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GAZ Valdai Gaz will soon introduce the new Valdai truck in the Russian market.
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amed after an upland region in the north-west of central Russia and about midway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow, spanning Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, and Smolensk Oblasts, the Valdai Hills is home to diverse flora and fauna. It attracts tourists and is home to historical cities of Ostashkov and Valday. Home to many fresh water lakes as well, which are fed by the melting glaciers from up north, the Valdai Hills are set to extend their name to yet another significant product from the GAZ stable. To make an appearance this autumn, the GAZ Valdai follows in the footstep of a similar
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Fedor Lapshin named truck that was produced from 2005 till 2015. A mediumclass flat bed truck with a GVW of five-tonnes, the early models were produced in association with MAZ. With the Minsk residents refusing to supply their GAZ type MAZ-5336 after the economic collapse of the late 1990s, GAZ took to develop its own cabin to fit on the chassis that it produced at Nizhny Novgorod. The cabin would later come to support the Gazelle line of light and medium-duty trucks because of their modern architecture. Showcased as a four-tonner in 1999 at the Moscow International Automobile Salon, the Valdai, beginning production in 2005,
turned out to be popular model with reversed front suspension, the introduction of new front and rear axles, low-profile tyres and a pneumatic braking system that was refined to include an ABS. Subject to an entire set of design modifications in terms of modernising it, the Valdai, with a low-loading height (1000 mm), comfortable suspension, an advanced braking system, and an economical diesel engine, sold in good numbers. If its choice of multiple engines (a diesel MMZ D-245.7, a gas (Steyr)-562, a Cummins 3.9 140 CIV and an IVECO-8143) over time made it popular, the Valdai also sprang an experimental version (GAZ43483) with a reinforced chassis
