And here is the GAZ Gazelle from Russia in different models. The orange one is a 3,5 ton double cab, and the vehicle in the midle is an 18 seater minibus. The last one is a bonneted truck with a different nose. The diesel engines in the small versions come from Cummins in China. The engine in the heavy truck could be a Russian YAMZ engine. The light versions will be produced from comming autumn. The heavy versions will follow next year.
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GAZ Gazelle
New Sprinter has arrived!
Mercedes-Benz showed photo’s of the new Sprinter series. The new Sprinter has a new front design and also some details on the back were redesigned. The sprinter comes standard with a automatic seven-step 7G gearbox that, togehter with the BlueEfficiency package brings fuel consumption down to 6,3 litres per 100 km.
The new Sprinter comes standard with ESP and the new Croswind Assistant system. Further the new Sprinter can be equipes with all kinds of safety features like collision waring.
New Ford Transit Courier
Last week Ford showed the new Transit Courier on the CV show in Birmingham. The new van is going on sale next year. There are different petrol and diesel engines like 75, 95 or 99 Hp versions of the one-liter Ecoboost diesel engine.
The new Gazelle
And here is straight from Russia, the new Gazelle! The Russian GAZ Group invested 125 milion Euro’s in this new light commercial vehicle. Here you see the new Gazelle during testing. The new Russian minitruck looks good, not only on the outside, but also the interior.
Photo’s: Fedor Lapshin http://trucks.autoreview.ru/
New Sprinter comming soon!
And there is another photo i found of the new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. I found the photo on the facebook page of my Greek collegue Vassilis Daramouskas, and on this photo he is driving the Van!
Volkswagen studies small electric van
Volkswagen technicians have declared in the German press that a new van, smaller than the Caddy, is under development. This van will be electrically driven. At the recent Geneva Motor Show, Volkswagen unveiled the e-Co-Motion concept, which looks like a Transporter, but which has the dimensions of the Caddy. The new van will be even smaller than the e-Co-Motion.
Volkswagen emphasises that environmental requirements for delivery vehicles in cities will become much tighter in future. Menawhile, Volkswagen has developed electric drivelines for the Golf and Up! passenger cars. These drivelines are built around Lithium Ion batteries.
It is totally unclear what the exact dimensions of the new small van will be, but it is for sure that they will be nearly similar to that of the Fiat Fiorino, Peugeot Bipper, Citroën Nemo triplets. Volkswagen leraned from it’s fleet customers that they also look for a more versatile vehicle, with greater steering angles.
Crosswind assistant for new Mercedes Sprinter
The upcoming new Mercedes Sprinter van, will come with a whole army of assistant systems. All are safety related and come from the renowned Mercedes passenger car technology. However, Mercedes has developed a cross wind assistant which opoerates the ESP system in case of fierce crosswinds.
The system activates itself when the Sprinter moves faster than 80 km/h/50 mp/h. At this stage, no details about prices yet. Mercedes also helps the driver of the new Sprinter to ‘overlook’ the aera around the vehicle which is hardly visible with the aid of mirrors. So Mercedes has developed a radar system which helps again by avoiding your new Sprinter to get involved in a collision.
The new Mercedes Sprinter is set for introduction in June.
New vans in Geneva
The Geneva Motor Show features, apart from some exotic supercars, also a number of new vans. Showing in this picture is the passenger car version of the new Ford Courier, Fords small van which will be positioned under the next generation Transit Connect. Pictures of this new Transit Connect do not circulate, so please send us some if you this new and slightly bigger Ford.
In Birmingham, Ford will show the panel van version of the Courier, which will be built in Turkey. The new Courier will offer choice from two engines, a petrol 1.6 and a diesel 1.5 engine.
Also on show in Geneva was the Volkswagen e-co-Motion. This is an electric van with platform dimensions quite the same as the Caddy. However, the e-Co-Motion has the looks of a Transporter. It is obvious that manufacturers are highly interested in the segment of smaller vans. These are aimed at firms handling the distribution of goods bought online. We see that Volkswagen is clearly intending to bring out alternative drivelines, such as an electric van, whereas Ford, in the middle of a complete revamp of its van-line, sticks to the old petrol and diesel solutions.
Official: Ram Promaster
On the Chicago Motorshow the Ram Promaster is presented. It is a rebranded Fiat Ducato and it comes with a 3,6 liter V6 petrol engine or with Fiat’s 3.0 diesel.
For much more details and a video about this Ram Promaster van, click on the ‘Read more’ button!
Toyota ProAce
Before the end of this year Toyota comes with the ProAce van. In fact this is a rebadged Sevel van that we know from Fiat, Citroën and Peugeot.
It is clear that the Hi-Ace was no big succes on the European market and that is why the Japanese went shopping in Europe. The ProAce comes in two lengths and roofhights.
