FAW Vehicle Manufacturers SA has started ramping up production of a new medium-weight truck range, dubbed the Tiger, to be introduced into the local and southern African markets next month.Building on its record of firsts this will again mark a moment in its local history when it starts full production of the Tiger range at its Coega-based production plant in Port Elizabeth.Yusheng Zhang, CEO of FAW Vehicle Manufacturers SA, said: "FAW continues its trendsetting path in local truck manufacture. Not only have we managed to produce our FAW trucks at the best quality levels comparable to — if not better than — our FAW parent company in China, but we have been able to do so in a short period considering our plant only became fully operational from July last year."Since our body-building facility was commissioned in January we have also been building tipper bodies from semi-knockdown packs imported from our parent plant in China, and providing finished tipper trucks to our growing pool o...
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