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The troop car at the island base.

This Mercedes-Benz G5 was a military vehicle used by the Nazis under the command of Colonel Dietrich. One fitted with a machine gun and driven by Major Gobler served as an escort vehicle for the convoy carrying the Ark to Cairo. It was destroyed when Indiana Jones forced it over a canyon edge.[1]

Another one was seen later on at the Nazi island base near Crete.[1]

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Troop car model
From Star Wars To Indiana Jones

The Mercedes-Benz G5 vehicle used in Raiders of the Lost Ark was a mockup.[1]

In the Marvel Comics' comic book adaptation, it is replaced with a Mercedes-Benz 320, identical to the one that René Emile Belloq and Herman Dietrich ride in, and doesn't have a mounted gun.[2]

Both it and the cargo truck were reused in Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker's 1984 action-comedy film Top Secret!.[3]

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