Yet another unique and extraordinary experience awaits hardworking truckers in this year’s edition of the Shell Rimula global promotion. In September 2015, Shell Rimula will be bringing customers from around the world on an exclusive trip to the Budapest, Hungary to experience the FIA European Truck Racing championship. Guests will get exclusive race access at […]
DAF and TNO demonstrated the “EcoTwin” project in front of the Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, Schultz van Haegen and her Belgian colleague Galant recently, in order to show how two trucks can be wirelessly linked via WiFi and driven a short distance from each other, with the driver in the second truck […]
Readers of Motor Klassik, Auto Zeitung, Auto Bild and Auto Motor und Sport have voted for LIQUI MOLY as the best brand of oil in Germany. “Honestly speaking, we really don’t feel bad about being at the very top of the podium”, said Ernst Prost, Managing Partner of the motor oil and additive specialist. “But […]
Michelin has just announced its acquisition of a 40% stake in Allopneus SAS, the leading French internet tyre retailer on the web, for €60million. Based at Aix-en-Provence, Allopneus sold some 3 million tyres in France in 2014, and is enjoying strong growth, accounting today for 7% of the French market. Run by Didier BLAISE, its […]
Barely weeks before the start of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship, some of the teams have arrived for extensive testing at the Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic. Last year this session took place three weeks later in the year. The truck racers won’t want to be reminded how it poured buckets and how […]
The partnership between Castrol and the Hahn family team has been a well-oiled machine since 2012. After two titles together in the FIA European Truck Racing Championship, they added a second place in the continental championship last year. In 2015 they embark upon a new chapter together, under the heading “Castrol Vecton – Oil of […]
The Malaysia International Bus, Truck and Components Expo (MIBTC 2015) is all set to take place this year from 14 to 16 May 2015 at the Malaysia International Exhibition and Convention Centre (MIECC), with a strong line-up of exhibitors and exciting fringe programs. The second instalment of MIBTC is supported by the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) and 15 […]
Scania will deliver an additional 100 chassis to Taiwanese bus bodybuilder Gen-Chen. The company has worked with Scania since the early 1990s, and in recent years exclusively relies on Scania. “Scania has built a strong name for itself in the Taiwanese bus market over the past 30 years,” says Chen Horn-Ho, Chairman of Gen-Chen. “Our […]
This is the Tata Tuff Truck Concept (based on the new Xenon pickup) which is without a doubt, an attention-grabbing pickup that comes from the base industrial friendly Xenon pickup which is currently on sale in Malaysia at all Tata dealers . This Tuff Truck Concept is not intended for production for now but it […]
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., the nation’s biggest carmaker by volume, plans to challenge Tata Motors Ltd.’s dominance in the small truck segment with their own model. Maruti plans to introduce in the next four months vehicles with a payload of about one ton and sell them through separate showrooms. The vehicles, to be initially sold […]
