The Best Thing About the All-New Mercedes G-Class Is It's Exactly the Same as the Old One
At least two popes — John Paul II and Benedict XVI — used it as their Popemobile. Arnold Schwarzenegger had his converted to run on electricity. The armies of Canada, Norway, Argentina, and Switzerland all use them. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia reportedly has 30 or 40, all white. It won the Dakar Rally with Jacky Ickx at the wheel. In 1975, the Shah of Iran placed an order for 20,000 of them, but the coup effectively cancelled that. A man named Gunther Holtorf drove one