When it comes to the youth car in Jinhua, Zhejiang, everyone will definitely think of Neoplan, as a luxury long-distance bus that once stood out and stood alone, it left a deep impression on people. In addition to buses, when it comes to other industries of youth, everyone may think of cars that can run with water, or youth lotus cars.
But do you know, young people have also been involved in the truck business, the heavy trucks created even sold to the ceiling price of domestic heavy trucks at that time, it just so happened that recently the author met a young heavy truck that retreated to the second line, then this article will take this car as the title, and then take everyone to reminisce about the youth Manka.
Let's start with a background for the young Manka:
With the booming business of Neoplan in China, the word "MAN technology" began to be popular in the commercial vehicle industry, because at that time, the high-end series of Neoplan buses used the German MAN D2866 engine, and in the early 21st century, when the domestic commercial diesel engine was generally only 200 horses, the Manji 410 horsepower can be said to be a mythical existence.
At that time, Pang Youth was in a moment of vigor, and when he saw that the sales of Neoplan with Manpower technology were so hot, he came up with the idea of introducing German Man heavy trucks. After some negotiations, in August 2006, Youth Automobile Group and German MAN Company formally signed an agreement to assemble and produce German MAN F2000 heavy trucks in China, so Youth Manka was born.
At the beginning of the introduction, the price of Youngman was as high as more than 600,000 yuan, 90% of the body parts came from the original factory of German Man, and the quality process also followed the standards of German Man. However, in the two years after the listing, the sales of this car are very dismal, and in the era of the new Dawei generally 250,000, the price of the young Manka can buy close to three new Dawei, and in its price, a little money can be more cost-effective imported heavy trucks, and the embarrassment of its own status.
Later, young Manka adjusted the market strategy, in the tractor began to use Weichai engine, Eaton transmission, Steyr axle and other domestic parts, only the cab and some accessories still have the shadow of German Man, like the previous full set of MAN technology models to the second type chassis, such as fire trucks, wrecker supply, which has almost reached the period when Young Man is about to fall.
The young Man in the back abandoned the original F2000 cab and began to use Hubei Qixing products, of course, these cars are basically not expected to be sold. In this period, Pang Qingnian's heart is completely in the car, such as spending 140 million US dollars with GM and other manufacturers to compete for Saab, but also trying to save the youth lotus, in the end to no avail, the performance of youth buses is also declining, constantly fading out of people's vision. Later, Pang Youth released a car that boiled water with the brand of Youth Manka, well, and then you all know, and then it was cold.
Now that we have learned the history of the youth, let's take a look at the real car.
The car photographed in the picture is the author encountered in a container factory in Chengdu, this car is in November 2010, Youth Automobile delivered to Chengdu Changyun one of 15 vehicles, model JNP42250FD19, the vehicle length of 7.245 meters, width of 2.49 meters, height of 3.77 meters, belongs to a medium-term product, in order to adapt to the market, these cars in the configuration made some "compromises".
The cab is the F2000 model we are familiar with, using a high-roof cab, because the configuration is much lower, so this cab does not have a porthole design. The grille is the classic shape of German MAN, this grille shape continues from F2000 Evolution to TGA heavy truck, after the youth domestic assembly, the user can choose man's lion logo and youth YOUNGMAN logo.
The shape of the side is basically the same as that of the Delong F2000, if there is a difference, the air filter intake of the young Mann is imitation of German Man, which is one circle smaller than the Delong. But because of this, young Man's accessories are exceptionally easy to find, roughly the same as Delong, with 15 small mirrors in the rearview mirror and 200 headlights... These cars can also have a stable source of accessories after the youth cools down.
The two headlights on the bumper show the high compatibility of this car accessory, in the early youth Manka, the lights are halogen German Hella lamps, and the german Man 2000 heavy truck on the same style. Then the bumper of this car has been replaced by a later domestic part, and on the young man card of the early imported CKD, the position of the license plate frame can be turned down, revealing a hidden trailer hook, and in the later stage, this design was canceled. (Original flop)
Airbag shock absorption cab, at that time the Liberation J6 and Tianlong were still four springs, most cars only have two springs, this is how comfortable it is.
A major feature of the F2000 cab, there is a water pipe behind the cab, which is used to add glass water, and the capacity is huge, this design is available on the youth manka and Delong.
Let's go up to the cab to see, in fact, whether it is early or late, the young Manka has not changed much in the cab, has been adhering to the style of the German ManF2000 Evolution, the MAN and lion logo in the car are everywhere, and even the relays in the insurance box are provided by BOSCH.
The steering wheel is two-frame, the German MAN LOGO in the middle is the horn switch, and the dashboard is directly the MANF2000.
There are only so many buttons, half of which are empty, which can be used to control the horn, the rear light, the differential lock between the shafts and the differential lock between the wheels, and the decorative board uses a peach wood pattern, but this texture is far worse than the first batch of pure CKD young mankas.
The picture above is a pure new youth manka, the first batch, the instrument panel is a plastic material, the button area has an additional cruise control, and the air conditioning system adopts Delphi's control module.
The rear sleeper had a widened shape at that time, and with a safety guardrail, perhaps the owner felt that it was too obstructive so it was demolished, and the upper sleeper was also demolished, and it was no longer needed after retreating to the second line.
Then look at the chassis, the wheelbase of this 3500+ 1350 is longer than the usual tractor, the power chain of this car is a combination of Weichai + Fast + Steyr wheel reduction, and the original CKD model is manji D2866 + ZF16S + MAN 13T wheel bridge reduction.
The engine is Weichai's WP10.336, a very classic generation model, 336 horsepower, emission standard for the national three, all said in the exhaust cylinder at the moment of black smoke, is the time when the national three car really power.
The rear axle is very typical of the Steyr wheel bridge head, the whole car is a 10/11 steel plate combination mode, at that time it used a variable section girder, this or added a layer later, proper heavy-duty configuration, according to the current words is "composite version".
Close-up of the rear axle, round rear differential bag, upper double chamber, drum brake, rear axle also with transverse stabilizer bar, longitudinal stabilizer bar using a V-shaped structure.
This man power chain young Manka real photo, the rear axle is from the German MAN wheel side deceleration bridge, and with 315/70R22.5 tires, the rear axle 5 high-strength lightweight leaf springs, such a configuration was very rare at that time.
Let's look at a more interesting place, that is, the exhaust pipe of this car, which is a very common muffler on the old German Mann car, which is also printed with MAN's LOGO, and it is estimated that it is not wanted to do supporting Weichai engines separately, and it is directly used as a Muffler. (There was no post-processing system at that time, and it was not necessary to have different post-treatment for different engines like now, and then the shape of each house was different)
In fact, the chassis of young Mann is very interesting, it has always retained a style of The European system at that time, whether it is from the girder, or the foot suspension mechanism or the attachment, it has not changed, and even like the spare tire frame has also been retained in the later models, in the current concept, this is just a thing that occupies the fuel tank.
The youth car of that year, the strength is not bad at all, commercial vehicles have Neoplan and German Mann two giants as pillars, but in terms of trucks is more of an assembly nature, and did not think about using this platform too much to develop innovation, coupled with the Saab scramble and Lotus car behind, so that Pang Youth's mind almost all transferred to the passenger car industry, resulting in young Manka can only be in this European 90s eliminated products to sell a single.
As the old saying goes, if you don't learn, you will be backward, backward will be beaten, in today's serious homogenization of domestic heavy trucks, but also face the encirclement and suppression from foreign brands, if there is no momentum, there is no point to look after the family, it is really impossible.
Text: Niu Yilin