COLANI

I got asked to find out about a truck for a friend on
another site that i use,as he had seen one on
these trucks on the autobahn in Germany,so
after putting it on the other site,I thought that
i would share it with you,The first truck was
brought out many years ago,and was in the
truck mags it also went across to the USA
and did a promotion tour, have a look as it
a DESIGN that has beenaround for a long
time but is even now still futuristic ,

Google for Colani

here is a video from one of the trucks on the road
all due to a mate on another site posting it so
THANK YOU VERY MUCH STEVE B

http://www.colani.ch/colli.html

WELL WORTH A LOOK AND LOOK AT THE

SILO ITS PULLING AS WELL:

Aerodynamic it may be but ugly?..looks like a ‘Guppy’ with depression :confused:

I think it was an Italian proto-type brought out years ago. The driver sits in the centre…( crap ) :laughing:

TO some ugly to thers no its not,by the way it is not a ITALIAN

design thank you, and there are about 12-14 running around

working for a liveing,

I’m sure I saw one of these, pulling a TNT trailer in Germany. It was heading south on the A45.

This was several months ago, I forgot all about it untill I saw that article.

I’ve seen that truck, or trucks, several times in Germany. The last time I saw one it was on the A3, northbound, between Franfurt and Koln.

So if your sitting in the middle,you will have to do a blindside reverse everytime you want to go backwards, a lot of thoughts go into that hasnt it,should completly put anybody off getting there class1 when they come on the road :confused: :confused:

The vehicles are equipped with the latest
safety features and the one which came
out first was fitted with a reverseing
camerea system as are the latest, this
goes for the blind spota as well .
don,t knock it till you have tried it.

i am pos i seen a black one in dover dock a long time ago . and yes in the customs . backed on to a bay . i think it was the first time thay seen one as well thay was all over it .

Didn’t Mercedes have something very similar looking as a concept a few years ago?.

I seem to remember it having the wipers arranged in a three pointed star shape across the screen.

Cheers
Neilf

the first truck was based on a Mercedes,
but was not a merdcedes project the
desginer and builder was COLANI
read the linled site,itis a good site,

whilst looking around for a LHD tractor, spotted something at www.avg-trucks.de - won’t be parting with £80K though - can’t get a 65te plate on it :wink: