Mercedes has sad news. Production of its maddest current car, the G500 4×4², will only continue until orders made by the end of October 2017 have been catered for. If you absolutely must own a 35-year old army truck fitted with portal axles and giant wheels to deliver 450mm of ground clearance and a one-metre wading depth, hop to it.

Mercedes has been fairly blindsided by the response to the Squared, which was originally intended as a fun concept car for the 2015 Geneva motor show, knocked together with leftover bits from the 100 examples of G63 6x6 that made AMG a few Euros the year earlier.

Such was the volume of ‘hold this briefcase of cash and build me the damn thing now’ feedback, Mercedes made the Squared a Frankenstein-ish halo car, plumbing in a 4.0-litre bi-turbo V8 with 416bhp and 610Nm, the aforementioned crazy axles, and a widebody kit likely stolen from a beach landing craft.

The price? A cool €231,693 (RM1.3 million), before any bespoke options you might like to fit. We presume these are more of the ‘bulletproof glass’ than ‘cupholders’ variety.