The door handle button, the headlight washer nozzles, the sun visors and the spare wheel cover. That’s a comprehensive list of the parts that have been carried over from the old G-Class. Apparently there’a bracket underneath that also has the same part number as before, but even the engineers can’t remember quite where it is. Everything else – everything – is new.
About time, really. The old G had been around since the dawn of the motor carriage (well, #1979), an old soldier still refusing to desert its post.

That post is off-roadability. Surely Mercedes must have been tempted to take the new one in a more urban direction, since that’s the landscape the G seems most able to conquer? “Not at all”, says Gunnar Guthenke, the #GClass’s boss, “above all it had to be authentic, so there were three elements we absolutely had to keep: the super-tough ladder chassis, the three locking #differentials and the low range gearbox”.