Yahoo Autos This 21-foot-tall Willys replica is the world's largest running Jeep
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Jeep's long-awaited Ram 1500-based Grand Wagoneer will likely become its biggest model to date when it goes on sale in 2021. It won't be the world's largest Jeep, though, far from it. That honor goes to a fully-functional, 21-foot-tall replica of a World War II-era Willys built and displayed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
This colossal off-roader wasn't created to star in a multi-million dollar marketing campaign, and it's not the product of a major misunderstanding in the company's research and development department. It was commissioned by Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan, a member of the UAE's royal family sometimes known as the Rainbow Sheikh and famous globally for his eclectic collection of over 200 cars. It's too big to fit inside the pyramid-shaped museum he opened on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, so it's propped up on four pieces of wood right outside of it, next to a nine-bedroom globe-shaped trailer that's exactly one million times smaller than the Earth.
It's hard to get a sense of scale of the thing, but check out the third photo in the gallery, which shows it alongside normal-sized vehicles.
