quarta-feira, 12 de maio de 2010

KAMAZ

A propósito do maior rally do mundo, o Dakar, o Dmytro traz-nos uma breve história da marca russa de camiões que tem dominado a prova...

Kamaz military truck mounted with Pantsir-S1 guns.

Kamaz (Камский автомобильный завод - Камаз / Kamskiy avtomobilny zavod - Kama Automobile Zavod was Founded in 1969, located in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russian Federation.
KAMAZ assembled their first truck model in February 1976 and now, 33 years later, the heavy duty models are exported to many areas of the world including Eastern Europe, China, the Middle East, and North Africa. Its trucks have won the Dakar Rally a record nine times. Today Kamaz is the largest truck producer in Russia, and the CIS. The factory produces 93600 trucks a year (260 trucks a day). Most of the Kamaz trucks have a V8 engine. The Russian Army uses special reinforced Kamaz models as well.

Kamaz 55111

* History

In 1969 the Central Committee of the CPSU and Ministerial Council of the USSR decided to begin construction of factories for the manufacture of supersized cars in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny.

The construction actually began on December 13, 1969, but the first Kamaz rolled off the main assembly conveyor on February 16, 1976.

In 1987 the line for the manufacture of Oka midget cars (VAZ-1111) was created. The first car rolled out on December 21, 1987.

On June 25, 1990 the production association was transformed into an open joint-stock company.

On April 14, 1993 a fire destroyed the Kamaz engine factory.

Until 2005, Kamaz had a major share in ZMA (Factory of Micro-displacement Cars) that produces the Oka microcar. It was sold to the Severstal group.

Kamaz vehicles have won the truck category of the Dakar Rally a record nine times and in 2010 Dakar Rally 14 out of 14 stages in the truck category were won by Kamaz trucks.


Fire-mounted platform on a chassis


Texto de Dmytro Nazarchyk, 10.º B

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