Volkswagen will present the new generation of the Multivan to the press on April 16 in Amsterdam. Now that is the day before the AutoRAI 2015 will start in that city. Now there is no official statement of Volkswagen that the new Multivan will be shown at the AutoRAI 2015 but it would suprise us…… Continue Reading
The Volkswagen Group now seems to shift up. First former Scania CEO Leif Östling was sent home, and now Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn pointed the direction in Svenska Dagbladet. He says that for different juristic reasons the whole deal had to be worked out before he could explain more. Now, with ex Dailmer CEO Andreas Renschler…… Continue Reading
Today the one-millionth DAF truck was produced at DAF’s home factory in Eindhoven. The Dutch prime-minister Mark Rutte came to Eindhoven to celebrate this rather unique event together with DAF Trucks CEO Harrie Schippers. I wonder if they have to blow out all one-milion candles on the cake together!… Continue Reading
The French national mailservice ‘La Poste’ and Renault Trucks are testing the Renault Maxity truck with a fuel cell added to the electric driveline. Hence, the heavy batteries can stay away and the Maxity can theoretically drive about 200 km on one tank of hydrogen. The fuel cell considerably increases the range of the Maxity,…… Continue Reading
And here is even more Scania news! This is what we would call the new P- series cab, but in construction this could be a G? Probably? It is an 8×4 tipper truck and the best thing about these pictures from www.terrein.nu is that it shows the mirrors without camouflage! All together there is a…… Continue Reading
Iepieleaks has received more Scania wintertest pictures through www.autoliefhebber.com. The pictures show a 4×2 tractor unit wit what we would now call a Topline cab. Interesting is the LED bar above the windscreen. All Scania trucks that were spotted have one and this could be the next step in roof lights. They do give a…… Continue Reading
We have been watching ETF concept study’s, youtube movies and artist impressions for some year now but the first ETF Mining Truck is almost ready to roll now! The truck is built in Germany and in a few weeks the truck will be rolled out of the factory for the costumer to check it. Here…… Continue Reading
Kenworth produced its one millionth truck at its Chillicothe, Ohio, assembly facility in November. At the same time, Kenworth exists 75 years. The truck is an aerodynamic Kenworth T680 Advantage powered by a Paccar MX-13 engine, which was engineered and designed by DAF. Previously, Transam ordered no less than 1.000 of these trucks at Kenworth.…… Continue Reading
An anonymous Iepieleaks spy sent us this picture and we wonder, is this the real new Stralis or just a creative photoshop-version? Or is it an upcoming facelift? It does look good, and this design is completely in line with the latest Daily model. Iveco is coming with a new model but the information that…… Continue Reading
One of the things in the very spacious MAN cabs is the voluminous console next to the seat. The console that holds some switches, the handbrake and the switch for the automatic transmission eats a lot of floorspace. Now I just found this photo of all the functions of the console in a box on…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
BIGtruck Magazine Kippertest 2024
