Giti Tyres Big Test | A Cummins Comeback

 
Giti Tyres Big Test
 May 2018     Western Star / Cummins X15 engine   Story: Mike Stock - Photos: Gerald Shacklock

Giti Tyres Big Test: A Cummins Comeback

Variety is the spice, as they say....but for kiwi western Star buyers, for a couple of years, there just wasn't any of it.

Well not, at least, when it came to engine choice. In the style of Henry Ford's "you can have it in any color you want...as long as it's black" approach with the Model T, the classic North American owner/driver brand offered any engine you wanted - as long as it was a Detroit.

Now, that's changed - with the addition of the Cummins X15 engine, rated up to 620-...

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