mercedes

It's called the Iron Schoeckl, and it's the 30-foot high steel rack Mercedes-Benz uses to showcase some of the capabilities of the Mercedes military-esque G-Wagon – that boxy SUV that people either love or hate. (Really, calling it military-esque is unfair, as many armies around the world buy the G-Wagon in one form or another.) Last week, I got a chance to visit Gratz, Austria, home of the G Wagon factory that pumps out 54 all-new G's every day. (Overall, it takes 10 days to hand build these powerful machines that have mind-stretching capabilities.) And after touring the factory, it seemed somehow fitting, in that German sort of way, that all of the journalists were collected in a ...