.
39. 2011-12-21 — Mercedes-Benz USA advertisement: the G-Class against winter. A short Mercedes-Benz USA brand film pitching the G-Class as a cold-weather off-roader that snow and ice cannot stop. It shows how the marque sold the Gelaendewagen into the American market in 2011: rugged capability marketed as luxury.
40. 2012-01-24 — Driving a Front Runner-equipped Gelaendewagen Entdecker in South Africa. Expedition Portal's Scott Brady drives a Mercedes-Benz Entdecker fitted out by Front Runner across South African terrain. The film shows the G-Class in its overlanding role, loaded with expedition kit rather than presented as a showroom object.
41. 2012-03-10 — G 500 Edition Select and G 300 CDI Professional PUR on the Schoeckl. Two special-edition G-Class models, the G 500 'Edition Select' and the G 300 CDI Professional 'Edition PUR', driven on the Schoeckl off-road testing area at Graz. The pairing sets the two ends of the range side by side: an equipment-heavy luxury edition and a stripped, work-oriented one.
42. 2012-03-17 — A history of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. A near six-minute survey of the G-Class from its origins onwards, assembled by an enthusiast channel. It is a retrospective overview of the model line rather than period footage.
43. 2012-06-01 — The 1980 Mercedes-Benz 230 G Popemobile. A short film on the 230 G built in 1980 to carry Pope John Paul II during his visit to Germany, with a raised rear floor and a transparent dome over the Pope's bench. It was the first G-Class adapted for papal use and the vehicle that attached the 'Popemobile' name to the model.
44. 2012 — W461 Professional flatbed. A Mercedes-Benz G 300 CDI Professional with a flatbed body on the W461 chassis, photographed in Stuttgart in 2012. The W461 line was kept alive alongside the luxury W463 for exactly this kind of customer - armies, utilities, aid agencies and mining companies.
45. 2012-09-26 — Bobtail G-Class rock crawling at the Ehden 4x4 challenge. Competition footage of a shortened 'bobtail' G-Class running 37-inch tyres on beadlocks with front and rear diff locks at the Ehden Spirit 4x4 challenge in Lebanon. The uploader notes it has been re-engined with a Chevrolet 350 V8, which is typical of the heavily rebuilt G-Class used in serious off-road competition.
46. 2013-06-05 — The Iron Schoeckl: a G-Class on a 100 percent gradient. A G-Class climbs and descends the Iron Schoeckl, a steel ramp rig that reproduces the 100 percent gradient of the Schoeckl test mountain. It is how Mercedes-Benz demonstrates the model's climbing angle to people who will never take one up the real mountain.
47. 2013 — The G 63 AMG 6x6. The Mercedes-AMG G 63 6x6, launched in 2013 and derived from a three-axle G-Wagen built for the Australian Army. It combined portal axles, six driven wheels, five differential locks and a 544 hp twin-turbo V8 with a leather-lined pickup body. Roughly 100 were built, all sold.
48. 2013 — The W463 interior after three facelifts. The cabin of a W463 G 350 BlueTEC in 2013. By this point the G had a wood-and-leather interior and a modern infotainment screen bolted into a dashboard architecture that dated back to 1990. The three round differential-lock switches remained where they had always been.
49. 2013-06-21 — Annual meeting of the Mercedes-Benz G-Klasse Club, June 2013. Footage shot alongside a photo session at the German G-Klasse Club's 2013 annual gathering, including many G-Class vehicles running an off-road trial. It is a look at the owner community that has carried the model's culture between generations.
50. 2013-12-24 — Photographing 24 G-Class models for a Mercedes-Benz advent calendar. Behind the scenes at the Munich Mercedes-Benz branch as 24 different G-Class vehicles are photographed one by one for the branch's advent calendar. The shoot assembles an unusual cross-section of variants in a single place.
51. 2014-02-12 — GRIP tests the G 63 AMG 6x6 in the Dubai desert. German motoring show GRIP takes the six-wheel-drive G 63 AMG 6x6 into the desert outside Dubai with presenter Det Mueller driving. The programme frames it as the most expensive, heaviest and largest off-roader Mercedes-Benz had ever built, and the dune running shows what six driven wheels do in soft sand.
52. 2014-05-02 — Carbuyer road-tests the G-Class. A consumer road test weighing the G-Class's on-road manners against its off-road ability. The verdict the channel quotes, that it is wanting as a road vehicle but in a league of its own off road, captures the tension that defined the car in its later years.
53. 2014 — Richard Hammond drives the G63 6x6 in Abu Dhabi. A television film in which Richard Hammond takes the six-wheeled Mercedes-AMG G63 6x6 into the dunes of Abu Dhabi, including a water crossing and dune driving. The 6x6 was a low-volume factory build on portal axles that led directly to the later 4x4² road car.
54. 2014 — Six wheels, five diff locks. Another view of the G 63 AMG 6x6. The military three-axle G-Wagen it was based on had been built for Australia since 2007; the AMG version simply made the idea absurd and expensive.
55. 2014-09-17 — Long-wheelbase 230 GE. The long-wheelbase five-door W460, the body style that carried most of the civilian sales volume. The extra 400 mm of wheelbase turned the Geländewagen from a two-seat working tool into something a family or a survey team could actually live in. This body style has been in the catalogue continuously since 1979. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2014.
56. 2014-11-16 — Top Gear drives the G 63 AMG 6x6 in Abu Dhabi. Richard Hammond drives the six-wheeled G 63 AMG 6x6 through the dunes of Abu Dhabi for series 21 of Top Gear, which notes the vehicle's origins in a machine developed for the Australian military. The film gave the 6x6 the mainstream audience that turned it from a niche derivative into the G-Class's most recognisable halo car.
