Iveco Daily

"Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever" (superchan7) 10/05/2018 at 14:41 • Filed to: Hong Kong, China, Police, IVECO, Sprinter

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I only realised that Iveco was Italian when I was reading about the new cars for the Hong Kong Police.

After more than a decade ordering 3 generations of MB Sprinters, HKP have changed their supplier with more than a hundred units of Iveco  Daily. Ambulances (managed by Fire Services) are continuing with the Sprinter for now. I do like the front end of the Daily, it looks more stylish than the blunt Sprinter grille and lights.

Honestly, I’m surprised that the Ford Transit didn’t make their list as that was the go-to model in the 1990s and today’s Transit is as versatile as the Sprinter.

The first Dailys have entered service earlier this year. The question is, what happens when a police car has an engine fire?

Typical Patrol and Response unit:

And a Traffic Division unit with an oddly aggressive outfitting of window guards:

InFierority Complex > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 15:03

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Believe it or not there are vestiges of Lancia in Iveco. It’s a amalgation of Fiat, and Lancia’s industrial branches (Heavy trucks and buses were close to a third of Lancia’s total business actually), as well a couple other companies.

Cé hé sin > InFierority Complex 10/05/2018 at 15:09

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Bits of Ford in there too.

Hoccy > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 15:14

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The Iveco Daily is wonderfully utilitarian. I’ve never driven one, but I see them quite often.

Svend > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 15:21

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A lot of the U.K. police vans replaced the glass with polycarbonate windows.

It removes most of the need to metal grille protection while still affording protection to officers inside.   

I quite like the Iveco Daily.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Svend 10/05/2018 at 15:28

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Looks like these guys got the nicer windows.

Svend > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 15:42

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While the side glass is replaced some of the dedicated va ns may still have front protection in the form of a slide down grille .

MultiplaOrgasms > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 15:47

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I happen to work at an IVECO shop. I can safely tell you that the transmissions on these are ridiculously weak, usually grenading after about 30k miles of VAN use. The engines are pretty solid. Very tight turning radius. Insanely cheap looking interiors. 

Klaus Schmoll > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 15:55

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I hate the Iveco Daily with a passion. I had one as a rental for my last moving day. The cab, handling, suspension, steering, pretty much everything about it felt like a Chinese knock-off of a Transit a few model generations ago. That thing had 85K kms on the clock and t he cab still reeked of cheap plastic. The only upside I assume is that it must be considerably cheaper.

MultiplaOrgasms > InFierority Complex 10/05/2018 at 15:59

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Magirus-Deutz > Lancia. 

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/05/2018 at 17:00

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I want all of the work vans from Europe. All of them.

Especially the camper conversions of the Transporter.

InFierority Complex > MultiplaOrgasms 10/05/2018 at 17:04

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I mean, what’s so cool about big, air-cooled diesels? Oh....

duurtlang > MultiplaOrgasms 10/06/2018 at 01:49

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I second that interior remark. I rented one last year. Even had to open the windows to adjust the mirrors.

MultiplaOrgasms > duurtlang 10/06/2018 at 09:36

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The fact that you can get a stripper model is not unusual for vans. I presume it was a current generation model ? Our primary work van is a 2012, the one with the ridiculous front overhang. Dual rear wheels despite 130hp and only 3.5ton of GVWR. THAT has a properly cheap interior. 

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > MultiplaOrgasms 10/09/2018 at 19:24

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What transmission is it, and if that is true why do people still buy it?  Cheap enough to offset a tranny replacement??

MultiplaOrgasms > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 10/10/2018 at 15:53

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6-speed manual, which makes shitty drivers a likely source of the failures. One of our work vans is an older model Daily (2012) with a 5-speed. G enerally speaking our work vehicles never get any maintenance until something major breaks, but the Daily is holding up fairly well. Hasn’t any issues in the two years I’ve been there. Oddly enough the same is true for our 2007 Fiat 500. In fact the Fiat ha s been so reliable we recently bought two new 500S to supplement it. I believe all three of them have the ancient 1.2  FIRE engine.