The All New Mack

[Red Horse]

Well my thought was..."Same mistake as Ford".  Ford was a gorilla in vocational market with old Louisville.  HN -80 comes out and they are hawking the "large car" market which has always been dominated by Paccar.  Had they stuck to their roots and put all their money into that market (vocational) they might have survived-vocational to include non sleeper OTR Teamster slip seat operations- regional distribution tractors etc.   Mack has just done the same thing IMO

Make makes this big announcement and it doesn't even look like they had a non high roof sleeper on display.  

I thought the lack of enthusiasm from the dealers -I assume that is the bulk of the attendees -was obvious. I would not have wanted to have been on that stage before such an unenthusiastic group.

Then again-I'm old-and drive a B-61X!

[66dc75]

Yeah Bob The silence when the trucks came out was deafening 

[Mack Technician]

I really like the thing. Maybe my generation of kids who went nuts on Transformers will snatch'em up.

They are staying in trend with light automotive body preferences.

[Mack Technician]

[Mack Technician]

Chopped edges....hard lines

 

[66dc75]

I think it would look pretty much ok without the big plastic dog bone thing on the grille and without the 2 aliens sticking out of the hood. IMHO

[staxx]

I like this one 👍🏁🇺🇸Of coarse get rid of rabbit ears for my application 😊88Mike

[Lmackattack]

I was almost embarrassed for the people on stage speaking right after they drove the trucks out. Dead silence and then the guy is trying to hype up the crowd. Problem was the camera had panned back and half the seats were starting to become vacant. To me that speaks volumes. Volvo is pushing Mack further and Further away from their heritage.

[41180]

This one looks descent

[Back In Black Pulling]

Sorry just don't like like it

[keg1]

Bring back the R model

[Red Horse]

On 9/15/2017 at 5:44 AM, logtruckman said:

This one looks descent

So the Anthem IS a different cab-with a one piece windshield -just like a Volvo-this looks like a CH with a new hood

[Red Horse]

21 minutes ago, keg1 said:

Bring back the R model

Agree-they seem hung up on the idea everyone has to stand up in the cab to get to the "sleeper"!  Well in a vocational truck, I don't need a cab wide enough to accommodate  4 fat gals!  the R cab, original Ford Louisville cab for example, were perfect IMO.  good visibility, enough shoulder room, and after the bump out cab back, enough leg room.  Then again I'm talking "vocational".!

[41180]

22 minutes ago, Red Horse said:

So the Anthem IS a different cab-with a one piece windshield -just like a Volvo-this looks like a CH with a new hood

This is a daycab anthem. The anthem has a mack CH cab different hood new interior and sleepers not a Volvo cab. One piece windshields have been available for years in the granites, CH, and visions,pinnacles ,titans . our new w900 has a one piece windshield. 

[41180]

2 hours ago, Back In Black Pulling said:

Sorry just don't like like it

I'm not crazy about it . its like anything you get used to it . I remember when the cascadia first came out I said to myself no one is gonna buy that ugly thing !! 6 months later seemed like every other truck was a cascadia !! Certainly mack won't sell as many of these freightliner does but but if your a company that buys the pinnacle cxu you'll probably buy this . I still wonder what the set forward axle truck that they were showing bits of in the mack teaser videos for this truck is . the first video they released showed a complete axle forward sleeper truck with different headlights than the chu has now hood looked like a rd hood . that got my hopes up but then they dropped this thing .. And no axle forward new model . at least they still make the rawhide chu .

[Mackdaddy2030]

A friend of mine told me they are coming out with a new CHU also. Idk when, but all he could do was confirm it and they can't talk about it. 

[MackMann85]

Were you guys there?  You really couldnt be more wrong, the crowd went nuts and you could feel the energy.  Everyone was jumping around when they came out and you could barely see things.  I had to wait in line for 5 minutes to get inside one to see it myself.  great event

if we were quiet it was out of respect to the speakers and empty seats were all the salesmen in the bathroom from the free drinks in between speeched!

Dont like the mirrors, dont the click the box, they arent mandatory.  This is the new aero highway tractor.  The CHU still lives on with the classic look and so does the vocational granite.  This replaces neither.  They all get the nice new upgraded interior.

I think owner operaters who want aerodynamics and a tougher look that than some other aero tractors out there will really like it.  I thought the storage in the sleeper may be the best out there.  Almost all fleets wont accept anythig other than a stand up cab these days, that is why Mack hit on it so hard.  Much needed.

