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
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
Volkswagen has bought a significant number of shares of Navistar last month, US sources say. The German automaker, keen to create a globally operating truck manufacturing division, teamed up with Navistar in September last year. Now, VW increases it’s share to 17% of the Navistar total. The truck division of Volkswagen consists of MAN, Scania,…… Continue Reading
Now here is a picture that one of our friends sent in to Iepieleaks. It is a MAN and apart from the camouflage on the front we see nothing new. The only thing that is different is that this truck has the shorter front bumper and that makes the front-underrun protection system vissible. For the…… Continue Reading
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
In The Netherlands Scania celebrated the 125th birthday with a classic truckrun. 125 classic Scania trucks made a convoi trip to Zwolle. BIGtruck and Iepieleaks made this movie to remember this great event. … Continue Reading
Navistarannounched their SuperTruck demonstration vehicle, CatalIST last wednesday. This truck achieved a freight efficiency improvement of 104 percent and that is more than double the 50 percent goal set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its SuperTruck program. Against a 2009 base line model truck, the CatalIST Supertruck achieved a fuel economy of 13 miles…… Continue Reading
Now here are some photo’s that were teken by Erik-Jan Moes. The interesting thing is that this is a 10×4 truck and that means the Construction models are coming. The cab seems to be the R- cab that was introduced but the mirrors are new to us. Is this the more basic construction type of…… Continue Reading
Now with the new R- and S- types launched we are all waiting for the new G- P and Construction trucks. Scania people say that it could take up to 1,5 year before the complete new range is launched. Untill then the current ‘old’ models will still be produced and sold. First the production in…… Continue Reading
Here’s the first picture of the new Scania, watch our website, for more info later this day. Obviously the grille’s much bigger, which suggests that the new models feature EGR. The front is also more sharply streamlined. The top lights remind us from the DAF XF like many of you say. The dash occupies less…… Continue Reading
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