Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz is developing a new series of constructiontrucks and miningtrucks. Recently, they showed this newly developed five axle 10×6 truck, capable of carrying 60 tons! The new Kamaz K5 is the first of a whole new range of Kamaz trucks to be developed specifically for offroad use. It’s exterior looks vey nice…… Continue Reading
Kamaz is now working with Daimler and that shows. This is the new Continent named truck, based on the 54901 truck. It now has mirrorcams and Kamaz takes it one step further than Daimler. This truck has only mirrorcams, even for the blind spot on the front. Also the truck has a good looking dashboard…… Continue Reading
Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz will start assembling engines on a new line from March this year in a newly built plant. In the past, Kamaz relied for decades on an ancient and relatively inefficient V8 design. Now, together with German company Liebherr, the Russians developed an inline six twelve litre engine, said to become available…… Continue Reading
At the commercial vehicles exhibition COMTRANS 2017, KAMAZ showed a prototype of a new heavy duty tractor called KAMAZ 54901. We did show the truck before but this picture of the truck in the real world gives a better impression. The truck has the Actros cab with a new designed grille. KAMAZ plans to start…… Continue Reading
Kamaz has introduced a complete new cab for the long distance trucks. As we can see on these photo’s the new Kamaz cab is the Actros cab of Mercedes. That is no suprise, because Daimler is one of the main shareholders of the Russian truckbrand Kamaz. The suprise is that the Russians now present this…… Continue Reading
Kamaz is updating the 5490 model trucks. These models are based on the Mercedes-Benz Axor but Kamaz did a good job on making their own face. The manual transmission is from ZF, the automated version is probably from Mercedes. One thing is shure, the Kamaz design team did a great job making the old Axor…… Continue Reading
Now here we see the first photo’s of the next Kamaz rallytruck for DAKAR. This year we espected Kamaz to join the DAKAR rally with the bonneted truck but that was not the case. Now these photo’s show the black bonneted truck during testing and that gives us the impression the truck is going to…… Continue Reading
Kamaz is taking of now with new, good looking 41 and 50 ton dump trucks. They have Mercedes-Benz cabs, Chinese MAN/Steyr licenced axles and Chinese Cummins 12 litres engines with 410 Hp. Option is also a Kamaz V8 engine with about the same output. The gearbox is a 16 speed ZF. These trucks are for offroad…… Continue Reading
Now here is an intersting movie about how Kamaz sees the future. We at Iepieleaks are impressed! https://youtu.be/PrgsT5F2r_I… Continue Reading
Now here is a very special old photo. At the end of the eighties DAF was growing fast. The brand decided to stay with the last seven truckbrands in Europe and it even planned to take over the Britisch Leyland brand. Well, they did! In the meanwhile Gorbatsjov was in charge in Russia and state…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 12 2024
BIGtruck Magazine Kippertest 2024
