The new Bharat Benz heavy-duty is a big succes in India. In three months there were 1000 units sold! From the start of sales on September 26, 2012 until the year-end, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) sold 1,098 heavy-duty trucks between 25 and 31 tons. Furthermore, the heavy-duty truck with a vehicle weight of 31…… Continue Reading
Ginaf is a Dutch manufactor of special trucks for construction and mining. They work mainly with DAF components, but add different axles, gearboxes and transfer cases. The latest developement is the HydroAxle+. an hydraulic driven front axle. The system was developped together with Bosch Rexroth. Here is a nice animation of how it works. [youtube…… Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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