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hi there hi jonny this is a mercedes amg g 65 andmarks the first time since the nineteen eighties lamborghini alamo 02 that youcan get a v12 in an suv you call that in suv this is the icon fj44 and it isan suv yes but does it cost two hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars yes ohwell it looks like we have a head-to-head there's only one way tofind out what i can think of many ways to find out what is wrong with you i am not taking my clothes off jason and i are standing here with two of the most capable production suvs onplanet earth but before we take them anywhere else we're gonna take them totheir unfortunate natural habitat the mean streets of beverly hills aston martin ferrari we are in beverly hills we're just coming off rodeo drive for everydriving offered a drive for every ferrari we see we see 52 g wagons nah i would say 25 g wagons but 100 range rover products i mean range rover range rover sport evoque its if
it's the official car of beverly hills covering defenders crazy i love g wagons this is my favorite mercedes yeah which is ok i'm ok with that sure they're incredible whenyou have a really good design i like the way it looks a little bit but industrialdesign you have a great product keep it that you don't need to reinventthe wheel every time this is like mercedes in house they've upgraded all the electronics they've upgraded everything is modernexcept for the body seven-speed transmission airbags apparently passes crash not emissions i think it drives through the through the wall on the crash test i mean this is one of those cars if somebody hit you it'skind of their problem but now i mean
this is this is a real modern car butyou know they didn't get rid of the recirculating ball with 85 turnslock to lock they didn't get rid of that horrendous driving was gonna say the extra weight of his engineexacerbates well i think it's going to have an extra300 pound it might be an extra thousand all heavy 12 738 pound-feet of torque isseven hundred and thirty pounds you know what i mean like yes backs are one thing 738 foot-pounds of torque is a lot oftorque however these engines power band is very small and very narrow per minthey've done everything they can to do you make this engine responded it's gotlike four to 1 compression and 120
pounds of boost it is nothing often it'sjust a 20 year old but let me ask you this year couple hundred people here that by thisthing they said in traffic well do you think if you watch that youthink they would listen or they would be like you freak with their g wagon their$220,000 you know that the problem is people are buying this may be buying itjust because the number is higher than by number i mean displacement horsepowerand price is higher than the rest at the end of the day you still mercedes-benzneeds to have consistency in our product to conceive message don't wanna salesmenwho never existed but could says
technology don't buy the g six boatsalso a lot of those customers come back and say it is a va twice only drive v12i'm not tell a kroger i'm not telling those people to buy v12 i'm tellingmercedes to make a modern b12 and they re yeah i didn't even look at the rover and idon't see one yes this is a whole big huge slice of fabulous that's honestlyworth 222 graham i can't believe i'm saying i know butyou know i don't like the lightness access and yet i'm fine with a $222,000 no yes i mean baby ok i would never havea ladies room with the the contrasts
with a garbage bag full of cocaine andgarden fine with it so this one we're driving is a thepeterson special right to prototypes 042 continued into the brand new petersenmuseum as soon it's going to peterson for six months if you want to see itthat's a lot of new stuff on this one and again is sort of a prototype of thethird generation after a $20,000 $20,000 in but it's like a snap on canvas top mylist is gonna be called la for the first time ever a bother with top it does haveheated seats does three positions memories when they're still on when youleft but the g class has heated steering wheel so i have to work very cool i liketo close if it were summer does have
acct with no window well we're gonna find outand i will say one of this is completely and totally not my kind of truck wrap i gotta say how to put more power 90yards log at the moment just over steer the burned-out going eighty miles are onthe freeway i just goes invading valley it's it's such a great car andlook at the pride of ownership here like to show you are well as by the way arewell in all of your mercedes arose in fortunes and bmw's everything on thispart of the key ok but you could have a different key i mean everything thiscenter console something that would
would could only happen here i bouncedoff only forty four you know it never actually made an fda 4445 james 43 @10:45 the troop transport he won so john ward guy behind icon today we'll takethe fda 45 ads and doors make it a conventional six either boom fj40 for iwould never use the word conventional and well yeah here's here's the onething that drives like a dump truck drives like a tour bus so you're sayingyou don't drug to a tour bus i can i get i never knew that before it is true butit does feel like driving tour bus just like you could take sixpeople in go you know hunting in africa similar or there's everything
