Hyundai New Power Truck

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The Hyundai New Power Truck is produced as a successor to the medium-duty truck variant of the Hyundai Super Truck since June 2004. Since 2006, the New Power Truck is offered parallel to succeed Hyundai Trago on the domestic market only in 4x2 and 6x4 versions with 8 to 16 tonnes gross weight. In North America, the model was driven by the subsidiary Bering Motors as Bering HD.

Model history

The New Power Truck appeared in June 2004 as a facelift model of the Super Truck. Thus he was still with the drive configurations 4x2, 6x4 and 10x4 as a tractor, chassis and bodies for dump truck available. The drive took further the common-rail injection diesel engine Hyundai Powertec with 440 hp at 1800 rev / min. now with Euro 3 emission standard. In addition to the well-known 6 -speed manual transmission, there was now a 10 - and 16 -speed manual gearbox as well as the well-known 12 -step ZF automatic transmission Astronic. Externally, the design was revised slightly, while the interior remained the same. New was a double-action parking brake and an electronic immobilizer.

In August 2005, improvements were made in the interior with newer, higher-quality rubber flooring and large and flexible solar panels. The sweaty in the summer of fabric and leather seating and bedding were replaced with new leather covers.

In response to the withdrawal of the company subsidiary Kia Motors of commercial vehicles a cheaper version with the Hyundai direct Q -DOC- diesel engine with 290 hp and Euro 3 emission standard has been introduced.

With the introduction of the Hyundai Trago production of all variants in November 2006 has been set with the exception of the 4x2 and 6x4 models 8-16 tons. In 2007, the New Power Truck new headlights, larger air tank for the brake system as well as improved battery holder and cover. Since 2008, the steering wheel and the instrument panel is built from the Trago, and like this since 2011 with digital displays. At the same USB port and 12 V socket in the dashboard has since been standard equipment.