Five new models are now available from the Minichamps brand.  The feature is the cool 1:43  Mercedes-Benz Unimog 1300 L – Schneepflug – Orange.  The detail is quite surprising and very impressive for a 1:43 scale piece, a total of  197 parts are utilized to create the truck.  More details on the Unimog can be found below.  Other new releases by scale include:

1:18 – BMW Z4 GT3 (E89) – ECURIE ECOSSE – SMITH/MCCAIG/BRYANT/SIMS – 24H SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS 2014
1:18 – BMW Z4 GT3 – MARC VDS RACING TEAM – LEINDERS/PALTTALA/MARTIN – ADAC 24H NÜRBURGRING 2012
1:18 – FORD ESCORT II (LHD) – 1975 – ORANGE
1:18 – MASERATI BORA – 1970 – RED

About the Unomog…  “Unimog is an acronym for the German “UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät”. Universal four-wheel drive light truck amd equipment carrier mainly for agriculture and forestry, military and community operations, also for tasks in inaccessible areas (e.g. drilling|bore vehicle or disaster assistance.) It is categorized under front-seat tractor with four-wheel drive. Some Unimog models are classical Dual-Use-Goods.  Since 1945 the developed vehicle has been manufactured in series, at first at Boehringer Werkzeugmaschinen as from 1949. Since the takeover by Daimler-Benz in 1951, the Unimog is a brand model of Mercedes-Benz. Unimog was manufactured for more than fifty years in Gaggenau before production was changed to the Mercedes-Benz plant in Worth am Rhein. The Unimog trademark is protected.”