New Navistar Tera Star Class 4/5 midrange truck

[NIsaacs]

Navistar's new truck is to compete with Ford and Dodge in the class 4/5 size. I was all excited until I read the part about the MaxxForce 7 engine. It is a 6. 4 V/8 like Ford used... . dang! Rated 300 hp and 660 tq with Allison 1000 transmission.



Same engine is going in the new Allegro Breeze, high end compact pusher by Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. They are really bragging it up..... 215 hp ad 560 tq.



Nick

 

[HBarlow]

Nick,

I wouldn't want anything with that engine either.

What does it look like? Did you see a photo?

 

[jelag]

The fight between Ford and Navstar was from one providing an engine and the other providing the electronics...

There is a chance that if either one had done the complete engine/electronics package like Cummins there might be something good come out of the process... They were spending so much time pis**ing on each other instead of working out the bugs all kinds of stuff happened... I know, I owned 4 at one time...

Both manufactures are world class and have learned from their mistakes... maybe the combination from Navstar will be trouble free... it could be very dependable with the right engineering... .

Don't count either of them out... .

 

[NIsaacs]

I agree, IHC has used all the Power Strokes in their trucks/buses and seem to have okay luck with them. However I just can't get interested in a V/8 Diesel. The only one I was ever around that seemed ok was the Detroits. The older Cummins, Cat and Mack had poor luck with them.



The little Tera Star looks just like it's bigger brothers only smaller, tilt hood and all. No info on axles, brakes or tire size tho. Class 4 is 16,000 gvw and class 5 is 19,500 gvw. 4x2 only this year with a 4x4 in 2011. Regular cab, extended cab or crew cab.



Nick

 

[HBarlow]

A TDR member who worked for a company that owned a fleet of Navistar V8 diesels in Navistar chassis and Navistar tune posted two or three years ago that his company had constant trouble with the engines in their trucks. He said the Sick. Ohh was as bad in the Navistar chassis as it was in the Furd application.

Navistar/Furd couldn't give me one. The engine used aluminum heads and an insufficient number of head bolts surrounding each cylinder along with other design weaknesses.