57. 2015-01-06 — 300 GD, the five-cylinder diesel. A 1981 Mercedes-Benz 300 GD in long-wheelbase station-wagon form. This was the top diesel of the original W460 range and the model most often specified by government and expedition users. Its OM617 five-cylinder engine is one of the most durable diesels Mercedes ever built. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2015.
58. 2015-02-20 — First drive of the Mercedes-Benz G 500 4x4 squared in Andalusia. GTspirit drives the G 500 4x4 squared at an exclusive preview in Andalusia, Spain, covering road behaviour, off-road running and onboard footage. The 4x4 squared took the portal-axle idea from the 6x6 and applied it to a two-axle car, and this is early footage of it working.
59. 2015 — Latvian Army G-Class. A Latvian Army Mercedes-Benz G-Class. After joining NATO, several Baltic states acquired G-Wagens as their standard light tactical vehicle, in some cases second-hand from German stocks.
60. 2015 — The G 500 4x4². ², shown in 2015, took the portal axles and huge ground clearance from the 6x6 and put them under a normal two-axle G-Class body. It sat about 45 cm higher than a standard G and was the last of the extreme factory specials before the 2018 redesign.
61. 2015-07-16 — Gunther Holtorf's lecture on 26 years around the world in a 300 GD. A two-hour talk given at the Mercedes-Benz Berlin branch by Gunther Holtorf, who drove his 300 GD through every drivable country on earth over 26 years. His late wife Christine named the blue G 'Otto', and the couple lived in the vehicle throughout, which is what let them reach places far from any infrastructure.
62. 2016-05-20 — What is underneath the Mercedes G 500 4x4 squared. The Drive's Chris Cantle goes under the portal-axled G 500 4x4 squared with Jonathan Ward of ICON 4x4 to work through its mechanical layout. It is the most technical look at the 4x4 squared in this set, explaining the hardware rather than the spectacle.
63. 2016 — G 63 AMG 6x6, three axles. The G 63 AMG 6x6 from the rear, showing the pickup bed and tandem rear axles. Its tyre-pressure control system, borrowed from the military version, let the driver deflate and reinflate all six tyres from the cabin.
64. 2016 — Portal axles on a road car. A G 500 4x4² showing the portal axles that raise the differentials above wheel-centre height. The design was borrowed straight from the military G and gave the car a ground clearance no other production road car could match.
65. 2016-09-17 — Mike Horn's Pole2Pole expedition with the G-Class. Coverage of Mike Horn's Pole2Pole round-the-world expedition, which set out from Monaco on 8 May 2016 and alternates between his boat Pangaea, skis, kayak and a Mercedes-Benz G-Class. The G-Class carries the land legs of a route running pole to pole via Africa, Antarctica, Oceania, Asia, the Arctic and North America.
66. 2016-09-27 — A 250 GD finding its limits off road. Unnarrated amateur footage of a diesel 250 GD being pushed through rough terrain. It is the kind of unvarnished owner film that shows what the work-specification G-Class actually does, away from any press launch.
67. 2016-12-01 — G for Graz: the 20,000th G-Class of the year at Magna Steyr. A short film marking a record year at the Magna Steyr plant in Graz, where the 20,000th G-Class of 2016 was built. Mercedes-Benz notes the model has been produced there on its behalf since 1979 and that more than a quarter of a million have been made.
68. 2016-12-14 — Inside the Greywolf expedition camper built on a G 300 Professional. A walkthrough of the interior of the 4x4CAMP 'Greywolf', an expedition camper built on a Mercedes-Benz G 300 Professional. It shows how the utilitarian G-Class gets converted into a self-sufficient long-distance travel vehicle.
69. 2016-12-19 — A G-Class test driver on the Schoeckl. Test driver Erwin 'Air' Wonisch, involved in G-Class development since 1976, guides a 44-minute run around the Schoeckl near Graz, the model's original testing ground. It is the closest thing in this set to a first-hand account of how the vehicle is proved, told from the driver's seat.
70. 2017-02-08 — Camouflaged next-generation G-Class caught winter testing. Spy footage of the then-unreleased 2018 G-Class running under camouflage in winter conditions, published roughly a year before the reveal. It captures the development phase of the redesign that replaced the body Mercedes-Benz had built since 1979.
71. 2017-02-27 — 4X4 Australia judges the G Professional G 300. The utilitarian G Professional G 300 is assessed as a contender in 4X4 Australia's 2017 4x4 of the Year. The magazine notes the G-Class is Mercedes-Benz's longest-running model and predates Toyota's 70 Series, and judges it as a working vehicle rather than a luxury one.
72. 2017-04-11 — Doug DeMuro's detailed look at the G 550 4x4 squared. A long, systematic walk through the quirks and features of the portal-axled G 550 4x4 squared, which the presenter puts at around 250,000 dollars in the United States. It is the most thorough consumer-facing catalogue of what the 4x4 squared actually consists of.
73. 2017-04-21 — Mercedes driving events and the Iron Schoeckl rig. A ten-minute look at the Mercedes-Benz driving events where customers get to use the G-Class properly, including the Iron Schoeckl rig that reproduces a 100 percent climb. The channel notes that few owners ever push the model to the limits its engineers design for.
74. 2017-05-23 — German Army G-Class vehicles on close protection duty in Kabul. Footage of Bundeswehr G-Class vehicles working with a close protection team in Kabul, Afghanistan under NATO. Military service is where the Gelaendewagen began, and it continued in that role alongside the increasingly luxurious civilian versions.
