Navistar's new flagship truck, the LoneStar, is a adaptable beatnik mansion: Monsoon stereo arrangement with 11 speakers, subwoofer and amp, a behemothic board with hinge chairs, board floors, 42-inch mattress and a agglomeration of added accidental animal and apparatus comforts, like Bluetooth. Update: Our greasemonkey brothers at Jalopnik beatific over about a billion pictures of this Riche Rich big rig.
The truck's aerodynamic architecture makes carriage all of that applesauce beneath earth-unfriendly, extenuative up to eight admirable a year in ammunition costs. This is all acceptable stuff, we accept just one catechism (besides price, aback it's not mentioned): What appreciative trucker would get abaft the caster of this thing?
GAME-CHANGING TRUCK COMBINES STYLE, FUNCTIONALITY; INTERNATIONAL LONESTAR DEBUTS AT CHICAGO AUTO SHOWNew Flagship Artefact Blends Arresting Design, Ammunition Economy, Comfort
CHICAGO, Feb. 7, 2008 - The deep-throated barrage of a big bore agent engine captivated in a glassy chrome barbecue arise the accession today of the world's a lot of avant-garde big-rig truck. Navistar International Corp. (Other OTC: NAVZ) apparent its International® brand's new flagship product, the visually beauteous and technologically avant-garde LoneStar, at the Chicago Auto Show.
With a striking, aerodynamic actualization and advance anatomic innovations central and out, the International® LoneStar® is the aftereffect of all-encompassing chump analysis and automotive-inspired architecture - a new barter that changes the bold for today's trucking professional. It creates a new class of Class 8 trucks alleged "Advanced Classic," in which technology and avant-garde administration assemble with next-generation aerodynamic architecture to bear above ammunition efficiency. LoneStar aswell sets a college accepted for abundance - through bigger ergonomics, an industry-leading suspension, avant-garde electronics and a quiet cab.
"This barter is clashing annihilation on the alley today," said Daniel C. Ustian, Navistar chairman, admiral and CEO. "The International LoneStar closes the gap amid workstyle and affairs for active professionals, accumulation aiguille abundance with affecting appeal. It is the artefact of Navistar's ability of adamant innovatation, and embodies the spirit both of today's active professionals and the dynamic, transforming activity central our company."
"Our barter told us they wish three things: A barter that makes a account about the driver, abundance on the alley whether alive or resting, and the aggregate of ammunition abridgement and servicability that helps them accomplish added money," said Dee Kapur, president, Navistar Barter Group. "LoneStar delivers on all accounts. Now, drivers don't accept to compromise. They can accept it all - looks, efficiency, comfort, functionality and productivity."
- MORE -
International LoneStar Launched / Page 2
LoneStar is a advance artefact that resulted from a advance process. The barter progressed anon from algebraic and adobe models to assembly - after any development prototypes.
"Our engineering team, which has assorted backgrounds in the automotive, aerospace and trucking industries, acquainted assured that we could advance this barter after spending months in prototyping," said Tom Baughman, carnality admiral and accepted manager, Navistar Heavy Barter Car Center. "We knew we had a acceptable truck, and we capital to accomplish it accessible to our barter as anon as it could be ready."
LoneStar appearance avant-garde ride and handling, class-leading calmness and the adequate and anatomic Suite autogenous that rivals abounding offices and active rooms.
Automotive-style appearance congenital into the LoneStar include:
• Accepted ABS
• Roll stability
• Traction control
• Bluetooth Integration for hands-free buzz use
• Leather-wrapped council wheel
• Automotive-style birr and gauges with rosewood or titanium trim
• 50-degree caster cut
LoneStar's autogenous is as distinctive, avant-garde and applied as its skin. After alert to hundreds of active professionals, the architecture aggregation developed an autogenous that appearance a akin of abundance and functionality about activate in recreational vehicles.
Interior highlights include:
• Wood attic in the sleeper cab
• Sofa-bed architecture with aback pillows
• Hinge chairs
• Closed "airline" cabinets for best storage
• Monsoon stereo arrangement with 11 speakers, sub-woofer and amplifier
• Pull-down bed with 42-inch exceptional mattress
• Workspaces to bung in laptop computers and plan in a desk-like setting
• Mini refrigerator
"In an boilerplate week, a barter disciplinarian may absorb 120 hours in his or her barter - driving, eating, sleeping, active a business, even absorbing friends," said David Allendorph, arch artist for Navistar's Barter Group. "We advised the LoneStar's ambiance to be both awful anatomic and comfortable. No added truck's autogenous delivers the style, abundance and acumen we accept congenital into the LoneStar."
Fuel ability is added important for barter owners. LoneStar is projected to be 5 percent to 15 percent added ammunition able than archetypal trucks, equating to an anniversary accumulation of $3,000 to $8,000.
"The aerodynamic architecture of LoneStar's hood, windshield and ancillary skirts will save them absolute money," Allendorph said. "Truck pros can accept a unique, customizable barter that will accolade them at the pump. When you are spending $1,000 or added with anniversary fill-up, you absolutely acknowledge the ammunition ability of the LoneStar."
The distictive grille and angled awning were aggressive by International's D-Series trucks, which helped transform America's cross-country busline in the aboriginal 20th Century. A adequate and adapted archetype of that truck, the DMAXX, aswell is on affectation at the International booth.
The LoneStar will be accessible for adjustment from about 900 banker locations in North America alpha in April 2008. Assembly of the trucks will activate in August 2008 at Navistar's bulb in Chatham, Ontario, Canada and will be delivered to barter in abatement 2008.
In accession to the LoneStar and DMAXX, added Navistar cars at the Chicago Auto Show cover the International MaxxPro™, Navistar's mine-resistant aggressive car that helps assure the U.S. aggressive from roadside bombs; a aggressive adaptation of the International MXT that includes Raytheon's avant-garde medium-range air-to-air missile (SL-AMRAAM) launcher; and the noncombatant International MXT, an acute auto barter launched at the Chicago Auto Show in 2006 that can booty about eight bags and acme out at $135,000.
[Jalopnik, Gizmag]
Chicago Auto Show: 2009 International LoneStar, Biggest Unveil of the Show Chicago Auto Show: 2009 International LoneStar, Biggest Unveil of the Show Chicago Auto Show: 2009 International LoneStar, Bi
There's a funny affair about auto shows; from the outside, they arise to be all amaze and… Apprehend added Read more
No hay comentarios :