Jeeesh you guys can be negative sometimes!

[Brian71583]

19 hours ago, logtruckman said:

I'm not crazy about it . its like anything you get used to it . I remember when the cascadia first came out I said to myself no one is gonna buy that ugly thing !! 6 months later seemed like every other truck was a cascadia !! Certainly mack won't sell as many of these freightliner does but but if your a company that buys the pinnacle cxu you'll probably buy this . I still wonder what the set forward axle truck that they were showing bits of in the mack teaser videos for this truck is . the first video they released showed a complete axle forward sleeper truck with different headlights than the chu has now hood looked like a rd hood . that got my hopes up but then they dropped this thing .. And no axle forward new model . at least they still make the rawhide chu .

See the other post about the new Mack in the fall for more pics and details from me on page 4. The CHU is getting the new grille.  Same shape headlights but internals are changing to LED.  Truck is also getting the new interior and the new sleeper box.  That could have been some of the stuff in the teaser.

 

The comments about the crowd enthusiasm I think that may have been a production company error.  I noticed it too but I also noticed by the annoying clapping you kept hearing that the only Mic was the one set up on the presenter.  There was no ambient mic.  Made it sound very quiet in the room.

 

Lastly, people keep hating on the hood mirrors.  Personally I like them but I do believe they are optional.

[Vladislav]

The truck doesn't look bad on my mind.

Personally I better like the style of the original CH when it was introduced. But you should make some changes from time to time. Just because the times change.

And I like the mirrors. Finally I see when hood-mounted ones are integrated into the overall style. They seem very useful driving in traffic but I hate optional tripodes etc attached to a hood of a classic truck.

Funny thing 2 or 3 local friends emailed me with pics of new Mack. Later I found out Russian journalists shared the news of its presentation. A funny fact on my mind to wright about a make of truck just a few people in Russia are familiar with even Mack brand existance.

[bbigrig]

It's what we have been waiting for. I've got my name in to demo upon arrival north of the 100th meridian

Looking forward to getting rid of a Volvo 780.

[Red Horse]

Well as for the rabbit ear mirrors, if you can tolerate the lost aerodynamics from those, from a safety perspective, I think stand alone fender mount directional signals should be mandatory.  Or am I the only one who thinks turn signals get lost in the headlight glare when they are included in same "pod".  I've been told pedestal mounted turn signals are gone because of impact on fuel economy!

Like what?  .005 MPG?  Friend of mine is a Ford dealer and on all his class 6/7 650/750's in the Bluediamond era he would order the pedestal turn signals which were a low cost option.  Not anymore on the Avon Lake built Fords.

[ws721]

WOW!!!   I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.   I sure don't anything there to be proud to drive around in 

[JTFormula]

1 hour ago, bbigrig said:

It's what we have been waiting for. I've got my name in to demo upon arrival north of the 100th meridian

Looking forward to getting rid of a Volvo 780.

I watched the reveal myself and I thought "huh, just a vision with a bad facelift". All of this hype for this? But when I had seen this picture and thought that's not really bad.  I hate the hood mirrors and the grill was a little off putting at first and the headlights are not really doing it for me but the more I look at it, it grows on me.  I think its just something new we are not use to. Mack is not going to make the R models or Superliners, or B Models any more. That's a fact. They went for a new more modern look to set themselves apart from the rest of the over the road trucks. Its a bit harder and tougher looking than the rest of the Areo trucks out there. It may just get them some extra sales... or not. I'm withholding final decision until I see one in person.

[Swishy]

RE: New Look Mack

me thinx they should sack the design engineer n send him back to Sweden

n let him keep design n fir the POS 'V'Bus mob

WotSezU?

cya

§wishy

 

[Lmackattack]

Thats exactly what I was thinking. All this hype for months and then the drive out the same old truck with a "cool" new hood on it. This Anthem thing is not a new truck its a new hood with a new cab interior .  I hope it sells better and its just old bitter me that does not like change but Sadly I think anyone with eyes in their head sees this mutt truck as what it is "UGLY". I really do feel its Just another foolish push by Volvo to mistakenly move Mack further away from their dwindling loyal customer base. Its odd too because Volvo seams to invest heavily into Mack production plants yet they drop the ball in the styling dept.