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SK comes with options

14th July 1988, Page 8
14th July 1988
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I probably be joined later by a I high-powered variant, the 3233, fitted with the 249kW vee-six diesel.

Weighing 720kg in chargecooled form, the engine is some 260kg lighter than the charge-cooled vee-eight. This means that it would still show saving of approaching 200kg over the existing, naturallyaspirated vee-eight which give: 60kW less power.

Mercedes-Benz remains committed to its sometimes controversial EPS electropneumatic gear-changing system, which will be standard on all models of 215kW and above in all but some export markets The tipper is an exception: in its higher-powered form it will acquire the new MercedesBenz gearbox to manual form.

Mercedes is not talking prices for British models yet, but the German-market trucks will be some 3-4% more expensive than the models they replace. Where PPS becomes standard on previously manualgearbox models, the increase around 6%.