75. 2017 — Chilean Army 290 GD. A Mercedes-Benz 290 GD of the Chilean Army. South American armies were significant G-Class customers; the Argentine Army was in fact the vehicle's first military customer, taking delivery from 1981, and the vehicle was later assembled in Argentina.
76. 2017 — G-Class 4x4² in white. A G 500 4x4² in white. Only around 300 were built before production ended, and they now trade for more than they cost new.
77. 2017-06-30 — Chris Harris drives the G 500 4x4 squared. Chris Harris puts the portal-axled G 500 4x4 squared through its paces for Top Gear. It is the sharpest driving assessment of the model in this set.
78. 2017-07-29 — Finding and restoring a 1980s W460 G-Wagen, part one. The first part of an owner's account of finding and restoring a 1980s W460 G-Wagen. Restoration footage of the first civilian generation is comparatively rare next to the coverage the modern car attracts.
79. 2017-08-25 — A night inside Otto, the 300 GD that circled the world. One last spontaneous drive and an overnight stay inside 'Otto', the 300 GD in which Gunther Holtorf travelled for 26 years, filmed in 2016 shortly before the vehicle became an exhibit at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. It is a close look at how a G-Class was actually lived in across a quarter of a century on the road.
80. 2017-12-01 — Strong Stories: a G-Class along the Silk Road to Singapore. Annette and Stefan Hauser followed the Silk Road across Asia to Singapore in their G-Class and returned by way of a detour through Africa. Their trip is one of the owner journeys Mercedes-Benz collected under its Strong Stories banner.
81. 2018-01-05 — First ride in the new 2018 G-Class on the Schoeckl. GTspirit rides down the Schoeckl with a Mercedes-Benz G test driver in the new 2018 G-Class and compares it directly against an earlier run in the old G 500. The channel reports a wider track and a new suspension developed with AMG making the car markedly more stable off road.
82. 2018-01-14 — Launch review of the W464 G-Class at Detroit. A full walkthrough of the redesigned W464 G-Class at its launch at the 2018 Detroit auto show, covering exterior, interior and engines. It is the detailed civilian look at the first full redesign of the G-Class since 1979.
83. 2018-01-15 — World premiere of the W464 G-Class in Detroit. The full launch presentation of the new G-Class at the 2018 Detroit motor show, with Arnold Schwarzenegger appearing on stage. It is the manufacturer's own staging of the handover from the body it had built since 1979 to the redesigned car.
84. 2018-01-27 — Overlanding a 300 GD through South Africa and Namibia. Ten minutes with a Mercedes-Benz G 300 GD modified for African overlanding, filmed across South Africa and Namibia. It is owner footage of the vehicle doing the long-distance work it was built for.
85. 2018-03-25 — The 230 G, the petrol entry model of 1979. A Mercedes-Benz 230 G, one of the four models the Geländewagen launched with in 1979: the 230 G and 280 GE petrol, the 240 GD and 300 GD diesel. The 230 G used a 2.3-litre carburettor petrol four making about 90 hp, which in a two-tonne off-roader made it deliberately slow and deliberately unbreakable. The flat panels, exposed hinges and bolt-on wheel arches were all chosen so field repairs could be done with hand tools. Photographed at Techno-Classica Essen) of a preserved 1979-era car - NOT a period photograph. The vehicle is period; the photograph is not.
86. 2018-03-25 — The 240 GD, the launch diesel. The 240 GD was the smaller of the two launch diesels, a 2.4-litre four making roughly 72 hp. It became the standard military and utility version across Europe and formed the basis of most NATO fleet orders through the 1980s. Its reputation rested entirely on the fact that it would keep running when nothing else would. Photographed at Techno-Classica Essen), preserved car, not period. The vehicle is period; the photograph is not.
87. 2018-04-12 — Making of the 2018 G-Class in Graz. Production and development footage for the 2018 G-Class from the plant in Graz, released as part of the manufacturer's launch campaign. Mercedes-Benz states that more than 300,000 G-Class vehicles had been delivered since production started in 1979 and that each one can be specified to the customer's requirements.
88. 2018-05-04 — The most unusual variants of the G-Class. A twenty-minute survey of rare G-Class derivatives, including the 300 GD Cabriolet, the 300 GD 'Otto', the 500 GE, short and long wheelbase 230 station wagons and a 230 G fire-service cabriolet. It is a useful catalogue of how many different vehicles have been built on one basic architecture.
89. 2018 — G 63 AMG. A Mercedes-AMG G 63. AMG began offering V8 G-Classes in the 1990s; by the 2010s the G 63 was the volume model in many markets, and the car that turned a military off-roader into a fashion object.
90. 2018 — The 2018 redesign. The G-Class after its 2018 redesign - the first full redesign in 39 years. The new car kept the silhouette, the door handles and the exposed hinges but replaced the front live axle with independent suspension, widened the body and rebuilt the interior around a modern Mercedes architecture. Internally it is the W464, though Mercedes confusingly continued to market it under the W463 name.
91. 2018 — Magna Steyr Graz, 2018. The Magna Steyr complex in Graz in 2018, the year the fully redesigned W464 G-Class entered production here. Magna Steyr is a contract manufacturer that also builds cars for BMW, Jaguar and Toyota, but the G-Class is the line it has run longest. The G-Class assembly hall is the direct descendant of the 'Gelände-Fahrzeug GmbH' joint venture set up in the late 1970s.
