* China - Great Wall Wingle 6 concept is a big pickup truck for
Shanghai,SH,China -Car News China, by Tycho de Feijter -Originally published April 21, 2013: -- This is the new and giant Great Wall Wingle 6 pickup truck concept, it debuted earlier on the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show in China. The Wingle 6 previews a new large pickup truck that will be launched on the Chinese car market in 2014. The Wingle 6 will be the biggest pickup truck under the Great Wall brand so far... There will be three engines available in the production version: 2.0 petrol, 2.0 turbo petrol and a 2.4 liter turbodiesel. The Wingle 6 is even bigger than expected, size: 5340/1800/1755, wheelbase yet unknown. The market for large pickup trucks is growing in China. Many car buyers from rural areas have much more money to spend than only five years ago and are perfectly willing to spend it on bigger cars. Price for the Wingle 6 will start around 130.000 yuan (21.000 U$S) and will end around 180.000 yuan...
* Australia - Giant trucks more popular than ever
(A driverless Komatsu 930E-AT. Komatsu’s 930E range have a maximum payload capacity over 300 tonnes)
West Perth,Western Australia -The AJM Online, by Oliver Probert -Aug 21, 2013: --
The biggest trucks are now among the most popular in the resources industry, according to intelligence specialists IntierraRMG... A new report from IntierraRMG shows that, in 2012, 640 ‘ultra-class’ trucks (defined as having a payload of over 290 tonnes) were delivered around the world... That represented over 25% of delivered truck capacity in 2012... The new deliveries brought the total number of ultra-class trucks in operation worldwide to 3004 – representing 16% of global truck payload...
* China - Foton Motor to build truck factory in Brazil
China -IANS/EFE/SME Times -16 Aug, 2013: -- China's Foton Motor plans to invest 250 million reais ($108 million) to build a truck factory in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, the state government said... Under the terms of the agreement between Foton Aumark Brasil, subsidiary of the Chinese automaker, and the Rio Grande do Sul government, the factory will be built in Guaiba, a suburb of the regional capital of Porto Alegre... The Chinese company expects annual output at this Brazilian plant of as many as 21,000 trucks with carrying capacity of between 3.5 tonnes and 24 tonnes...
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