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Originally Posted by hilifta
Thanks for that link GC.
No wonder you don't see too many Mack maggies in Oz if they only made just over 100.
I had no idea the number was so low.
Hard to believe that a truck that is so successful in Europe could be such a failure in Oz.
But as a guy said to me at Bathurst last year, you had to be a bit "gay" to like/drive a maggie.
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They might also have been a bit "soft", too. I've only driven one once, but, I found the ride very disconcerting (to say the least). There was an awful lot of cab roll, in the corners, The gearchange was heavy. That was probably a comparative thing as, I was driving a Seddon Atkinson Strato, with the Eaton Twin-Splitter gearbox and the Magnum had a ZF(?) 16speed syncromesh 'box.
Overall, I was only impressed by the power of it. However, it did have a 440Hp engine, compared to the 320 in mine.