What the...? "TreeHugger" Mercedes Unimog Hägglunds Bandvagn Truck Spotted in the Wild
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 08.25.08
We Did Not Expect That One
After the Treehugger "2REEHGR" Hummer (which we don't have anything to do with) comes the TreeHugger Mercedes Unimog Hägglunds Bandvagn truck (?!?!?), with TH logo and everything. There's even what seems to be a "recyclable" logo on the door. Shows that you never know where you are going to meet TH fans...
Another photo of the post-apocalyptic machine in action can be found below.
More Information
Pics were sent to us by Jacob Warman. He took them at the Northwest Mog Fest, "a gathering of Mercedes Unimog truck enthusiasts." Thanks Jacob!
You can see high-resolution verisons here and here. You can find out more about Unimogs at Wikipedia.
Update: Apprently, this vehicle isn't a Unimog (Mogfest is a big tent), it's a Hägglunds Bandvagn. Thanks to commenter TrollPatrol for the tip.
Are You Reading This?
If the owner of this Unimog Bandvagn is reading this, could you tell us more in the comments. We'd love the backstory on that one. Thanks.
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that's so awesome for some reason. you can carpool a lot of ppl in one of those :)
Very cool. Looks badass, and despite that it's probably not very efficient, it's probably just a hobby for a few days of the year, so probably not that bad.. especially since it looks old.
That's not a Mercedes Unimog
It's a Hägglunds Bandvagn
ps it's amphibious and a better all terrain vehicle than a Uniog if speed is not a factor :D
The Hagglunds BV206 was purchased by a great many militaries, including the US Army (we called them small utility support vehicles, or SUSV.) Some of them are now coming onto the military surplus market. I wouldn't exactly call them "green", but some of them were equipped with Mercedes Benz diesels, which could probably be equipped with SVO kits or operated on biodiesel. In addition, the track and suspension design gives the vehicle an extremely light footprint--these things have less ground pressure than a large man's footprint. For an all-terrain vehicle, you could certainly do much worse.
Here's a little backstory: TREEHUGGER doesn't meant treehugger.com (oh yeah, we aren't the center of the universe...)
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MGR: I would buy that if it didn't also have our little "tree" logo right under the name.
See at the top of our pages on the left of the name.
@Anonymous,
I'm with Mike on this one --- it looks very much like the TreeHugger logo
We had some of these in the army - Yes, You could say they are not the most efficient vehicles out there - they get about 3 MPG :(
Hi Guys,
My company imports and sells unique vehicles, primarily the Mercedes Unimog, and Steyr Pinzgauer. We have been exporting the Hagglunds to Mongolia recently and picked this unit up in Colorado. It had been used in the Blizzards in 2007.
Anyways, as this unit is getting a complete rebuild including paint, a few of our employees asked if they could decorate the Hagglund for the show. It was approved. I sincerely apologize if one of my guys used your logo...it was not intentional as they had been pulling "recycling" logo's off the net and I don't think they realized that this was not public domain.? There was not a surface of the vehicle that did not have some sort of saying on it.....
http://www.expeditionimports.zoovy.com/category/picture_gallery.vunimog.hagglund_taggers/
Please don't take any offense, none was intended.
Cheers,
Scott Ingham
Expedition Imports