and just to prove that there is in factsomething wrong with johnny he asked our testing team to run the normal batteryof tests on these two trucks here's what you need to know the fda's rev limiterand transmission like to fight each other during acceleration indebted stillmanaged to hit sixty miles an hour 5.7 seconds the g was even faster 5.2 butrather alarmingly cocktail couple degrees to the right as b12 tried totwist its framingham nothing however was more horrifying and their him to g 65posted the worst skid pad number we've seen since possibly ever and then usedall of its six hundred and twenty-one horsepower to basically time a hundredand eighty eight horsepower diesel
sprinter van in figuring that comesthanks to an overly aggressive stability control system that the nerve seemedmore concerned with preventing the truck from rolling over then giving us awesomefootage of a spectacular crash the fda doesn't have stability control so it hadno such trouble it promptly lifted itself onto three wheels at the merestsuggestion of a corner which might look scary but was nothing compared to whathappened under braking whatever pieces of chewing gum were used to locate thefda's front axle clearly met their newtonian match allowing the frontwheels to oscillate wildly we're still not sure whether it was more horrifyingto watch from the outside or inside but
suffice it to say that everyone washappy when it was over even johnnie so excited we finally got these twotogether i can't wait hey you know i mean the german rightdirty and sexy no doubt yeah i just want to crawl into what happened was johnnieinto the water to a dr got its not gonna pull them out in the g in iraq totallymangled front bumper i feel like you had a boulder i hit a boulder because you got it stuckbecause i forgot to lock the hubs you're going to die see the rock obviously andinstead they don't show this is embarrassing i forgot to lock up kidswere never again allowed north of
wilshire drain dude in a parking lot they've paid$22,000 this he'd say wow cool truck when you don't actually cost $225,000you'd say what toyota and thats reaction most people have when they first meetthe icon fda they don't get it once you do get it makes sense for the quick anddirty self it this is the prototype for the gen 3 icon fda everybody panel sayfor the hood which is still steel is high strength aluminum that's beenpowder-coated instead of painted underneath his body is a custom artmorris and chassis with the status off roading stuff you can get from the sinustract dana 44 front axle to the data 460
l back to the nitrogen still gas bypassfox racing shox to the brembo brake again no expense was spared the backingup into the inside you see some of the kind of almost new cd attention todetail the sun visors literally off of a learjet the samepiece the hinges of flip down the windshield there from a 1906 sub-zerorefrigerator the seat material from fancy hotel somewhere sitting on anoutdoor furniture that i like this it's waterproof as we found out my proof i'mgonna put this on my truck is at everything he can to get as much plasticinto the interior is possible even the handbrake lever is now mill for aluminumthe thing about these icons is the more
you look at him the more you realizethat none of the war has left no stone unturned almost every single piece ofthe vehicle has been rethought re-engineered and made better just likemercedes is done with the g class d stands for glenda bargain which ingerman means off-road vehicle this thing has been in production since 1979mercedes is made continual improvements not counting the one that i did to thebumper done here this is still the same hand-built austrian off-road vehiclewith three locking diffs gonna suspension travel huge mechanical gripthe difference with this one is it the first time you can get a v12 engine
book i give me twelve engine a reallyhard time because mercedes-benz is an engineering company and you have to workto find a four-cylinder economy car engine that's lower tech mercedes had areally high tech v12 in the early nineties and then merged to becomedaimlerchrysler and all the money out of this what's left is a very simple threevalves per cylinder single overhead cam no variable valve timing v12 thatrequires 24 spark plugs just to get it through emissions testing it makes sixhundred and twenty-one horsepower and seven hundred and thirty-eightpound-feet of torque but it does it for a split second in one small area of thereverend after a huge i'm not too
terrible act as a result it's two tenthsof a second slower to 16 nov 8 which makes it far less horsepower and farless torque yeah ok so the engines twenty years old and not all that greatbut the car is 40 years old so i guess that's a win for the engine anyway i gclass still has three locking diffs ton of suspension travel and they've madetremendous improvements to the interior is an awesome car also the coolestlooking car mercedes makes so long as i don't move in show you all the damageinflicted on it locked and no problem whatsoever bring a barbie jeep to the mud nice jeepas we do ya thing could have a top it
