Get to Know Kamaz, a Legendary Truck from Russia
The automotive market in Indonesia is also filled with a number of truck and bus chassis brands and pickups. A number of brands that have truck and bus chassis products are well known to the public.
Such as Hino, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Suzuki, UD Trucks, MAN, Golden Dragon, or Scania. How about Kamaz, a truck from Russia?.
Kamaz can actually be purchased for the needs of the Indonesian market, the distributor is PT Pusaka Bumi Tranpsortasi which is also part of the Blue Bird Group.
The name Kamaz itself is actually an acronym for Kamskiy Avtomobilny Zavod, a company that was founded in 1969 in Naberezhnye Cheln, Tartastan region.
Kamaz trucks have been marketed in 80 countries around the world. Kamaz is designed to carry out the function of a truck that can carry heavy loads.
It is not surprising that in the first year of production there was a production target of 150,000 trucks and 250,000 engines.
The massive Kamaz project also made the area around the Kama river one of the fastest industrial and scientific centers in that era.
The Kamaz truck, which diligently participates in the Paris-Dakar rally, has four models. Namely K1 (C), K2 (C2), K3 (C3), and K3 (R) which are still being produced today.
Collaboration with other truck champions is also not prohibited by this manufacturer bearing the Running Horse logo. Seen in the last version of Kamaz, including those sold in Indonesia.
The cabin of the Kamaz truck was taken from an Axor truck owned by a Mercedes-Benz. Meanwhile, there is also a diesel engine variant from the United States, namely Cummins.
In Indonesia alone there are four models available; 65222 series (6×6), 65201 series (8×8), 65115 series (6×4), and 6520 series (6×4).
Specifically for the 65115 series, the engine that is carried is made by Cummins and all gearboxes for the four series are made by ZF from Germany.