BOLD RIDE
When in doubt, add another set of wheels. That was, not long ago, the mantra of the wildly over-the-top Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6—a six-wheel drive off-road behemoth with a twin-turbo V8 and 544 horsepower to spare. It was a legendary truck, and with only 100 or so built, a rare one too.
In a partnership with the United Arab Emirate’s NSV group, the company produced this goliath Toyota Land Cruiser 6×6.
It stands unapologetically tall, boasts a bumper-to-bumper length of over 20 feet, and like most Land Cruisers, it’ll survive practically anything you throw at it. Take a look at its grin-worthy showreel, below.
As you might expect, the big Land Cruiser comes packing quite a bit of power. NSV says the 4.0-liter gasoline V6 has been supercharged and now punches out 398 horsepower and 364 lb.-ft. of torque, put to the ground through a five-speed manual gearbox and all six wheels.
This type of conversion puts these pickups among some of the most capable off-road leisure vehicles in the world, but there’s also a practical angle too—many Land Cruisers are converted to six-wheel drive for military, mining, emergency response, and firefighting duty.
If you fancy one, a 4.5-liter turbodiesel V8 is also available with an automatic transmission. While this one is a double cab variant, you can also spec-up a single cab version with a low-side cargo box in the back. However, in either case you’ll have to keep your big 6×6 abroad. Toyota doesn’t sell this generation—a Toyota Land Cruiser 70 series—on US shores, pity.
Photo Credit: Multidrive Technology, NSV
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