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Mercedes G63 AMG 6x6 Review | Top Gear | Series 21 - YouTube
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let me give you an example a land rover
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defender can wade through half a meter
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of water and that's very good
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this
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can wade through twice though
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however
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this being the desert water is quite
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hard to find so if you want to test it
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you do have to improvise
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following sorry
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sorry
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this is unless i'm very much mistaken a
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meter of water
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and the 6 is
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wading through it
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even dealing with the rubber rings
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yeah not having any difficulty with this
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at all but how does it cook with sand
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well the good news is
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sand is one thing we're really not short
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of
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welcome to the empty quarter
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the largest sand desert in the world
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covering some 250 000 square miles
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out here temperatures hit 50 degrees
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centigrade
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and there are dunes more than 800 feet
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high
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okay we have six wheel drive with a
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power split 30 40 30 across the axles
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check stronger front springs from the
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armored version of the g-class check
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locking diffs oh we've got those the
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most you'd expect normally would be
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three on here five and you lock them
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using these buttons in different ways
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right let's go
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these are big big dudes this is more of
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a sand mountain i'm on right now
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three and three quarter tons of mercedes
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is doing this it just doesn't feel right
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this extra axle these two extra wheels
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it changes the way the 6x6 travels over
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the ground it undulates it feels subtle
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it's like blasting through the desert
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dude
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riding a cindy
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intoxicated by what the merc could do i
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drove deeper and deeper into the empty
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quarter all right where does it go now
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oh my god
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oh
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oh for crying out loud
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i wouldn't ski down that
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not nice
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it's vertical
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i'm in the car i'm having a pain crash
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i'm still going down
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oh what a stupid place i hate it
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ahead i saw a nice flat desert floor and
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decided that was a much safer place to
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be
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it's drifting now it's a rally car a
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gigantic rally car
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and let's not forget i'm not having to
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shout over this it's not right in here
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i'm still cocooned in luxury
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it's an amazing device
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now when you take an off-roader across
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sand
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the standard practice as i've done is to
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let some air out of the tires to give
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them a bigger footprint
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now i'm going back on tarmac so i need
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to reinflate them all i've got to do is
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operate these overhead switches
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i feel like a jet pilot
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compressor on
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going up
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and they can reinflate all of these
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tyres in under a minute
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oh i love this
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if i did this in ludwig i'd be mobbed by
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now
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leaving the empty quarter behind i
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headed back towards civilization
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i'm not going to pretend this is
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anything less than a preposterous
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machine
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it's a six meter three and three quarter
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ton three hundred and seventy thousand
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pound six-wheel dinosaur
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but as dinosaurs go
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it is a magnificent
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magnificent to behold magnificently made
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it's one of the car world's mad moments
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a day off from prices and leaps
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even in a country as chock full of
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showy-off cars as this one it's still
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really rather special
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you can forget your chrome wraps and
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whatever i don't think you can beat just
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having more wheels than anything else
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and i can say with absolute confidence
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that i have more wheels than any of
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her
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no matter
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one thing i can say for sure is that
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this is the most extreme mercedes out
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here i doubt there's anything with the
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mercedes badge in these parts that can
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draw as much attention
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as that
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all right so i don't have the most
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wheels
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it's not the most extreme mercedes out
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here but the 6x6 does have size on its
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side
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bigger than any range rover bigger than
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any land cruiser bigger than that old
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jeep up there that's the thing
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a car can be beautiful but when it's big
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it's got presents and they don't come
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much bigger than
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oh my
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god
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i want this one
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you
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