92. 2018 — A fire-service 230 G still in use. A Mercedes-Benz 230 G in Mosbach fire brigade service, bodied by Bachert. Fire and rescue services kept W460s running for thirty years and more, which is one reason so many early cars survive.
93. 2018 — Swiss Army G 300 CDI. A Swiss Army Mercedes-Benz G 300 CDI on the W461 chassis. Switzerland was one of the countries where the vehicle was badged and sold as a Puch G, and it remains a core Swiss military vehicle.
94. 2018-07-15 — Heinrich Wangler on the 1979 Argentine army comparison test. Heinrich Wangler recounts the comparison test the Mercedes-Benz G was put through for the Argentine military in 1979: ten weeks and 13,000 kilometres crossing the whole country. The account comes from one of the people who ran the trial and was edited by his daughter. Military evaluations like this one were an early proving ground for the newly launched Geländewagen.
95. 2018-07-30 — "Stronger Than Time" campaign film for the 2018 G-Class. Mercedes-Benz's launch film for the redesigned G-Class, built on the claim that the car is made from unique DNA and built for extreme challenges. It is the marketing framing the brand chose for the first ground-up redesign of the model since 1979.
96. 2018-11-14 — In-depth review of the 2019 Mercedes-AMG G 63. A long road review of the new AMG G 63, setting the deliberately retro exterior against an interior dominated by two large screens, and asking whether the six-figure price is justified. It became one of the most watched reviews of the redesigned G-Class.
97. 2018-12-13 — Quirks and features of the 2019 G 550. A detailed walkthrough and drive of the redesigned 2019 G-Class in G 550 form, working through what the new car kept from the original and what changed inside. One of the defining reviews of the W464's launch year.
98. 2019-01-17 — Two presenters take the G-Class up the Schöckl. Mercedes-Benz's own twenty-minute film on the Schöckl, the mountain outside Graz where every G-Class has to prove itself before it is signed off. Several variants appear, including the G 500 and the AMG G 63.
99. 2019-01-18 — W460 G-Wagen restoration: the finished car. The final part of the "Saving Private Iggy" series, in which a W460 G-Wagen is revealed after a full strip-down restoration. Owner rebuilds of this depth are a large part of why first-generation cars survive at all.
100. 2019-01-30 — A life-size G-Class carved from ice on Plan de Corones. Press footage of a full-size G-Class sculpted out of more than twelve tonnes of ice by the artist Francesco Falasconi, built in four days at the top of the Kronplatz / Plan de Corones peak at 2,275 metres. It was staged around the model's fortieth anniversary.
101. 2019-02-27 — Euro NCAP crash tests the 2019 G-Class. The official Euro NCAP programme run on the redesigned G-Class: frontal impact into a rigid barrier, offset frontal into a deformable barrier, a pole test and a side impact. Euro NCAP has since confirmed that the electric G-Class variant shares this 2019 rating.
102. 2019-03-12 — Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur win the Paris-Dakar. Mercedes-Benz's archive clip on the G's victory in the passenger car category of the Paris-Dakar desert rally, with Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur driving. It remains the model's best-known competition result.
103. 2019-05-03 — The shape that never changed. A 1984 230 GE in profile, showing the strictly rectilinear body that would survive essentially untouched for 39 years. The flat glass, the vertical windscreen and the spare wheel hung on the tailgate were all packaging decisions made for a military brief, not a styling one. Mercedes kept them because customers refused to let them go. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2019.
104. 2019 — A W461 in German civil-protection service. A Mercedes-Benz G-Class (W461) of the Technisches Hilfswerk, Germany's federal disaster-relief agency. Alongside armies, the utilitarian W461 found its market with fire services, mountain rescue and civil-protection agencies.
105. 2019 — G-Class production, modern era. A modern view of G-Class production at Graz. The 2018 W464 redesign required substantial retooling but kept the same site and much of the same hand-assembly philosophy.
106. 2019-06-18 — Off-road test drive at the G-Class Experience Center, no commentary. Twelve minutes of unnarrated footage of the G-Class working through extreme terrain at the Experience Center near the Graz production site, sourced from Mercedes-Benz. With no talking over it, it reads as a raw record of the course and of how the vehicle handles it.
107. 2019-08-22 — Ex-German Army G-Class ambulance walkaround. A close look at a 1997 Mercedes-Benz G-Class ambulance that served with the German army until 2017, when it was handed over to an ASB regional office in northern Hesse. The showcase is deliberately filmed without music so the vehicle and its fittings can be gone through directly.
108. 2019-10-09 — Forty years of the G-Class. Mercedes-Benz's short anniversary film marking forty years of the G-Class, framed as forty years of performance and passion. It restates the 1979 starting point the brand keeps returning to whenever it talks about the model.
109. 2019-10-31 — 'Otto', the 300 GD that crossed 179 countries. Gunther Holtorf's 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 GD, nicknamed Otto, photographed in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart where it now sits. Between 1989 and 2014 Holtorf drove it roughly 900,000 kilometres through 179 countries, for much of that time with his partner Christine, who died in 2010. It is the single best-documented case of what the G-Class was actually designed to do. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2019.
110. 2019-12-16 — The G 63 AMG 6x6 driven and dismantled feature by feature. A half-hour walkthrough and road drive of the three-axle, six-wheel-drive G 63 AMG 6x6. It covers the quirks of a road-legal six-wheeled pickup and what living with one actually looks like away from the desert imagery it was sold on.
111. 2019-12-17 — Review of the portal-axle G 550 4x4 Squared. A review of the G 550 4x4², the factory portal-axle G, quoted here at 415 hp and 450 lb-ft from a four-litre twin-turbo V8 and CAD 268,500. The hosts weigh it against the other extreme factory G-Class variants, the G 63 6x6 and the AMG cars.
