VW Traton has made a bid for Navistar
Navistar who made diesel engines for Ford Pickups and VW who is cooperating with Ford on Vans and the New Ranger. Now VW's heavy Truck division wants to get into the US market, although Heavy Trucks ...
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Tyler0215 wrote:
Freightliner sells more trucks because fleets buy them for the low price. The poor driver suffers a cheaply built truck, but who cares. I know, I drove one of the cheap things for a year before I retired.
Sadly the same thing is happening with Mack when Volvo bought them. It used to be that you couldn't hardly find a foreign made part on a Mack and they had a long history of reliability. Once Volvo bought them, you started seeing more and more "Made in China" parts on them, and and now their quality is just a poor as Freightliner if not worse. I see the same thing happening to Navistar if VW buys them. Make money at the expense of quality.
