A thing that I've just found out about.

"not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada) 04/25/2018 at 22:06 • Filed to: TRUCKS

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The DAF XT. I think I’ve found the absolute ugliest truck ever made. Being Dutch, the designers were probably high. Thankfully, I don’t think these were ever mass produced or anything, and remained in obscurity.

The world of European trucks with sticky outy fronts is an interesting one. For the most part, it only seems as if Scandiwegians and the Dutch are really interested in them, and even then they’re for the most part only prevalent as show trucks. Above is an Iveco Strator, which is a Dutch-built version of the Australian Iveco PowerStar, seen below.

The PowerStar can be had in two different “styles” if you will. There’s the European-esque style, like above.

Or you could have a much more American looking front end, like above. Honestly, the PowerStar isn’t a bad looking truck. I think with some modifications, Iveco could do quite well selling these in North America. After all, they already have an established heavy vehicle dealership network in the form of Case and New Holland tractor/construction equipment dealerships.

There’s also the Scania T, which was discontinued by S a few years ago, but remains in the form of a kit that can be applied to a regular old Scania truck, seen below.

The other big Swedish truck maker, Volvo, had a go at making one too in the form of the NH. Despite it’s similarities to the North American VNL series, the two trucks aren’t related to my knowledge any more than the regular FH series (which the NH is based on) is to the VNL.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/25/2018 at 22:25

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That design was a DAFt move on their part.

wafflesnfalafel > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/25/2018 at 22:38

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it looks freightliner-esque to me, but with bigger eyebrows

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/25/2018 at 22:39

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Ugliest truck ever? I think not. Meet the Autocar Xspotter:

not for canada - australian in disguise > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 04/25/2018 at 22:42

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CBE trucks are very weird looking. But, they do at least have a practical reason for existing. I think it has to do with visibility and that sort of thing.

sony1492 > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/25/2018 at 23:31

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I love it, it’s got that look of really old semis with the cabover.

It’s not going to look like the future until we have more of this going on.

deprecated account > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/25/2018 at 23:45

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You forgot the new silverado.

John-Palazzo > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/25/2018 at 23:50

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Iveco could even sell them as RAM or something similar.

thebigbossyboss > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/26/2018 at 01:37

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Ugliest looking truck? Uh.....

At work we got a CAT 776 out of a nearby coal mine. I am the washing boy. I took a wash wand with a cutting tip that rotates and sounds like a fucking helicopter and put it right up to the back of that fucking cab window which was so covered in baked on coal you can’t see out of it. Nothing happened. This wand pumps out at 3000 PSI, and I had it an inch away. We had to sandblast the whole unit after it was dissassembled.

By the time it was done in the wash bay, there was caked on coal, and primer. THAT was an ugly looking truck.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/26/2018 at 01:50

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The DAF XT was an hommage by a company (A Jansen BV) to celibrate both their aniversary and the fact of using Daf trucks for a long time. The design of the XT relates back to the DAF NT from the 80s. (That was also a sticky outy truck) Also, the project was kept secret from DAF, Jansen just ordered very unusual chassis lenghts, and had another company move the cab, and make a hood.

I think they have 2 or 3, and their are a few copies made for other companies. I’d estimate that something like 5 XTs exist. (Although I see them almost daily, as I study in the city where Jansen is located.)

duurtlang > not for canada - australian in disguise 04/26/2018 at 04:36

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It looks like they took a normal truck and moved the cab to the back, creating space for an American style hood. It’s... odd. I hardly ever see non-cabover trucks in real life though, 99.9% is cabover here.