112. 2020-08-07 — A 1981 W460 climbs a forty-degree slope. A first-generation W460 Geländewagen takes a dry forty-degree climb using four-wheel drive and its differential locks. Unedited amateur footage of the mechanical basics the whole model was built around.
113. 2020-10-01 — Project Thor: fighting the rust in a 1988 300 GD body. The second episode of an owner restoration in which two friends, having completely disassembled a 1988 W460 300 GD, try to bring the rust-ridden bodywork back. It is an honest look at how far corrosion goes on a first-generation car and what saving one really costs in labour.
114. 2020-10-18 — A recreation of the Paris-Dakar Porsche support G-Wagen. A short film about a detailed recreation of the Mercedes G-Wagen that ran support for the Porsche team on the Paris-Dakar rally in the mid-1980s. The video's title and its own description give different years for the event, so the exact edition should be treated as unconfirmed.
115. 2020-11-07 — Overlanding to Morocco in a G-Class. Drone and action footage from an off-road overlanding trip to Morocco in a G-Class carrying a roof tent. It is the long-distance travel use the model was originally designed for, rather than the urban role it later took on.
116. 2021-02-06 — Fitting a turbocharger to a W460 300 GD. A time-lapse of a turbocharger being fitted to the OM617 diesel of a 1990 W460 300 GD. Mechanical, unnarrated owner work on the naturally aspirated first-generation diesel.
117. 2021-05-04 — G 550 4x4 Squared and a 1976 Unimog on Hell's Gate, Moab. A 2017 G 550 4x4² and a 1976 Unimog 416 Doka run the Hells Revenge trail in Moab, including the Hells Gate obstacle. Rare footage of the factory portal-axle G being used on genuinely hard rock alongside the older Mercedes off-road workhorse.
118. 2021-05-19 — Rust-proofing a G-Model: the classic weak points. A German classic-car specialist goes through the typical corrosion weak points of the G-Model and shows the preparation for a cavity treatment with Mike Sanders grease. Practical ownership detail for the generation of cars that is now old enough to rot away.
119. 2021-06-06 — The panel-van G, sold to utilities and armies. A short-wheelbase panel van W460. Windowless commercial bodies like this were sold to utilities, forestry services and armies and almost never survive, which is why period photographs of them are scarce. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2021.
120. 2021 — Concept EQG, Munich 2021. The Concept EQG shown at the 2021 IAA in Munich, Mercedes' announcement that the G-Class would go electric. It kept the box shape and swapped the spare-wheel cover for a squared-off box housing the charging equipment. It previewed the production G 580 that arrived in 2024.
121. 2021-06-18 — 250 GD, the workhorse diesel. The 250 GD replaced the 240 GD in 1987 with a 2.5-litre five-cylinder diesel. It became the basis for the Bundeswehr's 'Wolf' and for military orders across Europe, and is the single most-produced G-Class variant of the era. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2021.
122. 2021-07-10 — Water wading, stairs and mud in a G 500. Extended footage of a current G-Class driven through deep water, up steps and through mud, with a walkaround of the car in G 500 form. It is one of the most watched demonstrations of the redesigned car actually being taken off the road.
123. 2021-07-14 — The Brabus G800, a tuned V12 G-Class. A full review of the Brabus G800, a maxed-out version of the twelve-cylinder Mercedes-AMG G 65, including an acceleration run. It shows how far the aftermarket pushed the G-Class beyond even AMG's own output and pricing.
124. 2021-07-17 — History of the G-Wagen, first instalment. The opening episode of a four-part history of the G-Class, assembled from Mercedes-Benz and other archive material by an owner-enthusiast who also restores the cars himself. It is the most carefully sourced of the model histories in this batch.
125. 2021-09-13 — The 230 G Popemobile at the Mercedes-Benz Museum. The Vatican-registered Mercedes-Benz 230 G Popemobile filmed on display in Stuttgart. A first-generation G bodyshell was the base for one of the most recognisable ceremonial vehicles ever built.
126. 2021-10-03 — Puch G and Pinzgauer on the Hellsklamm trail. Thirteen minutes of off-road footage from a Pinzgauer day on the Hellsklamm trail, with Puch-badged G-Models running alongside Pinzgauers. The Puch name on these cars comes from Steyr-Daimler-Puch, the Austrian partner under which the G was sold in some markets.
127. 2021-12-16 — How the G-Wagen went from military vehicle to status symbol. A fast, well-researched history of the G-Class tracing how a highly capable off-roader designed for hard use became a luxury status symbol, and asking whether the current car is still as capable as its military ancestors. An overview rather than an archive piece, but the most watched telling of the story.
128. 2022-01-04 — A 1989 Steyr-Daimler-Puch 280 GE starting up. Start-up and idle of a 1989 280 GE badged as a Steyr-Daimler-Puch rather than a Mercedes-Benz. The badge is the visible trace of the Austrian partner that has assembled every G-Class in Graz since 1979.
129. 2022-01-05 — The Bundeswehr Wolf with special protection package. The German armed forces' own briefing on the armoured Sonderschutzausstattung version of the Wolf, the G-Class-based vehicle that is the best-known Geländewagen in Bundeswehr service. It adds armour, a stronger engine, better acceleration and a higher top speed, with the glass and the whole body structure armoured against light machine-gun fire.
130. 2022-04-20 — SUV Superbuild documentary on the G-Wagen, third part. A television documentary segment on the G-Wagen, framed around a vehicle originally conceived for military and municipal duty that became one of the longest-running designs Mercedes-Benz has ever produced. Part three of the series.
