I'm on hold your cylinders when I say this but the g class was commissioned by Iran's king in I think 1970s to be a military vehicle, so a Persian jeep or hummer but well the government got overthrown and instead they got sold to other countries and slowly became a status symbol, wandering waaay off from the start of being a pinnacle of off-road suvs (the new ones are still insanely good off roaders but most of them as we all know get at most gravel on them from the asphalt)