RHD any time soon?

I don't think so....

A total of 42 and 52 GWagens were registered in Spain in 2005 and 2004 respectively. But this includes trucks imported used from other EU countries (mainly Germany), which used to be the majority of registrations. So let's assume that just half of them were sold new by Mercedes Spain. The G is a very expensive truck as we all know and this is what deters buyers. Disposable income is admitedly greater in the UK than it is in Spain, though not that much if we were to believe per capita GDP figures. But let's be mightly optimistic and assume that MBUK would be able to sell 150 new GWagens a year if they were produced in RHD. For this volume, they would not do it. They have all of its production sold in the USA and continental Europe and for those sale figures they would not increase output.

Just before the 463 was launched in the UK in 1991, the peak of GWagen sales had been 400 Gs/year and expectations with the launch of the new model were to sell 1,000/year. Naturally, this was never achieved, among other things due to MBUK being a bunch of arrogant snobs. It was considered a failure and that's why, when in 1994 they had to release the new models (G320 and G350 Turbodiesel), they opted not to offer RHD versions. Again, when in 1999 they agree to produce RHD G500s, they regarded the sale volumes achieved as negligible and decided with the MY 2000 that that was it: the GWagen was never to be produced in RHD at least as a production vehicle.

I can see it in some of the forums that I look at in Spain. Many ignorant folks say that they would never buy such an ugly vehicle for such an amount of money, preferring any of the soccer mom oil tankers that you can see in any public school in the UK. It is worthless even to try to convince them that in the case of the G, form follows function and that is the beauty of the G. It is their loss and our gain: if the G became yet more popular, we would have to pay even more for the second hand units that most of us can affors to buy.