131. 2022 — The 2018-generation interior. The interior of a post-2018 G-Class, with twin widescreen displays and turbine air vents shared with the S-Class. The three differential-lock buttons survived the redesign and sit in a row on the centre of the dashboard - the one piece of switchgear Mercedes was not allowed to move.
132. 2022-08-15 — Military G-Wagons on operations in Afghanistan. Field footage of military G-Wagons in Afghanistan, where the type is used by field units and training establishments for tactical transport in command and control, liaison, reconnaissance and military police roles. The vehicles shown run a 2.7-litre five-cylinder turbodiesel and can be fitted with a tailored armour kit.
133. 2022-09-06 — A first drive in a G-Class, from a sceptic. A reviewer who had never driven a G-Class finally gets one and reports back on what the car is actually like on the road, against its reputation as a London status object. The verdict is not what he expected going in.
134. 2022-11-04 — The Brabus 900 XLP, a G-Class turned pickup. A review of the Brabus 900 XLP, a G-Class converted into a raised pickup with a load bed and extensive carbon bodywork, much of the venting on it decorative. The presenter is openly unnerved by driving it, which is a fair reading of what the conversion does to the car.
135. 2022-12-04 — A G 500 prepared for rally raid. A Mercedes-Benz G 500 prepared for rally-raid competition. Privateers kept the G in desert racing long after the factory effort ended, sustaining the link back to the 1983 Paris-Dakar win. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2022.
136. 2023-02-09 — The G-Class Experience Center and factory collection in Graz. Mercedes-Benz's own film following a presenter through the Experience Center in Graz, up the G Rock and around the off-road and water stations. It also shows the factory collection programme for customers taking delivery of a new G-Class, with the head of G-Class sales and product management, the delivery project lead and an instructor on camera.
137. 2023-03-09 — Inside the G-Class production line at Magna Steyr. A chaptered walk through G-Class manufacturing at Magna Steyr in Graz: welding shop, paint shop, body assembly and the leather shop. A large part of the G-Class body is still welded by hand, which is the reason the car has stayed a low-volume, hand-built product for its whole life.
138. 2023-04-15 — Sold as a Puch G in Austria. A 1995 W463 cabriolet badged as a Puch G. Because the car was built by Steyr-Daimler-Puch in Graz, it was sold under the Puch name in Austria, Switzerland, Yugoslavia and the COMECON countries, and as a Mercedes-Benz everywhere else. The Puch badging was dropped in the 2000s. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2023.
139. 2023-06-04 — The W463: the G-Class goes upmarket. A W463 230 GE. Introduced for the 1990 model year, the W463 kept the ladder frame and the body shape but added permanent four-wheel drive, three fully locking differentials operated by dashboard switches, ABS, carpet and wood trim. The utilitarian W461 continued in parallel, so from 1990 the G-Class was effectively two different vehicles wearing the same body. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2023.
140. 2023-06-04 — 250 GD at the end of the W460 line. A 1989 250 GD, from the last full year of W460 production before the W461 and W463 split the range in two. After 1990 the W460's direct successor, the W461, kept the simple part-time four-wheel drive for military and utility buyers. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2023.
141. 2023-06-04 — 230 GE: fuel injection arrives. The 230 GE replaced the carburettor 230 G with Bosch fuel injection, lifting output to about 125 hp. It was the first meaningful power increase the G-Class received and the version that made the car tolerable as a road vehicle. It remained on sale in W460 form until the range gave way to the W461 and W463. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2023.
142. 2023-06-17 — Brabus G800 built on the G63 4x4 squared. A walkaround of a Brabus conversion of the Mercedes-AMG G63 4x4², finished in Brabus Stealth Green, covering the exterior bodywork and the reworked interior. The 4x4² is the portal-axle version of the G-Class, and Brabus stacks its own engine tune and trim on top of it. It shows how far the aftermarket pushes the G once the factory has already built an extreme variant.
143. 2023-07-14 — The 280 GE that won the 1983 Paris-Dakar. A Mercedes-Benz 280 GE in Paris-Dakar rally specification. Jacky Ickx and Claude Brasseur won the 1983 Paris-Dakar outright in a 280 GE run by the German team Mercedes had quietly backed. It remains the G-Class's single most important competition result and did more for the model's image than any advertising campaign. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2023.
144. 2023-10-21 — Driving the 2024 Mercedes-AMG G63. A road test of the V8-powered 2024 Mercedes-AMG G63, covering how the current G-Class behaves as an everyday vehicle rather than as an off-roader. It documents the point where the G-Class is bought overwhelmingly as a luxury performance SUV.
145. 2023-12-24 — G-Class assembly line at Magna Steyr in Graz. Twenty minutes of production-line footage from the Austrian plant where every G-Class is built. The G-Class is manufactured by Magna Steyr, formerly Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and the line relies far more on hand welding and hand assembly than a normal car plant. In some markets the vehicle was sold under the Puch name rather than as a Mercedes.
146. 2024-04-04 — Two minutes descending the Schoeckl in a G-Class. Raw in-car footage of a G-Class driving back down the Schöckl, the steep mountain above Graz that Mercedes uses to sign off the model. No commentary, just the descent.
147. 2024-04-07 — Paris-Dakar 280 GE at Techno-Classica. A Paris-Dakar-liveried 280 GE displayed at Techno-Classica Essen. The rally cars were close to standard underneath - the point Mercedes wanted to make was that a showroom G-Wagen could cross the Sahara. Photographed at Techno-Classica Essen. The vehicle is period; the photograph is not.
