Pegaso Troner
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The Pegaso Troner was the last and most powerful range of Pegaso
Pegaso
Pegaso was a Spanish make of trucks, omnibuses, tractors, armored vehicles, and, for a while, sports cars. The parent company, Enasa, was created in 1946 and based in the old Hispano-Suiza factory, under the direction of the renowned automotive engineer Wifredo Ricart...

 trucks.

It made its debut in the 1987 Barcelona Motor Show, as a 4x2 articulated truck tractor
Semi-trailer truck
A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or articulated truck or articulated lorry, is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine , and a semi-trailer A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated truck...

 featuring a 12-litre 360 hp Pegaso engine and a new cab, available in four different sizes, developed jointly with Dutch DAF Trucks
DAF Trucks
DAF Trucks NV is a Dutch truck manufacturing company and a division of PACCAR. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assemblies are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium...

 and personalized to Pegaso look by Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automobile designer responsible equally for a stable of supercars and several of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today...

.

Engine power was later raised to 370 and 400 hp, while the range expanded to 4x2, 6x2 and 8x2 rigid and 4x2 and 6x4 articulated models, with a special 6x2 conversion for the British market also available.

The Troner was Enasa
Enasa
ENASA was a Spanish vehicle manufacturing company, incorporated in 1946 having bought the automotive assets of the Spanish arm of Hispano-Suiza. It produced trucks, buses and military armored vehicles under the Pegaso and, for a short while, Sava brands. Enasa belonged to the state-owned INI...

's last effort to keep pace with the European truck market leaders, but this did not prevent the company from losing market share and money and eventually to be taken over by the Iveco
Iveco
Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicle Corporation, originally an alliance of European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Fiat , Unic and Magirus. Iveco is now an Italian truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin...

group. Nevertheless Troners were successful in Spain and got appreciable sales figures in the Benelux, UK and France.

Troner production ended in July 1993.
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