YouTuber destroys $400,000 Mercedes-Benz G63, but also shows what a tough truck it is

Expensive destruction in the name of video views isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but these clips show an impressive capability behind the brutal Mercedes-Benz G63’s celebrity appeal.

Locally, the 2022 Mercedes-Benz G63 is priced from $365,900 before options and on-road costs – but even then you can't currently order one due to high demand, and the last time you could, the wait list stretched beyond a year.

The four-wheel-drive features a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 petrol engine with a massive 430kW and 850Nm. It seems entirely wasted when you consider the majority of these spend their lives prowling shopping strips and up market locales, never once needing to utilise one, let alone three differential locks.

It is perhaps this ‘caged beast’ mindset that set American YouTuber WhistlinDiesel on the path to ‘test’ a G63 to, and arguably beyond, its limit.

In a series of videos, the presenter cheerily takes his new G63 through some challenging off-road obstacles, setting the tone early on where the Mercedes is backed off a semi-trailer, quickly, without ramps.

The ‘G takes this in its stride, bouncing eagerly to await what comes next.

A standard G63 uses coil springs and twin-tube shock absorbers with adaptive damping, but the Hyacinth Red (alone a $3900 option) G63 in the videos has had a 3-inch suspension lift, some engine work, and features all-terrain tyres.

Racing the car through some sand dunes, with some impressive tracking footage, shows how hard the Mercedes suspension has to work, but also how relentlessly capable the G-Wag is away from the High Street.

The video’s thumbnail image alone, showing the G63 a good two meters in the air, leaping from dune-to-dune, says enough about the rest of the clip.

It’s both brutal and wasteful. The big Mercedes is literally bashed to breaking point in the name of video views.

Follow-up clips take things further, sticking the poor Mercedes into a bog-hole and then finally dropping it from a crane through a house (really), but even then the iconic Mercedes manages to be retired (and repaired) with dignity.