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2016 MAN TGX
The people of MAN have a hard time. Interwoven with a group of currently uncertain reputation, married to the somewhat stubborn sister Scania, the compete supposedly even harder than Mercedes. But
the Scania people have brought a transmission, that can be integrated well easier than the one of ZF.
New head of commercial vehicles came from Daimler.
The market for commercial vehicles is so hard contested that Mercedes warns in the second half of the year not to be able to keep the double-digit growth of the first half. Now, the VW managers even add a share of 16.6 percent in the American manufacturer Navistar. The trucks there are indeed fundamentally different, but not in terms of the cost-intensive powertrain, for the apply also strict rules meanwhile.
Sales 2015 in billion euros
MAN
13,7
Scania
10,5
VW Commercial Vehicles
10,3
The new Euro 6C rules have stopped further developement of the V8. Its displacement and performance are reached now by six-cylinder inline engines, incidentally, the first time equipped with steel pistons. The
sequentially connected double turbo existed previously. To the further course of the drive train, you can read about here.
Thanks to sophisticated electronics, the TGX automatically glides now by the new tilt sensor and allows 'rocking free' despite insufficient
clutch pedal. It cannot drive autonomously, but with appropriate equipment, according to Knorr in emergency situations braking
automatically and safely up to 80 km/h. 09/16