Just about one year after Dong Feng and Schmitz Cargobull signed a joined venture agreement the building of a new trailer factory in Wuhan started. The new trailer factory will start producing the first trailers. Schmitz Cargobull designed a special model for China. Both partners invest about one hundred miljon Euro in the new trailer…… Continue Reading
Now this is the new Volat 741600 heavy transport tractor of the Russian brand MZKT. The truck is designed for transporting up to 250 tons. It has a Euro-4 Cummins QSX15 600 hp engine and a Chinese ‘Fast Gear’ manual 16JSD240TA gearbox with a lockable hydraulic WSK coupling. (source: http://www.trucksplanet.com/… Continue Reading
In Moskow the Comtrans show opened the doors, and the first big event was the announcing of the winner of the Truck of the Year 2014, the Volvo FH. At the show all European, Russian and Asian brands show their latest products, including Hyundai with the new Xcient. Here you find some photo’s that I…… Continue Reading
Sinotruck does not only produce trucks for the road, they also have the Hova terminal tractors. Recently 50 of them were sold to Saudi Arabia. Source: Chinatruck.org… Continue Reading
Chinese truckbrand Sinotruck Howo uses Volvo cabs, and I did see the ‘FH-like’ truck many times. New to me is the front design of the old Volvo FL cab. It does look good on the Howo! Sinotruck seems to grow fast, and there is a lot of development going on. In the past years the…… Continue Reading
These design illustrations are from BYD, or Build Your Dream. This Chinese manufactorer seems to be working on a rather good looking van, or pickup as you like. I found it on Jokeforblog.blogspot.nl… Continue Reading
The Chinese keep suprising us with new models. Here is the DongFeng 760 as 6×4 tractor unit. The truck has a ‘European Style’ spacious cab and looks good!… Continue Reading
The former Yougoslavian truck-and bus brand TAM is comming back! On april 27 the Chinese CHTC company together with the Dutch-Austrian company DuraBus took over the remains of the factory and the brand in Maribor, Slovenia. 51% of the shares are in Chinese hands, the rest is for the Dutch-Austrian company. Focus is on elektric…… Continue Reading
And here is another heavily cammouflaged truck that i found through a tip from Fedor Lashin, my new Russian Iepieleaks spie! He found it on www.360che.com and on Google Translate he found out that it is a DongFeng D760. DongFeng as we know is the biggest truck manufactorer in the world, but mainly in the…… Continue Reading
The Chinese like to copy things, and here is a nice example. This is a Dong Feng truck that basicly is a copy of the Mercedes-Benz Econic. Earyer this design was also show by FAW, that is another Chinese brand. You see the FAW truck in the two photo’s below this story. The strange thing…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
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