Tuner Builds Mercedes G 500 On Tracks For Dashing Via The Snow

For instance you are a rich Swiss agronomist with a chalet at 9,843 ft (3,000 meters) within the Alps, and also you need to attain the cabin in model even within the worst climate circumstances. What do you do? This particular person commissioned Delta 4×4 to mount tracks to a Mercedes-Benz G 500.

To create the required house for the treads, Delta 4×4 offers this G-Class a 7.874-inch (20-centimeter) suspension raise. Prolonged fenders cowl the rig’s broader width.

Even within the Swiss Alps, this degree of off-road functionality is pointless throughout parts of the 12 months. The tracks are detachable, and the SUV can put on typical wheels throughout the summer time months.

Doing this conversion was an expensive enterprise. With components and set up, the monitor setup alone was €50,000 ($52,442 at present alternate charges). Plus, the items needed to be homologated In Switzerland together with testing and inspections, and that course of added roughly an extra €50,000 to the associated fee.

Then, the suspension upgrades and the required approvals added round €19,000 ($19,929) to this car. There’s one other €20,000 ($20,994) within the numerous extras just like the modified entrance bumper with a brush bar, the roof rack, and the additional set of wheels.

Tallying all of those figures offers this conversion a value of round €139,000 ($145,778). To place this into perspective, a brand new G 500 in Germany at the moment has a beginning worth of €130,203.85, that means the work was greater than the car. 

Delta 4×4 makes a speciality of doing excessive conversions just like the one on this G-Class. For instance, it created a Suzuki Jimny with portal axles for excessive off-roading. The corporate additionally constructed a Rolls-Royce Cullinan overlander with a lifted suspension and rooftop tent.

The way forward for the G-Class is electrical. Motor1.com not too long ago bought the prospect to drive an EQG prototype. Mercedes engineered it to have each little bit of the off-road functionality because the combustion-powered model. The group even made the EV able to tank turns.

Mercedes is not offering full technical particulars in regards to the EQG but. It has 4 electrical motors – one powering every wheel. There’s hypothesis that the battery is likely to be the 108-kilowatt-hour pack from the EQS SUV.