Author Archives: Iep van der Meer

New Toyota vans are PSA vehicles!

PSA (Peugeot-Citroen) and Toyota Motor have made an agreement for the French manufactorer to build vans for Toyota for the European market. The Exper and Jumpy models will come with a Toyota badge in the seccond half of next year. It looks like badge engineering is very hip these days. We already saw the Opel…Continue Reading

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Old Volvo proto's

At this moment we are all waiting for the next Volvo generation but the programms of developing new trucks never stop. This is an old prototype of what later became the F series. Watch the headlights, later someone decidede to place them horizontal!  Continue Reading

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The end of the MAN V8

The introduction of the new MAN trucks for Euro6 means the end of the V8 engine. This big banger was developed together with Liebherr for big yellow iron machines and if you ask me, that is where it belongs. At the presentation of the Euro6 models MAN anounched the end of the V8 in about…Continue Reading

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Comming soon, the new DAF

DAF presented the Euro6 engines on the BedrijfsautoRAI in Amsterdam but nobody knows what that means for the design of the cab. This is an old photo of the new DAF truck. And no, it is not going to look like an old Scania Streamline with the horizontal bars, that is just camouflage. Reading between…Continue Reading

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MAN Euro6 range complete

And now i found even more photo’s of the next MAN generation. Not only the big TGX, but also the smaller TGM and TGL trucks. The Bussing lion has a new place in the chrome ornament on the upper grille. Personal i think the chrome ‘moustage’ is a bit overdone for the small TGL and…Continue Reading

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New Sprinter caught!

On www.autoevolution.com I just found these photo’s of the next Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. According to this great website the new Sprinter is comming in 2013. It looks like the new Sprinter has a new higher front end with Citan styling details. There could be a chance that the Sprinter is reveiled at the IAA in September…Continue Reading

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Mercedes-Benz pickup?

Most brands have a pickup truck in the programm but worlds biggest producer of vans and trucks, Mercedes-Benz doesn’t! The only pickup trucks that MB has are based on the G- or the Sprinter vans. On the internet i found an artist-impression of what could have been a pickup but it is an old drawing.…Continue Reading

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MAN shows new design

MAN shows a glimps of the new design on their own website. They invite people to send in photo’s of the fieldtest trucks to MAN Truckersworld, and that is new! They seem to understand the www.iepieleaks.nl format at MAN, nice action! But please, don’t forget to also send me the photo’s!Continue Reading

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And another Renault!

And here we have even more Renault prototypes! Iepieleaks spie Jonas A. send me these photo’s that he found on Facebook. Jonas was so clever to check the British licence plates and we know for shure now, this is a Renault truck! Thanks for investigating Jonas, and keep up the good work! When we look…Continue Reading

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