RIGID ADHERENCE
The rigid truck market is facing a tilt from an unexpected quarter next year, with Scania Australia to enter the fray armed with safety equipment and a 7.0-litre Euro 6 engine.
The Swedish firm acknowledges this with the smallest truck engine Scania has offered in decades, in terms of both displacement and external dimensions.
It insists the engines are ideal for urban and regional distribution applications but underlines that comfort and safety is the key to its push into a market marked by what it believes is in need of upgrading.
Thus the DC07 range includes steering wheel and side curtain rollover airbag protection, a quiet engine, modern suspension delivering and “segment-leading” ergonomics and instrumentation, including in-dash weight scales readouts for
