New Mack Truck

Are they all automatics now?

 

That M Drive transmission was really driver friendly. I liked the one I drove.

 

Ive driven the vision, pinnacle, r models and currently pushing around a 14year old ch.

Since volvo and mack are one now, i think this new truck is going to scream volvo with just mack name plates and decals.

Im a very big fan of the r model. Give me fuel tanks with the steps made into the tank. Ahhhhhh ####. Might be better than sex. Lol. Just kidding.

 

Hated macks until I started driving this 2015 with the mp8 truck pulls great and I've driven most from u models to r's to ch's and visions 300hp to the 460xtorque ones from 5speeds,duplex's to 18speeds and the mp8 stock will outpull all of them.

 

Guess I need to wait 60 days, 19 hours and xx minutes to see it. No Crackbook. Can't unlock the top secret stuff.

 

Im more partial to the older Macks. My last new Mack day cab was a CH model from the 90's that first year they built them. It was a very good truck for the area I ran in (Mid atlantic states during winter) where ice did not bother it much. I also had a CH sleeper truck for regional and the quality of sleep was good. But it was with a company overstrict with speed so there is no point in going any further with something that was really bad in those days.

I ran more macks again here in Arkansas for concrete ready mix going into pretty extreme terrain, this is with a modern R model mack relatively speaking compared to what was availible then not too many years ago going in to the 2000's There has been a couple of job sites in which any other type of truck would have been flipped over or broken.

Little Rock had Autocars, two of them. Had as in past tense, they have one of them now. One got rolled, mashing the cab. And a couple of other older iron that was a joy to drive.

The more the new companies push out the so called future new trucks the harder I hold on to the old iron because those trucks did everything you asked them to do and then some.

I see they want to use the square steering wheel. I don't care for it. That comes from racing and there is no need for that reinventing the good old round wheel. They will probably make the first sales effort through leasing at a loss. Not too many companies will have the 200K retail pricing on those tractors.