Giti Tyres Big Test | Quon Convert

 
Giti Tyres Big Test
 August 2018     UD Truck GW 26 460 6x4   Story: Wayne Munro | Photos: Terry Marshall

Giti Tyres Big Test: Quon Convert

Aman goes up the hill a skeptic... and comes back down a believer. Well... maybe not actually a complete convert - but at least more inclined to believe it's possible.

Believe, that is, that the automated manual transmission in his new UD Quon just might be as good as him at managing the gearshifts on steep and windy hills.

Like the big one we encounter on State Highway 16 - the Kaipara Coast Highway, between Helensville and Wellsford, north of Auckland.

When I asked McAllister C...

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