It has been finished with an ordinary-looking aluminum box into which is stashed an opulent adventure base. This particular Zetros supercruiser was built for a pair of businessmen in Mongolia. It can also become a fantastic mobile hunting lodge.
But the Zetros doesn’t have to be a dump truck or mobile crane. It’s the sort of truck you just don’t see often unless you happen to work in a copper mine or laying pipeline over the Urals, places where the huge ability of the Zetros chassis and drive system pays off in completed tasks and profits. Mercedes builds the Zetros 6圆 as a commercial vehicle that can do any job despite insane conditions. Whether powered by Ram’s 410-horsepower, 6.4-liter Hemi or the torque-rich 325-horsepower, 6.7-liter Cummins turbo-diesel inline-six, the Prospector feels ready to lug a house down to Chile, even if the truck is just cruising I-40 in Kansas City.Īnd, yes, they sell that drop-side aluminum bed, too. Those drop brackets maintain the stock steering angles despite the suspension lift, so driving the Prospector is still a civilized and comfortable experience. The example seen here is up 4.0 inches and wears 40-inch-tall Goodyear Wrangler MT/Rs on AEV’s own 17-inch Katla wheels.
New shocks and springs work with control-arm drop brackets to raise the truck three or four inches, depending on the customer’s needs. That starts at the nose, where AEV fits a monstrous die-stamped steel bumper with cast iron tow loops extending down that also act as front skid bars. The Prospector line is AEV’s push to fortify the heavy-duty Ram 25 trucks so they can thrive under the most extreme conditions while looking, well, awesome even when they’re just fetching giant bags of dog food from Costco. But there are some things a Wrangler can’t do that a full-size Ram truck can. View Gallery 16 PhotosĪmerican Expedition Vehicles (AEV) earned its bones modifying Jeep Wranglers into even more capable rock crawlers or forest explorers. Whether that’s across a glacier or through a mud bog, along a tight trail, or over several continents, the right tool should suit the job. So here are 15 of the best vehicles for going places where only the few would dare. It’s for the daring, the prepared, and, to our point, the well equipped. If adventure were easy, everyone would do it. Adventure takes effort, skill, risk, and tools. Maybe it’s impossible to go where no one has gone before on Earth, but to get to places where only a few have been means crossing rugged terrain, surviving brutal elements, and beating a few new paths. As common as complaints about arduous travel experiences have become (“We had to wait 20 minutes for a gate to open, the idiots lost my bag, and a sandwich was $9.75!”), it’s really just travel.Īdventure is the leap beyond mere travel. To get from Toledo, Ohio, to Syracuse, New York, takes about 13 hours and costs less than $100 by Greyhound bus. Today, that’s a 4.5-hour plane trip that costs about $200. Walking speed is about 3 mph, so, for most of history, getting from, say, Toledo in Spain to Syracuse in Italy was a virtually impossible, treacherous 1800-mile journey that would take months with no certainty of survival. Humanity loves to roam, but only recently has it become easy to do so over long distances.
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