148. 2024-04-17 — Testing the Brabus G700 against the standard G63. A driving review of the Brabus G700, a tuned version of the Mercedes-AMG G63 with wider arches, its own wheels and a reworked cabin. The video weighs whether the Brabus treatment improves on the factory AMG car at roughly triple the price.
149. 2024-04-24 — Short-wheelbase G500 on portal axles in the desert. Off-road footage of a rare short-wheelbase G500 converted to portal axles being driven in desert terrain. Portal axles raise the differentials above the wheel centres for extra ground clearance, the same principle Mercedes later used for the factory 4x4² model.
150. 2024-05-14 — Full review of the electric G580 with EQ Technology. A long-form test of the G580 with EQ Technology, the first battery-electric G-Class, which replaces the V8 with four individual electric motors. The test covers on-road behaviour, off-road capability and the G-Turn, the stationary tank turn made possible by driving the wheels on each side in opposite directions.
151. 2024-06-01 — Inside a W460: a dashboard built for gloves. The interior of a 1984 300 GD. The first-generation cabin was almost aggressively plain - painted metal, rubber mats, upright seats and switchgear sized for a driver wearing gloves. Nothing in it anticipated the car's later career as a luxury object. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2024.
152. 2024-06-06 — Mercedes explains the electric G-Class off-road drivetrain. An official Mercedes-Benz technical explainer on how the G 580 with EQ Technology keeps its off-road ability without a mechanical driveline. It walks through the four near-wheel motors and how they replace the differential locks and low range of the combustion G-Class.
153. 2024-06-15 — 280 GE, the petrol six. A Mercedes-Benz 280 GE in the Automuseum Prototyp, Hamburg. The 2.8-litre straight-six was one of the four engines available from the February 1979 launch and was the most powerful option in the range. It is also the engine used in the Paris-Dakar rally cars. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2024.
154. 2024 — G 580 with EQ Technology, Zurich 2024. The production G 580 with EQ Technology at Auto Zurich in November 2024. It uses four individual electric motors, one per wheel, which lets it replace mechanical differential locks with software and perform a 'G-Turn' - spinning on the spot by driving the wheels on each side in opposite directions.
155. 2024-07-10 — Euro NCAP crash and safety tests of the G-Class. Euro NCAP test footage of the G-Class, including the frontal barrier impact, the offset frontal impact and side impact. The 2024 update explains that additional checks were made so the rating from the 2019 test also covers the electric variant.
156. 2024-07-22 — Assessing the previous-generation W463 as a used V8 SUV. A technical review of the outgoing W463 G-Class with the twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8, looking at the interior, the mechanical layout and how it drives. It weighs the model against the Bronco Raptor and Wrangler Rubicon and discusses how the off-road heritage sits alongside the vehicle's status as a lifestyle object.
157. 2024-10-24 — Doug DeMuro reviews the 2025 G580 electric G-Wagen. A detailed quirks-and-features review of the electric G580, covering how Mercedes kept the G-Class driving character and styling while switching to an electric drivetrain. The reviewer also drives the car and discusses the price relative to the combustion models.
158. 2024-12-04 — Pope Francis receives the first all-electric popemobile. News coverage of Mercedes-Benz handing over an electric G-Class built as a popemobile in December 2024. The vehicle is intended for general audiences and official ceremonies, and is the first fully electric car used for that purpose. The G-Class has served as the base for papal parade vehicles since 1980.
159. 2024-12-18 — Demonstrating the G-Turn on the electric G-Class. A hands-on demonstration of the G-Turn, the 360-degree stationary rotation the electric G-Class can perform, including the failed attempts before it works. It shows the step-by-step sequence a driver has to follow to engage the function.
160. 2025-01-15 — The G-Class Experience Center in Graz. An official Mercedes-Benz clip on the G-Class Experience Center in Graz, Austria, where customers drive the vehicle on purpose-built obstacles near the plant that produces it. It is the public-facing side of the Schöckl testing tradition.
161. 2025-01-16 — Testing the G500 4x4 squared in deep snow. A snow test of the factory portal-axle G500 4x4², asking whether the extreme ride height is genuinely useful or purely for show. The footage documents one of the rarest factory G-Class variants being used hard rather than displayed.
162. 2025-01-17 — Review of the updated 2025 G-Class. A review running through the changes made to the G-Class for 2025 and how the vehicle compares with other large luxury four-wheel drives. It covers the on-road manners, interior and running costs of the current car.
163. 2025-01-30 — G550 against a 4Runner in deep snow. An off-road comparison between a 2015 Mercedes G550 and a 2015 Toyota 4Runner, both on 35-inch tyres, in deep snow. Both vehicles get stuck and a winch breaks during the recovery, which makes it an unusually honest record of the W463's limits away from tarmac.
164. 2025-02-18 — Testing the electric G580 in Scotland. A road and off-road test of the G580 in Scotland, asking whether the electric drivetrain undermines what makes a G-Class a G-Class. The review covers both highway behaviour and rough terrain.
165. 2025-03-07 — Review of a 1992 300GES short-wheelbase W463. A review of a short-wheelbase 1992 300GES, arguing that an early W463 is a better G-Class than a modern G63. The video is a present-day assessment of a car from the start of the W463 generation, when the luxury version still had modest engines and a simple cabin.
166. 2025-05-17 — Overland build on a 2006 G55 AMG. A walkthrough of a heavily modified 2006 G55 AMG built for overland travel, with portal axles, a central tyre inflation system, winch, skid plates and long-travel suspension. It shows how owners rebuild the luxury generation back into a serious expedition vehicle.
