Gentleman General Purpose. There's an ATV slowly idling through the underbrush to my passenger side. Its rider's eyes are glued to the metallic purple bread van consuming every last square inch of the trail: a cube of glittering lunacy resting blissfully in the dappled light of a Tennessee morning.
"I ain't never seen a Mercedes up here before."
In many ways, this machine is a massive middle finger to automotive evolution. There have only been three iterations of the G-Class since Daimler first began building examples for the Shah of Iran in 1979, and the latest of those bowed in 1990.
Autoblog , 2013 Mercedes-Benz G550, 2013 Mercedes-Benz G550
