A one-of-one, twin-turbocharged V-12 Mercedes-AMG G65 6×6 — a truck that shouldn’t exist — is sitting on Bring a Trailer right now with a backstory no auction house copywriter could dream up. It was half-built in Ukraine when Russian troops rolled in. Its creators hid it in a shipping container to keep it from being seized or destroyed.
The truck is a custom creation from Jeep Monsters, a specialist shop headquartered in Zhytomyr Oblast, northwest of Kyiv. The region saw heavy fighting in the early weeks of the 2022 invasion. Somehow, amid that chaos, the builders managed to stuff this massive, partially completed six-wheeled monument to excess into a container, reportedly wrecking a trailer in the process.
When Ukrainian forces liberated the area, work resumed. Now it’s finished, it’s stateside, and it’s painted Solarbeam Yellow.
Let’s be clear about what this thing is. Mercedes-AMG built its own G63 6×6 from 2013 to 2015, a portal-axled, military-derived beast that became an instant icon of peak-oil decadence. But even AMG drew a line. The factory 6×6 got the twin-turbo 5.5-liter V-8, not the hand-built 6.0-liter V-12 from the G65.
Jeep Monsters had no such reservations. They started with a U.S.-spec 2017 G65, already a $220,000-plus vehicle when new, and grafted on a third axle, portal gear sets, locking differentials, underbody armor, and a central tire inflation system — though that last feature is currently non-functional. The 6.0-liter V-12 makes 621 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque, fed through a seven-speed automatic and dual-range transfer case.
Then they piled on Brabus parts: a carbon-fiber widebody kit, a snorkel, and enough interior carbon fiber to make a Pagani blush. Harman Kardon audio, rear-seat entertainment, acres of leather. It’s a vehicle designed for maximum visual impact at all times, in all directions, from every angle.
The irony is inescapable. This is a truck built to be seen — chrome-drenched, Solarbeam Yellow, wider than a shipping lane — and it spent part of its life hidden in the dark, crammed into a metal box while artillery shook the ground outside. Its survival is improbable. Its existence is absurd.
The original Mercedes 6×6 was a rich person’s toy that cosplayed as military hardware. This one actually has a war story. Whether that provenance adds to the value or just the mythology depends on the buyer.
At auction, this truck occupies strange territory. It’s not a factory vehicle, so the collector-car purity crowd may shrug. It’s not a serious off-roader despite the hardware underneath — nobody’s rock-crawling in a $500,000-plus chrome-laden land yacht.
It’s a rolling spectacle, and its appeal lives or dies on whether someone wants to own the loudest, most conspicuous G-Wagen ever assembled, one that also happens to have dodged an invading army. The auction closes June 12. No reserve price has been mentioned.
The bidding will tell us exactly how much a war-surviving, V-12-powered, six-wheeled yellow monument to automotive excess is worth to someone with the garage space and the nerve. Given the current market appetite for anything with a story, don’t expect it to go quietly. This truck has never done anything quietly.
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