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Any great connoisseur of the G Wagen and the Mercedes-Benz brand must be frustrated with the path the german auto maker took already a long time ago. More interested in the status symbol of their cars, than what they should be designed for, their north star has long been gone and they seem lost in an uncertain future for privately owned mobility. For someone like us, who used our cars to explore the unexplored, it’s more than just a pose. It’s all about capability, freedom, and pushing boundaries. When brands focus on nouveau riche customers, they diminish the essence of what makes vehicles like the G-Class special to those who revered them for genuine purpose, not just as ostentatious luxury fashion statements. Since the begining of the end.

My name is Nicholas Coleman, I’m from what used to be the small town of Provo, Utah. Named for the French-Canadian fur trapper Etienne Provost, who wandered into what has become Utah Valley. My father Michael Coleman is an artist as well as myself. I was his little shadow wherever he went. Fishing, hunting, trapping and to a dozen or more of the world's best art museums.

Takashi URASHIMA, aka @ein883, is a fire truck driver who draws illustrations in his spare time. He started making illustrations from photos he took at motorcycle events thinking that illustrations could easily overcome language barriers and share the fun. He was not wrong. This Japanese artist has been drawing El Solitario for years through his original vision, so we decided to ask him a few questions for this article.

"There's one date of the year that I can't afford to miss, and that's in June, around the Summer Solstice, a symbol that's very dear to me, because it represents renewal, my renewal.Our Spanish friends have understood this, and without really organizing things, they know perfectly well how to unite us around San Juan. One message is all it takes, and we all arrive from the four corners of the globe, ready for a new adventure. As one of us said, the road is OK, but the track is much more exciting, and I finally understood this on our last crossing of the Iberian Peninsula. Having spent forty years exclusively on the road, I discovered the immense pleasure of enduro riding. Being inside the landscape is very different from watching it go by behind the visor, whatever the bike.

The last El Solitario OUTLAWS was a story about long lasting friendships. Paying tribute to the freedom of each individual who took part in this, we decided to give a disposable camera to each of them. The result? A scrapbook more authentic than ever. The beauty of a photograph is the personification of the eye that was looking at the precise instant of the shot.