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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * Canada: Western Star introduces new aerodynamic highway tractor * USA: Toyota's Urban Concept
* Nevada - The 5700XE will be as much as 15% more fuel-efficient than Western Star’s previous top-performer
Las Vegas,NEV,USA -Truck News, by James Menzies -September 11, 2014: -- The trucking industry today got its first look at the Western Star 5700XE... The new aerodynamic highway tractor was used as inspiration for the Optimus Prime character in the popular Transformers movie that debuted this summer... The design of the 5700 was well underway when Hollywood came calling.The new model retained much of the 5700’s real-life design when bringing Optimus Prime to life... The 5700XE is a gorgeous truck, that retains Western Star’s distinctive look while improving fuel economy by as much as 15% compared to a 4900FE, which was until now the most fuel-efficient vehicle in Western Star’s stable. It looks markedly different than currently available aerodynamic tractors, yet can compete with them head-to-head when to comes to fuel economy. About 7% of the fuel savings come from improved aerodynamics and further gains are possible by spec’ing an integrated Detroit powertrain, including the DD15 engine, DT12 automated manual transmission and Detroit axles with a ratio of 2.41 in a 6×4 configuration...
* Nevada - Western Star seeing growth, thanks to introduction of 4700
Las Vegas,NEW,USA -Truck News, by James Menzies -September 11, 2014: -- Western Star may control just 2.6% of the North American Class 8 market. The truck maker has seen its net orders increase by about 50% year-to-date in 2014, which represents stronger growth than any other OEM has experienced over the same period... The company represent 3% of the Canada/US market this year, which means it has to strengthen its presence in the US. About 45% of the trucks Western Star builds come to Canada, where its market share is about 9%. In the US it sits at about 1.5%... Western Star has Canadian roots, having been designed and built in Kelowna, B.C. before Daimler acquired the company in 2000... Already, the 4700 represents about 39% of Western Star’s sales (the 4800 and 4900 account for about 60% of production)... Ann Demitruk, head of marketing for Western Star, said the 4700 gave the truck maker an in with the government/municipality, wholesale/retail, mixer, food and beverage, crane and utility segments...
* California - Toyota U2: Flexible urban entrepreneur mobility concept
San Francisco,CAL,USA -Examiner, by James Nelson -September 10, 2014: -- Toyota revealed an early version of the U2 Urban Utility Concept vehicle yesterday at San Francisco, Calif., in a private discussion meeting... The concept as shown in the meeting was developed by Toyota Calty Design Research and was a work in process for discussion and further input from the Maker community. The first public appearance of the U2 concept vehicle will be at the World Maker Faire in New York City on Sept. 20 and 21...
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