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Giti Tyres Big Test
      FUSO FS2536 Super Low 8x4   Story Brian Cowan Photos Gerald Shacklock

Giti Tyres Big Test - Light 'n' low Fuso 

When global trucking giant Daimler took over the majority ownership of longtime Japanese make FUSO 15 years ago, you could easily have imagined that the longtime brand might soon lose its autonomy….and, thus, its individual identity.

That it could soon become a rebadged Merc, without all the fancy bits….with no trace of FUSO DNA.

But, on the evidence of the latest Shogun to reach our market, that is emphatically not so. 

The 8x4 FS25...

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