The new Medium truck for Canada - 8x8 Mack

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

Nice looking truck. It is also nice to see it go to a North American manufacture and design, as opposed to a European or Eastern bloc model. I believe Tatra had a horse or two in the race. Not to belittle Tatra, as I am sure they are fine trucks over on the other side of the world where they belong, but they are not native to here.

It looks very European to me - we do build the best trucks and cars in the world, mind you

Mack Trucks is a subsidiary of AB Volvo which purchased Mack along with Renault Trucks in 2000. If you have a close read, you will see Volvo is the driving force behind it and in fact the truck is a re-badged Renault Kerax 8x8 truck. Assembly will be (partly) native, maybe some North American component manufacture (battery, tyres, etc?), but major manufacture and design is European - so much for "native", eh?

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[Frank v R]

just looking at the truck and having worked for Mercedes for 36 years I see no North American design features , this will be a foreign design assembled in Canada vehicle once again , I do hope that they make the truck a dumb truck for the battle field unlike the G-wagon, I know that the chassis will be outstanding considering the design features of European heavy trucks, Mack only in name, my 2 cents,