Cabovers

V12 cat? Holy c**p! Must have sounded fantastic

 

Well that's a Bullnose KW, thanks for posting.

 

I suget bullnose may save driver's feet and legs in case of accident. So IMO this design would be better is light of passive safety comparing with classical COE.

This kind of design is still used by Mercedes, small Vario trucks are of this design.

they got no tilt cab, engine is OM904 (MBE900), 4-cyl, but acess to engine from hood and with latch inside cab, like on mid size Vans.

I remember old Ryder ford trucks of similar design

 

scania lobbied to law makers to give them 60cm more for crash zone space


this would save 900lives per year of 4000total victims per year in crash where trucks are involved

would be 250kg







i have somewhere pictures of truck which is based on 4series with same extension on front

 

Imo, combination of classical COE and about 0.6-1 M of hood would be the future cabover design.

But seems to me future cab will look like a front end of family wan of Caravan ore Windstar ore Vito style. Combination of crash zone, small hood and aerodynamic design.

 

do you remember their concept of 2010´s truck from 1999

8axle all single wheels all wheels closed 64t 25m

 

yeah, i do






IMO, this is the future highway truck

Urban truck will cabover be anyway

And of cource electrically driven trucks are the future.

 

well electrical drive completely is hard imaginable for now but electric transmission is not that far








here is link for truck of future ( from 1999)
http://toolkitstatic.scania.com/millennium/archive/2001.html

 

here is one cabover r500 from germany with EMS setup trailers are from company huttner from landsberg am lech

i cant understand why they still use cranes above cab instead of Z cranes

 

www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/36281/