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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* India - Tata Motors to launch 30 new CV modelsMumbai,India -sify.com/finance -22 December , 2007: -- Tata Motors said it will launch 30 new models in the commercial vehicle segment in the current financial year... Tata launched seven medium and heavy trucks in Pune on Thursday. The company will launch four more in the financial year 2008. The new vehicles include a 49-tonne tractor trailer, a 49-tonne Novus tractor and a 31-tonne truck with lift-axle. All vehicles comply with the BS II emission norms. The new 49-tonne tractor on Novus platform comes with an AC cabin, radial tyres and a power capacity of 295.8 HP and is priced Rs 33 lakh... (Picture: Tata's NOVUS 6X4 TRACTOR)
* India - No joint badging for Eicher-Volvo
Mumbai,India -sify.com/finance, by Rabin Ghosh -22 December , 2007: -- Eicher Motors’ proposed commercial vehicle (CV) joint venture (JV) company, in which Sweden’s Volvo will have a 50 per cent interest, will not see any joint badging of products, a senior company official said on Friday... Future launches, which include manufacturing of Volvo trucks in India, will happen out of the yet-unnamed JV... Volvo India’s Bangalore unit, which is not part of the JV, has virtually stopped manufacturing trucks and has confined itself to top-end luxury buses... Hence, Volvo’s $45 billion truck ambitions in India will need to be realised by the JV...
* Daimler Trucks: nobody casts CGI better
Germany -Automotive World (UK), by John Mortimer -21 December, 2007: -- Daimler's trucks division has claimed that its foundry in Mannheim, Germany, is more efficient at casting compacted graphite iron products than any other facility in the world...
* USA - Comment: The New NGM Chassis
USA -forums.firehouse.com, by firefish63 -21 Dec 2007: -- A sure way to sell more engines......for IH/Navistar. Not only is their extreme re-positioning and re-alligning in the firetruck business, it is in every business. There will be pretty significant chanegs this upcoming year in the fire business without exception.....!!! For those ready to buy....think hard, ask alot and make sound decisions to stable companies....be it a small family brand or more importantly...watch the big guys....there is much unrest. But anyways....thought I would pass along the GM and Navistar announcement...
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