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At the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville,
Ky., Navistar, Inc. hosted its Global Summit and Expo-
sition to showcase the company’s global product offer-
ings and its customer-focused technologies.
“We’ve brought to life our company’s ‘1+2+3’ global
product strategy and what it means for our customers by
leveraging one common chassis, two cab structures and
utilizing one of our three powertrain platforms,” said
Dan Ustian, Navistar Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer. “In addition, from the launch of our
new state-of-the-art LCOE International LoadStar(TM)
to our recent announcements on our natural gas strat-
egy, we have brought to market and continue to intro-
duce the most customer-focused technologies that drive
convenience and lower costs for our customer’s bottom
line.”
“1+2+3” global product strategy
Core to Navistar’s product development innovation is
its “1+2+3” product strategy. To achieve scale, com-
monality and simplicity for the vehicles Navistar builds
all over the world, the company leverages common
platforms across primary vehicle components. Navistar
starts with ‘one’ common chassis architecture. Built on
that chassis is one of ‘two’ core cab architectures – an
aerodynamic cab and a cab-over engine cab. Powering
these vehicles (either cab-over or aerodynamic cab) is
one of three distinct powertrain platforms – its vee en-
gine platform, inline engine platform, and its big bore
engine platform.
“From medium trucks to heavy trucks, from 2.8-litre
engines on up to 15-litre engines, cab-over trucks to ae-
ro-nose trucks, Navistar has global expertise in a com-
prehensive portfolio of products. We have an array of
truck and engine designs to serve the transportation in-
dustry in the geographies we serve today and innovative
technologies for tomorrow as we continue to expand to
emerging markets around the world”, Ustian added.
Navistar also showcased its breadth of natural gas
solutions for the transportation industry. The company
will leverage its existing commercial truck and engine
platforms to offer the broadest portfolio of integrated
products for the natural gas market. It will continue to
offer International DuraStar and WorkStar vocational
trucks with its natural gas-powered MaxxForce DT, de-
veloped in conjunction with Emissions Solutions Incor-
porated (ESI) of McKinney.
To meet the growing demand of the regional haul and
class 7/8 vocational market Navistar will offer the Cum-
mins-Westport ISL-G, in the International TranStar and
WorkStar. Additionally, Navistar will enter into a phase
II developmental agreement with Clean Air Power Ltd.
on the International ProStar, WorkStar and PayStar vo-
cational trucks, powered by a diesel pilot injection LNG
MaxxForce 13-litre engine.
“One of the major obstacles in customer transition to
natural gas has been the lack of a gas-powered range of
engines designed to meet the multiple requirements with-
out compromise,” said Jim Hebe, Navistar Senior Vice
President, North America Sales Operations. “Navistar,
with its extended range of truck engines, is uniquely able
to leverage engine platforms into the industry’s broadest
range of natural gas trucks. When the MaxxForce 13L is
introduced in mid-2013, customers will have a capable
range of natural engines and trucks, from 7.6 litre to 13
litre with hp ranging from 200 to 450.”
Mr. Dan Ustian, Navistar Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
MATS 2012: Technology Watch