Eicher Pro 2000 Series Debuts

VE Commercial Vehicles has launched the Eicher Pro 2000 series of light-duty and medium-duty trucks to address the changing needs of operators.

- Bhushan Mhapralkar

Against the background of disappointing CV sales in May 2019, VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV) has launched two new trucks (Pro 2049 and Pro 2095) with a GVW of five-tonnes and 10.7-tonnes respectively. The Pro 2049 and Pro 2095 mark the launch of Pro 2000 series in-turn. Flaunting a new, walk-through safety day cabin measuring 1.8 m in width (on the Pro 2049) and two-meter in width (on the Pro 2095), the trucks hint at a quantum leap at the light and medium duty level at VECV. They also point at a quantum leap at the manufacturing level. The new cabin is made on a new line in VECV’s Pithampur plant and was developed after a long gap of 33 years. Signaling a departure from the legacy cabin that dates back to the first six-tonne truck that was launched in 1986 (in collaboration with Mitsubishi), the new cabin styling conforms to the Pegasus business look of all the Eicher CVs. If the legacy cabin posed certain limitations because of its dimensions (the two-meter width mainly), and despite it being updated from time to time, the new cabin of the Pro 2000 series trucks incorporates a pasted windshield. The modern clear lens projector-style lamps with DRLs add to the modern stance of the cabin whose fit and finish standards are among the best in its class. If the stylish paint job of the day cabin contributes to a modern outlook, the three-piece bumper with fog lamps placed in carved out recesses points at a desire to provide a certain aspiration value to the customer. The front windshield that provides very good visibility is pasted.