Quester in search of new markets
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THIS STRIKING new tractor unit could be mistaken for the latest Euro-6 model but is in fact a Euro-3. The Quester comes from UD Trucks, Volvo Group's Japanese business. UD Trucks is gaining strategic importance for Volvo in the mature European truck market and Quester is designed to take the group into developing new markets such as south-east Asia, China and India. Its emphasis is on robustness, simplicity and low
cost. Although the 10.8-litre engine, rated at 370hp, 390hp or 420hp, is based on that used by Volvo and Renault, it has unit injectors not common-rail. I-Shift is also considered a step too far, so Quester has nineor 12-speed manual boxes. There is no airsuspension for the drive axle; this is steel multileaf.
Production is starting in Thailand, initially for the Thai market, and then export markets in the region. After that, production will spread to China and India.