Now here are some interesting photo’s of the next Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, caught by Fedo Lapshin, working for the Russian magazine Autoreview. He claims he did not only make these photo’s, but he also drove these vans! What we can see is that the Sprinter body is moslty the same as we know it, but the…… Continue Reading
The upcoming new Mercedes Sprinter van, will come with a whole army of assistant systems. All are safety related and come from the renowned Mercedes passenger car technology. However, Mercedes has developed a cross wind assistant which opoerates the ESP system in case of fierce crosswinds. The system activates itself when the Sprinter moves faster…… Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz has won a prestigeus Design Award for the Actros series. The IF-Design Award was founded 60 years ago by the International Forum design in Hannover. The Actros won the price in the category ‘Communication and Packaging’ The Actros also won the ‘Red Dot’ Design Award of the Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, ‘German Design Award 2013’ and…… Continue Reading
After the Actros, Antos and Arocs we are now waiting for the new Mercedes-Benz Atego series. we still have to wait a few weeks before Mercedes-Benz is going to launch, but here is a glimpse of the news. We espect the same cab as the old Atego, but with new interiors and a new front…… Continue Reading
The new Bharat Benz heavy-duty is a big succes in India. In three months there were 1000 units sold! From the start of sales on September 26, 2012 until the year-end, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) sold 1,098 heavy-duty trucks between 25 and 31 tons. Furthermore, the heavy-duty truck with a vehicle weight of 31…… Continue Reading
The new Mercedes-Benz Arocs also has a special heavy duty version named Grounder. This truck is optimalised for heavy offroad jobs. Here’s the introduction movie of the Arocs Grounder: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R652F2yufE&w=560&h=315] … Continue Reading
Mercedes-Benz is going to launch the new Atego series on the CV Show in Birmingham in April, and on the Bauma exhibition in Munich. Today we got the first ‘artist impressions’ of the new Atego and they look prommising. The Euro 6 atego comes with seven different enging outputs and it has several novilties on…… Continue Reading
Daimler was for 15% owner of Kamaz but at the end of last year the Germans got a bigger share. In the new Kamaz trucks we find Mercedes-Benz axles, engines and even cabs. Kamaz now uses the OM457 engine and bus engines from Mercedes. The diesel engines come as Euro5. Also there ar gas engines…… Continue Reading
The new Mercedes-Benz Arocs construction vehicles come with an hydraulic driven front axle as an option. With this ‘Hydraulic Auxiliary Drive’ sytem the truck has the advantages of a driven front axle without the disadvantages. Compared with a conventional driven axle the new system is 500 kilo lighter and it saves fuel because of the…… Continue Reading
The Loader is the weight optimalised version of the Arocs. That makes it perfect for transporting more concrete! One of the weight savings is single rear wheels.… Continue Reading
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