Unimog 436

The Unimog 436 is the Turkish-built version of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog. Since 1987 it has been made at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Aksaray, Turkey, at first from complete knocked-down kits of the Unimog 435 series, and later from kits of the 437 series, which became its base once it replaced the 435. The designation 436 was kept through that change and again when the 437.1 gave way to the 437.4. About 7,000 vehicles of the series had been built up to that generational change. The programme was started by the Turkish general importer Mustafa Koluman, who had imported large numbers of the Unimog 404 from 1966 or 1967 and pushed for local production once the Aksaray plant opened. Technically it follows the German base series closely; its one distinctive feature is an optional folding soft top, ordered only in small numbers.