Today Scania is launching a new 13 litres Gas engine in Rimini at the Ecomondo exhibition. The new gas engine is an oto-engine, so it works with sparkplugs. The new Scania engine can be ordered with LNG or CNG tanks. On LNG the truck can travel up to 1100 km far with a max GVW…… Continue Reading
Well known French transport company Beau ordered this new NextGen Scania and had it modified in The Netherlands. It is an S500 with Assassins Creed as it’s theme. This is a popular computergame which plays in ancient Egypt. Many of us know that with Beau, trucks are very special en personalised in a specific style.…… Continue Reading
Scania is testing the new generation trucks on LNG. This test truck was caught at a LNG gas station somewhere in Sweden. Question is if Scania is comming with higher output engines for LNG and automated transmissions. Iveco now has LNG trucks up to 400 Hp, and Volvo will come soon with dual-fuel LNG trucks…… Continue Reading
On the last Scania post about the ‘Lowrider’ we got a very interesting comment from Germany. The blue truck is sayd to be a P-sleepercab with low roof. But our German friend has more to tell: In the Scania test vehicle fleet there are several vehicles with the flat roof option. The white tractor on…… Continue Reading
One of our readers spotted these trucks in Borlange, Sweden. We thought we’ve seen all the Scania news but we never saw this version before. It looks like a G- sleepercab with low roof. It does look like a lowrider this way! Interesting is also the four-axled S500. The G- highroof sleeper has a covered…… Continue Reading
Scania has presented a new option for the new generation of trucks. Like the other Swedish truckbrand now Scania also offers an electric handbrake. This is not the standard brake, but an option. Another option is the ‘Clutch on demand.’ The clutch pedal can be ignored but when the driver decides he wants more control…… Continue Reading
The Dutch Ministery of Defens has ordered 2037 new Scania XT trucks. The trucks will be built by the largest plant of Scania, in Zwolle, in The Netherlands. It is the biggest defense order for Scania ever. All kinds of variants are bought ranging from two to four axles. Also, the dutch Defense authority bought…… Continue Reading
Scania just launched the XT construction vehicles and that completes the Scania ‘nextgen’ programm. In the past years we had a lot of scoops with Scania fieldtest trucks and now Scania released some photo’s of these trucks during the official launch. It is always good to show again, these old iepieleaks friends, and it gives…… Continue Reading
tomorrow the new Scania Construction series will be launched. The new series is named XT.… Continue Reading
On this photo, made by Truckphoto Helsingborg, we see a Scania badged as a G500. The same truck was caught last year by a Dutch truckdriver and at that time it had camouflage prints over the cab. The only thing that is hidden is now the front bumper that looks like a construction bumper. It…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
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