Road Test
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s we said back at the start of 2021, without the Daily, Iveco would be in a world of pain as a truck company in Australia, such is the reliance the company seems to have on the light duty cab-chassis truck/ light van range. That seemed fairly flippant when we wrote it back In January, but now after the announcement that Iveco’s local manufacturing operation will be shutting down, the reliance on the Daily has only
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been further underlined. Last year in 2020, Iveco sold 889 Daily light duty cab chassis trucks and 298 vans while it sold a total of 520 medium and heavy duty Eurocargos and Stralis models. In 2021 the final figures weren’t in when this story was being written, but it looked likely that they would sell just under 1000 Daily cab chassis, around 450 vans, and a total of around 450 medium Eurocargos and heavy Stralis combined. All that only underlines that Iveco’s reliance on the
Daily is growing not shrinking. For us the configuration of European sourced cab chassis trucks, derived from van designs, holds a lot of appeal. They deliver better ride thanks to the bonneted conventional design, with the cab sitting further back in the chassis and the driver and passengers not sitting directly over the front wheels. So now months after the new Euro 6 compliant models hit the road in Australia we got the chance to sample both the
