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I am constantly dealing with the size of the Gren cargo area. It’s not necessarily bad, I just seem to struggle with it, especially with a fridge! Part of this is the bulk of the seats, which is a positive for passengers but makes me want the commercial 2-seat version!
That massive angled right side wheel well is less than ideal. It's like building a home onto a hillside. A swing and a miss.
One of the things that's not a fair comparison with a used G-Wagon is the warranty (or lack thereof) v a new IG. Keeping that in mind, I hit the MBUSA site for certified pre-owned GWs and the cheapest there is $115k for a '21 G500 with about 45k miles. The CPO is a one year unlimited mileage MB warranty and you can buy a longer one. So while you can find GWs in the 60-70 thousand dollar range, you're probably on your own in that respect. I'm not saying that's a bad choice, but I imagine it's expensive to fix anything on a MB and that one year of warranty could be worths its weight since you'd have some time to identify any issues. Plus you'll most certainly need to lay out some cash for wheels and tires (that can do more than run over a flower box), bumpers, wiring for winch, lights and accessories, ladder, RAI, etc.
I'm 6'5" and I sleep in mine without issue.
Aftermarket platform, or gear stacking with inflatable pad?
I definitely agree with this point and it’s a solid one. I am just trying to be open minded with the suggestions some of the Grenadier guys have made that are not the most happy with the drive shaft design.
Not certain what you would be looking for, but there are a ton of places offering Gwagon stuff. Jack Wagon Off-road sells a fair bit. In fact many of the same big names making bumpers, rock sliders etc for the Grenadier have been making similar parts for the G for over a decade. Sure, you don't have Owl and Agile and such, but that's kind of a weird phenomenon that just happened with the launch of the Grenadier.
Ok. But this isn't going to put a oil level check dip stick in the b58 petrol .I have to disagree. The primitive hindbrain and midbrain (the lizard parts of our brain) are the parts that reverts to simple categorisation for survival purposes, and the more developed cerebral hemisphere higher functions shut down in that scenario. If we are to behave like civilised humans rather than panicked beasts then it is our more developed higher brain functions that we rely on to do that and they don’t require categorisation as most of humanity is cleverer and more developed than that. The lower primitive functions are for emergency survival autopilot purposes. I would hope that most of us in this forum don’t rely on lizard brain functions for the majority of our living. Hence my opinion that the lack of need to categorise things / people in order to live in a modern civilised world is desirable. Just saying.
See below summary;
The brain categorizes information for survival by rapidly identifying threats to trigger immediate, protective responses like fight, flight, or freeze. This categorization system, rooted in the older, more primitive parts of the brain, allows it to quickly process the overwhelming flow of data by assigning experiences to categories rather than analyzing each one individually. This allows for fast, often unconscious, decisions—such as labeling a speeding car as dangerous—to keep the individual safe.
The survival brain's 3 processes;
1. Threat detection: The brain's older regions, particularly the brainstem and limbic system, are highly attuned to danger.
2. Categorisation: Experiences are categorized as safe or threatening, good or bad, without requiring higher-level reasoning. For example, it quickly labels a speeding car as a threat.
3. Hormonal response: When a threat is perceived, the survival brain floods the body with stress hormones to prepare it for immediate action.
Fight, flight, or freeze: This hormonal response triggers one of three automatic reactions:
Fight: Confront the threat.
Flight: Escape the threat.
Freeze: Become still to avoid detection.
Higher-level functions go offline: During this survival mode, more complex functions like reasoning, problem-solving, and rational decision-making (handled by the frontal lobe) are temporarily shut down to focus exclusively on the immediate threat.