167. 2025-05-22 — The G 300 Professional, the utilitarian W461. A review of the G 300 Professional, the stripped-out W461 built for work rather than for show, with no screens or leather but with live axles and three differential locks. It is the closest thing on sale to the original working Geländewagen and a deliberate counterpoint to the AMG models.
168. 2025-05-27 — Driving an ex-Bundeswehr W461 Wolf off-road in Austria. A Land Cruiser owner drives a 1992 military W461 "Wolf" through Hellsklamm, an extreme off-road park in Austria. The car has no luxury equipment at all, only diesel torque and mechanical lockers, which shows what the Steyr-Puch-built military G-Class was actually designed to do.
169. 2025-06-08 — Used G-Class buyer's guide filmed in Austria. A buyer's guide filmed in Austria, the country where the G-Class is built, with a military 461 Wolf owner and a Mercedes dealer who restores and sells G-Wagons. They cover which generations and engines to look for and where rust and mechanical problems appear.
170. 2025 — G 580, model year 2025. A 2025 Mercedes-Benz G 580 with EQ Technology, factory code W465. Its ~116 kWh battery gives roughly 470 km of range, and it weighs over three tonnes - more than double the 1979 230 G.
171. 2025 — The electric G in polar white. A G 580 with EQ Technology in polar white. Forty-six years after the first Geländewagen left Graz, the electric version is still built in the same Austrian factory and still looks like a box.
172. 2025-06-23 — The off-road driving course at the Graz Experience Center. A 4K run through the off-road course at the G-Class Experience Center beside the Graz plant, including the obstacles customers drive on the Schöckl programme. The description notes the centre has run for five years and hosted around 3,000 customers in the previous year alone.
173. 2025-08-12 — Brabus 6x6 pickup based on the G63. A full walkaround of a Brabus six-wheeled pickup conversion of the G63, covering the exterior, cabin and the twin-turbo V8. It is the current commercial descendant of the factory G63 6x6 that Mercedes built in small numbers.
174. 2025-08-20 — Restored W460 300GD. A short film on a fully restored W460 300GD, the first-generation civilian G-Class. The restorer describes taking the body off the frame, refurbishing both separately and overhauling the engine and gearbox over ten months.
175. 2025-09-02 — The Bundeswehr presents the Wolf 2 light utility vehicle. The German armed forces' own presentation of the Wolf 2, the successor to the long-serving military G-Class, showing its off-road use and its new radio and command equipment. The Wolf name has identified the Bundeswehr's G-Class since the 1980s, and this is its digitalised replacement.
176. 2025-09-30 — Living with the electric G580. An extended test of a G580 with EQ Technology including the full options list and price of the test car, from a reviewer who expected to dislike the electric G-Class and did not. It covers day-to-day use rather than a single drive.
177. 2025-10-03 — A critical look at the electric G-Wagen. A review arguing that the G580's efficiency and range figures are poor by electric-car standards but largely beside the point for this vehicle. It is a useful counterweight to the more enthusiastic launch coverage.
178. 2025-10-13 — Plant footage of G-Class assembly in Graz. B-roll of G-Class assembly supplied by the Magna plant in Graz to a visiting journalist, who notes that no personal recording equipment is allowed inside. It shows parts of the process that visitors are not normally able to film.
179. 2025-10-19 — Report on the Bundeswehr Wolf 2. A defence-focused report on the Wolf 2, the new German army light utility vehicle based on the G-Class, covering its role and equipment. It is the independent counterpart to the Bundeswehr's own presentation of the same vehicle.
180. 2025-10-19 — The 300 GD Cabriolet of 1980. A short-wheelbase 300 GD Cabriolet from 1980, the soft-top body style that was in the range from the very first year. The five-cylinder 3.0-litre diesel was the most powerful engine offered at launch at about 88 hp. The cabriolet stayed in the catalogue for decades and became the collectors' favourite. The vehicle or site is period; this photograph was taken in 2025.
181. 2025-11-09 — First drive of the 2026 G450d diesel. An Australian first drive of the G450d, which returns diesel power to the G-Class range as the quieter and cheaper alternative to the V8 G63. The review covers pricing, specification and how it drives.
182. 2026-01-13 — TopCar Design Inferno body kit on the G63. A studio walkaround of a G63 rebodied by the tuner TopCar Design, with the quoted output and performance figures for the standard 4.0-litre V8 underneath. It documents the wide-body tuning scene that has grown around the current G-Class.
183. 2026-01-29 — The G-Class popemobile at the Mercedes-Benz Museum. A short clip of the G-Class-based popemobile displayed in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. The museum holds the original papal G-Class built in 1980, which established the G as the base for parade vehicles decades before the electric version.
184. 2026-03-13 — The Rheinmetall Caracal military G-Class. First-hand footage of the Caracal, a military vehicle built by Rheinmetall on the latest G-Class chassis and shown at the EnforceTac trade fair in Germany. It is designed for airborne and special operations use and is not sold to civilians, which closes the loop back to the G-Class's military origins.
185. 2026-03-29 — Point-of-view drive in the electric G 580. A point-of-view drive of the G 580 with EQ Technology, showing the car from the driver's seat rather than through a presenter. The reviewer asks whether an electric G-Class makes sense and concludes it might.
186. 2026-04-12 — Autobahn drive in the G63 with the AMG Drivers Package. A point-of-view drive of the current AMG G63 fitted with the Drivers Package, including sustained autobahn running and engine sound. It shows the V8 G-Class used the way most of its buyers actually use it.

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