Daewoo Avia’s new medium duty freight truck range – the ‘D-Line’- was formally launched onto the UK market today at the commercial vehicle show in Birmingham.
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The 7.5 tonnes Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) model (D75) launched today has been sold in some European markets since late 2000, but is only now making it onto the UK. It will sell into the largest segment of the freight truck market (7.5 tonnes GVW), which is dominated by Iveco and DAF.
The company is planning to sell around 300 units of the D-Line range in the UK this year and has a network of 27 dealers across the country. A 9 tonne GVW version joins the range later this year.
Development of the D-Line freight truck range was started in 1997 and the truck cab was styled by Italian designers at ‘IDEA’. Hawtal Whiting and Daewoo’s UK Engineering Centre in the UK carried out engineering design work.
Production of the range commenced in October 2000 at a plant near Prague where $US85 million has been invested in new production facilities including press and paint equipment.
Daewoo Avia D-Line trucks are distributed in the UK by Daewoo Truck UK Ltd. Daewoo Avia is the Czech Republic’s largest truck maker and a Czech joint stockholding company with a stake-holding from Daewoo’s heavy industry division.
It is unconnected with Daewoo Motor – a sizeable chunk of whose assets are about to pass into the hands of GM.
