Mercedes-Benz L3000

The Mercedes-Benz L3000 was a 4x2 3-tonne rear axle drive truck used by Nazi Germany in World War II, powered by a Daimler-Benz OM 65/4 74 hp 4-cylinder diesel engine.

It was used alongside the Opel Blitz, and proved even more reliable in rough terrain; and was used in all fronts and extensively by the Afrika Korps.

From 1896, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft built not only passenger cars, but also light and heavy trucks with a payload of up to 10 tonnes (22,000 lb) for the civilian and military sectors.

() Figures in brackets: For driving offroad A replica of an L3000 based on the chassis of a GMC CCKW appears in the 1981 film Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

[1] A modified Lo 2000 or L3000 truck carrying a detachment of SS Einsatzkommandos appears on the village arrival scene of the 1983 British Horror film The Keep, set in Romania in 1941.

Mercedes-Benz L 3000S truck in a museum in Noginsk , Russia
Mercedes-Benz L 3000 S in Italy with Fallschirmjäger , 1944
Romanian soldiers riding a Mercedes-Benz L 3000, Hungary, 1944
A vintage L3000 bearing markings of the Dossenheim Fire Police in 2016