Giti Tyres Big Test | Hop, skip and a jump

 
Giti Tyres Big Test
 May 2019     FUSO SHOGUN EURO 6 FV2546 6x4   Story Dave McLeod Photos Gerald Shacklock

Giti Tyres Big Test: Hop, skip and a jump

Okay, so this is the first New Zealand test of FUSO's brand new heavy-duty truck – the Shogun HDT Euro 6. 

Fuso NZ and Daimler Trucks alike see it as a game-changer – THE most important new model in the make's revival, both here and in Japan. 

To me it's best summed up as the story of a hop, Skip and a jump. Okay, so I confess that part of the reason for this is just pure happy coincidence: Doing a test on a truck based just up the road from where I live...

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