just doesn't are you going for the girlyman thanks go to the beach section of you preview that yet review here rightnow all right let's try this one funny angle not that they're girly now is it we knowthat you think about this head-to-head is they're both incredible suvs the onlyreal big demerits instruct get this that it's just not as good as the g63 but youknow that's not relevant here actually i will say i think it's relevant in somuch that the 65 is actually lower than 350 that i but i will say i thoughtoffering something with a v12 would be like some crazy orchestral experience inthis engine makes noise yeah i mean just
inherently extremely capable themechanical grip you get on those is to remember you know what i would do thoseup to the artic circle in smeaton we just felt pretty severe off-roading i mean they're just their mountain goatbut then again so is this things my god it's funny watching that actually soundsaround they gave the check purposely trying to stop thinking aboutit man i mean honestly this know when you're driving this day it just anythingyou just don't even think about it this is a really steep living in the real suvand then he told me
yeah i'm only worried about the busnumber that we've heard he screwed up i guess that's right through a goodnothing actually have paid this is a powder coated aluminum ya just gotta 738 twice i think i probably used a teamof the seven hundred and thirty eight foot pounds of torque but how is yourunknown amount of targets doing wrong jonathan from icon he was guessing 540horsepower really know which gives me an idea time to go to the diner who nothing's more awesomely ridiculous andi'm going to off-road vehicles and so
you're welcome first up the mercedesthanks to all that lag we don't see folks work would be sweet or rather high2800 rpm after that is a plant owned or chrome at 550 pounds per horsepower hecomes in at just 4,900 rpm but 485 to the wheels is about what you'd expectfrom the 621 historic engine connected to a big heavy inefficientfour-wheel-drive system the icons of the aid is just one big huge superchargedwave of torque from just under 2,500 rpm all the way past five grand power billto all the way to the limiter at 6250 and peaked at just three hundred andsixty-four applying the same drivetrain losses mercedes that translates to 465work hour at the engine about 75 less
than icon guest aside from the fact thatthis is a prototype let us just say that's more than enough power to makethe fda unstoppable thing can be said about this g hardingahead i loveable yeah this one is gonna be tough i mean the only real demerithere is tons of turbo lag which isn't really helpful when you're trying toclimb basically a wall and i guess here is that they forgot to build a roofflorida's museum without a roof but i mean just to create suv you know forsure is that thing looks on the road looking like a tour bus it looks so goodout here covering it helps a lot of power cord is made to be covered in mudand you think it's pretty amazing luxury
car like this do this offer although itdoes sound like a dump truck on the road but then you get it doesn't actually doit was designed to do from day one writer was a military vehicle one itwould take the full might of mercedes-benz engineering to be able tomake an offer vehicle they can do this then drive so well on the street and itsgonna go ahead and say this thing to separate its icon this thing is ridiculously awesome i'lldefinitely give it that it is a ridiculous and it's pretty funny thingto me though is that await so this guy is 4,700 pounds give or take that guy's5900 and the way it doesn't really seem
to be an issue for the g yes just 1,200 pounds or leather as thecase may be glass we did it and didn't damage anythingelse i mean what gets me is you know you're always the best ways well what we're doing that's reallymaking 55 for the late nineteen seventies i drew a lot of suvs they havenot offer may be on road on that stuff like that but you know gonna get bettertrucks on but the hard part now is they have to come to a conclusion we have tomake a decision and pick a winner so
here's on this the g 65 great truck hadalot of fun did i had a lot of fun however ran the numbers and we know thatfor $90,000 and all that extra power and torque if so then the g60 the only thingit does better than the g8 is used more fuel and that's that's a pretty bigdemerit for $90,000 price for you as far as the f king goes on to cluster thattruck i'm very good presence of the lord the man behind my car so you dosomething very uncharacteristic and that isn't gonna recuse herself entirely fromthis decision the winner of the head to head rests entirely on the shoulders ofthis man mr chamisa thank you i think that the reason it's so difficult is allof our criticism of the g 65 is that
it's not a g 63 we have nothing else tosay there's also no criticism of the fda because it is the perfect after is aperfectly executed fda then again for $222,000 cars that people buy becausethey like the way they look right now and we both wanted you absolutely youdefinitely want a nikon one day i like it a lot but i think it's clear thewinner of this head-to-head is the mercedes amg g63 the same one that wonthe last head-to-head between i've no problem i was looking at the next sevenhead-to-head we have planned the g63 could actually win all of those yeah noproblem ok cool let's get a gluten-freealcohol-free flower free beer but why
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