Volkswagen Truck & Bus is eagerly looking to find savings by letting it’s truck manufacturers cooperate as much as possible. Right after the German IAA-show, some structure of the very young Truck & Bus Group of Volkswagen starts to show. Volkswagen wants Scania to develop drivelines and it wants MAN to work on chassis parts,…… Continue Reading
Volkswagen Truck & Bus Holding seeks expansion of it’s activities on the US market. Sources confirm that VW intends to buy a 16,6% stake in US truck manufacturer Navistar. VW intends to pay 256 million dollars in this transaction. Recently appointed CEO Andreas Renschler, formerly working at arch rival Daimler, intends to broaden the scope…… Continue Reading
With the MAN TGE, MAN enters the world of transporter vehicles for the first time since the seventies. What started at 7.5 tonnes in the past now has a total permitted weight of 3.0 tonnes. With the TGE, MAN puts a lightweight commercial vehicle on wheels that convinces users who have worked with its big…… Continue Reading
MAN presented most of the news for the IAA exhibition but they kept the biggest news under a cover. Yes, the new MAN TGE van is going to be presented in Hannover but no, we did not get a glimpse of it. For the heavy line MAN comes with a small facelift that gives some…… Continue Reading
The German magazine ‘Auto-Motor-und Sport’ is speculating about Volkswagen considering the sale of Scania. VW needs serious amounts of money for paying lawsuits and claims for the emissions scandal. According to sources at Reuters VW is trying to get a loan of 21 bilion dollar. One of the promisses should be selling one of the…… Continue Reading
Like in the eighties and nineties of the past century, Volkswagen and MAN intend to cooperate in heavy vans. Volkswagen are developing a brandnew Crafter after the cooperation with Mercedes in the heavy van segment stalled. Mercedes prefers to cooperate with Renault, leaving VW with the obligation to develop something entirely new in a completely…… Continue Reading
Next year Volkswagen will present the all new Volkswagen Crafter van series. The model that is on the market now was produced and designed together with Mercedes-Benz but the next generation will be a Volkswagen design. At the moment the building of the new factory in Poland is in progress. This new Volkswagen van will…… Continue Reading
MAN is launching a new generation of safety systems with the new EBA advanced emergency braking system, ESS Emergency stop signal and LGS lane guard with improved camera technology. MAN is currently introducing the new generation of advanced emergency braking system with sensor fusion (EBA emergency brake assist) and the emergency stop signal (ESS). At…… 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
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
