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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS WORLDWIDE * Sweden - A Volvo FH16 750 hp pushed
* UK - Iveco Eurocargo hybrid truck makes UK debut
* Thailand - GM opens new diesel engine plant
(Photo: GM Southeast Asia president Martin Apfel with some of the new diesel engines)
Rayong,Thailand -Just Auto, by Dave Leggett -9 September 2011: -- General Motors has opened a new diesel engine plant in Rayong, Thailand... The US$200m facility, is GM’s first diesel engine plant in the region and is also the first in the world to produce GM's all-new family of Duramax four-cylinder diesel engines... GM says the highly flexible plant has the capability to manufacture approximately 120,000 engines per year for use in vehicles built in Thailand and other global markets. GM expects to source US$94m worth of Thai-built components for the production of engines at its Rayong facility by 2012... * France - First production Kangoo Z.E. rolling off the line
* Brazil - China’s Foton Motors to build truck factory in
Sao Paulo,SP,Brazil -Macau Hub (China) -September 12, 2011: -- Chinese automotive company Foton Motors, one of the world’s largest truck manufacturers, plans to invest US$500 million in building a factory in Brazil... The company’s officials at the beginning of last wee visited the state of Goiás, where they looked at potential locations for the factory, and that the state of Pernambuco was another potential location for the Chinese factory... The factory is expected to start operating in 2014, and will initially focus its production on so-called light goods trucks of 3, 6 and 9 tons... Founded in August, 1996 and based in Beijing, the Beiqi Foton Motor Co. manufactures light and heavy goods vehicles, agricultural tractors and a variety of machinery. In 2010 is set up a partnership with Daimler AG to manufacture Auman branded trucks in China...
* Italy - Fiat to sell Doblo van in USA & Canada under Ram brand
(Photo/Luca Bruno/AP, File: A Fiat logo is seen on a car retailer's window in Milan, Italy)
Rome,Italy -The Associated Press -Sep. 9, 2011: -- Fiat SpA, which controls Chrysler, plans o sell its Doblo van in the USA and Canada starting in 2013... The Turin-based automaker said Friday the Fiat Doblo vehicles would be sold under the Ram brand... Fiat said it had signed a letter of understanding with its Turkish joint-venture partner Tofas for the export of 190,000 units under a seven-year-deal... The Doblo is made at the Tofas plant in Bursa, Turkey. A Fiat statement said Tofas would invest more than $160 million (C115 million) to make the necessary adjustments for the North American market... Fiat has completed its purchase of USA and Canadian government shares of Chrysler to become the majority stockholder...* Germany - Volkswagen reveals updated commercial vehicle line-up
(Photo: Volkswagen reveals updated commercial vehicle line up)
Wolfsburg,Germany -Transport Engineer (UK), by Brian Tinham -14 Sept 2011: -- Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has unveiled new models in each of its three commercial vehicle ranges – Multivan, Amarok and Caddy – at IAA in Frankfurt, Germany... The Caddy Edition 30 Frankfurt model is powered by the 2-litre TDI engine that delivers 170ps, making the most powerful Caddy ever... Amarok is now available with an automatic transmission, after Volkswagen dropped an 8-speed gearbox into the pickup. More frugal than the manual version, the automatic Amarok – fitted with a BlueMotion-equipped 2-litre TDi engine – consumes 7.6L/100km... Finally, the Multivan BlueMotion is the most fuel-efficient Multivan ever. Powered by a 114ps 2-litre TDI, the van consumes 0.9 litres less diesel per 100km than the current 102ps standard model... The average fuel consumption of just 6.4L/100km equates to CO2 emissions of 169 grams per km (24 grams less), made possible by high-torque, common rail four-cylinder engines, combined with a Stop/Start system, battery regeneration, tyres with particularly low rolling resistance and special aerodynamic measures...* India - Ashok Leyland launches LCV 'Dost' at Rs 3.79 lakh
* Russia - Daimler-Kamaz join forces to roll-out new truck for
(Photo: Kamaz 5460 tractor)
Naberezhnye,Chelny,Russia -Indian Cars Bikes -19 Sept 2011: -- The joint venture between German truck makers at Daimler and Russia’s Kamaz has produced their first product aimed primarily for the Russian market. The car branded as Kamaz was showcased at the Comtrans commercial vehicle show in Moscow. The heavy duty truck has been developed jointly by Daimler and Kamaz. Both companies also plan to collaborate to produce truck cabs... The new Daimler-Kamaz truck will go on sale in Russia in 2014. By the end of next year, Daimler will begin delivering cabs to Kamaz but overtime the Russian truck manufacturer will begin building truck cabs at the Chelny unit...
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