swiss G

oh dear. anyone else notice how long it was to get to 80kmh (50mph) as well, bit of a sign that its not made to be driven like that!

Ummm, I think you'll find that is precisely how they were designed to be driven. In those days they used off-the-shelf Mercedes car engines (in terms of tune) in the G's and what power/torque there was tended to peak quite a long way up the rev range. It is only more recently that G's have come with loads of low-down grunt and a nice flat torque curve so you don't have to rev the nuts off them to get any performance.
Bearing in mind that this is a Swiss Army G and soldiers sometimes get shot at, so want to get away out of it fairly quickly, it seems a perfectly reasonable way to drive it. Still, one does wonder when a Swiss soldier was last shot at in anger? :? Do they ever do exercises with the Americans, I wonder? :roll:

that video clip reminded me of being 18,living in n-cyprus and as bob marley said

"no woman,no cry......" easy come,easy go.

my friend bengu was a typical head case and flew his DAD'S G in a similar manner!!

i am still laughing......it brings back memories of the late 80's...................