The history of Iveco, the last thirty years of a Turin manufacturer
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XNUMX years after launch new Daily (1989) and complete renewal of the assortment with EuroCargo (Truck 1992 and then in 2016 with a new version introduced in 2015) EuroTech (Truck of the Year 1993) EuroTrakker ed EuroStar, Iveco acquired control of 60% of Enasa, a historic industrial vehicle manufacturer Pegasus.
Iveco Daily, evergreen van
While on heavy we will have different gears, among the vansIveco Daily will be the main character of the last thirty years, which we are going to talk about, collecting impressive palm trees.
Van of the Year 2000 (Daily City Truck Range), Best Light Truck of 2007, Award for Best Light Commercial Vehicle 2007, Best Light Truck of 2008 in Van Fleet World Honors, Green Van of the Year 2009 in the alternative fuel category at the Fleet Van Awards (natural gas version). And then how A new day: LCV of the Year 2012 e Van of the Year 2015.
Nineties: the final stop
1990, however, was also the year of the beginning The Gulf War that brutally ended those “wonderful eighties” as defined by Gianni Agnelli, or the years of "Fiat overwhelming power" as defined by the newspapers of the day.
-40% of sales that year were the end of the season of active growth of the Groupruled by the triumvirate Umberto Agnelli, Carlo De Benedetti and Cesare Romiti.
The internationalization of the Iveco brand continues
In 1991, while the first assembly line TurboDaily (in the factories of Nanjing Motor Corporation) was also included Seddon Atkinson, an English company with a long tradition in the field of special construction equipment and waste collection.
The following year, following the takeover of Australia's main industrial vehicle manufacturer, the Turin-based company founded Ital, Iveco International Trucks Australia, L 'Iveco Powerstar sarà "Australian Truck of 1998".
"Glorious" firefighting sector
Again in China, an agreement with the Yuejin Motor Corporation of Nanjing resulted in a joint venture. Navness which will produce passenger cars and diesel engines. The firefighting equipment division has signed an agreement with Sinopec Group for the assembly of special equipment with foam fire extinguishers.
Firefighting measures in Europe were structured in Germany in 1995 with the founding Iveco Magirus Brandschutztechnik GmbH, which the following year with the arrival of the Austrian company Löhr on the market received the name Lear Magirus.
Three years later, the delivery of a trolley with a ladder was celebrated. Magirus n. 5.000 have been produced since the Second World War and the 125th year of activity.
Success engines
In 1998 was Cursor 8 and in 99th year Cursor 10, the first variable geometry turbine diesel engine for heavy industrial vehicles. At the Italian plant in Foggia, 2,5 million engines were produced in 20 years, the total production of diesel engines reached 405 thousand units: this is a record figure.
In order to unite the activities related to the production of engines, a few years later, in 2004, the brand was born. Iveco Motorslater included in Fiat Powertrain Technologies.
XNUMX-e
In 2002, to replace Eurostar and Eurotech in the range from 18 to 44 tons, he arrived Iveco stralisInternational Truck of the Year 2003 and 2013 (in Hi). In 2004, the novelty was presented in Sicily. Iveco Trucks dedicated to the construction site career.
In 2003, Iveco fully acquired Iris busclosing the joint venture with Renault industrial vehicles started in 1999. This year Sergio Marchionne he joined the Group's Board of Directors and was appointed CEO in 2004.
Sports sponsorship
The second half of the 2006s has been revitalized by a series of sports sponsorships, in XNUMX. Olympic Games in Turin, in 2007 All Blacks, New Zealand rugby team.
In 2009 Moto-GPAlso Truck and commercial vehicle supplier. AIn addition, Iveco will supply single-seater trucks for all World Championship races. 1 formula.
Modern times. Arrival of Fiat Industrial and CNH Industrial
We come in our days. January 1, 2011 was born Fiat Industrial which merges CNH, Iveco and FPT Industrial. In 2016 XP beamfollowed by a natural gas version, Stralis N.P..
Today Iveco inside CNH Industrial NV «a global leader in the capital goods sector that, through its business, develops, manufactures and markets agricultural and earthmoving equipment, trucks, commercial vehicles, buses and special vehicles, as well as a wide range of powertrain applications.».
Iveco's production facilities are currently located in Europe, China, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Africa and is present with its own commercial structures in more than Countries 160... Vehicles driven by natural gas CNG and LNG to make the Italian manufacturer the leading European manufacturer in the sector. A few weeks ago, a new flagship was launched. Iveco S-shaped: another lap, another race. The story continues.
