IVECO’S X-WAYVISION
IF A WOCK is something you thwow at a wabbit, does that make an X-Way something you get fwom a quack?
Perhaps, but not in this case, because X-Way is actually a twuck. I mean, truck!
And lame humour aside, Stralis X-Way is arguably the smartest, safest and potentially most appealing range of heavy-duty cab-over trucks to emerge from the Iveco stable in a long, long time. Ever, perhaps!
Assembled at Iveco’s sprawling Dandenong (Vic) factory and targeting everything from off-road construction roles to local and long distance distribution work, X-Way is better equipped and better prepared than any of its predecessors to be more things to more people and in turn, boost Iveco’s business in the heavy-duty truck market.
But if you’re wondering about the meaning behind the name: “It is,” explains Iveco in a press statement, “a completely new range specifically developed for vocational and construction applications, providing the ‘perfect crossing’ (X-ing) for on-road work that also requires a level of off-road capability.” Again, more things to more people.
Put simply, X-Way is the latest and most comprehensive result of an evolutionary process dating back to the first appearance of Stralis at its European launch in Italy in late 2001.
To be blunt, though, early examples of Iveco’s flagship range weren’t particularly inspiring from an Australian perspective. Far from it, in fact,
As one of very few Australian truck reporters invited to a glitzy global launch event
