Author Archives: Iep van der Meer

USA: Manipulating emissions is expensive!

In the USA a company that sold software to manipulate boardcomputers got a very high penalty. The software was mainly built in to diesel powered pick-up trucks were the partikel filter was removed. The software mislead the computers that monitor the emissions so the readings were normal. The system was sold for Ford, GM and…Continue Reading

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More Renault details

We have seen a lot of scoop photo’s of the new Renault trucks and here are som more from the Norwegian website Tungt. The photo’s show details of the back of the cab and the front and the Norwegian colleges speculate about the amount of Volvo parts and panels in the cab. For as far as I…Continue Reading

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Official: Ram Promaster

On the Chicago Motorshow the Ram Promaster is presented. It is a rebranded Fiat Ducato and it comes with a 3,6 liter V6 petrol engine or with Fiat’s 3.0 diesel.     For much more details and a video about this Ram Promaster van, click on the ‘Read more’ button!  Continue Reading

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New DAF XF in the UK

One of my Iepieleaks spies just sent me this photo of a new DAF XF. The truck was spotted in the UK. Though it has the orange colour it doesn’t have the stiping of the demo’s. It is a 6×2 tractor unit with the steering wheel on the right. Probably it is a fieldtest truck.Continue Reading

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Arocs Grounder

The new Mercedes-Benz Arocs also has a special heavy duty version named Grounder. This truck is optimalised for heavy offroad jobs. Here’s the introduction movie of the Arocs Grounder:  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R652F2yufE&w=560&h=315]  Continue Reading

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Scania V8 Euro 6 on Bauma?

On www.eurotransport.de i found an item that suggests that Scania will show the new V8 engines for Euro 6. On the IAA Scania announched the new 16 liter V8 engines with 520, 580 and 730 Hp to arrive ‘in 2013’ and that is the year we live in now. A telephone call to Scania did’nt…Continue Reading

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MAN Euro 6 construction

On the Bauma exhibition in Munich MAN will launch their Euro 6 construction vehicles. Here is the first photo of the new MAN truck. The trucks come with outputs from 320 to 480 Hp and with a torque of 1600 until 2300 Nm. The Euro 6 versions will be 200 kilo heavier than the Euro…Continue Reading

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A better photo of Rafn's Volvo

Now here is a much better picture of the new FH16 heavy transport tractor of Torben Rafn. It is remarkable what colours can do on a truck. On the introduction vehicles the grille looks a bit odd but this is a great truck! The only thing I don’t like are the blue lights on the…Continue Reading

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New Atego in may

Mercedes-Benz is going to launch the new Atego series on the CV Show in Birmingham in April, and on the Bauma exhibition in Munich. Today we got the first ‘artist impressions’ of the new Atego and they look prommising. The Euro 6 atego comes with seven different enging outputs and it has several novilties on…Continue Reading

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Plug in hybrid systems

Now here is a question for the car- and truck industrie. What makes a vacuum cleaner of about 100 Euro’s more clever than a ‘plug in hybrid’ car, van or truck? It is in the cable! Imagine that you are a night out with your plugin hybrid car, let’s say to a theatre. When you…Continue Reading

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