GAZon NEXT

The GAZon NEXT is a medium-duty two-axle truck built by the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Serial production began there on 19 September 2014, on a new production line that cost more than 2.3 billion rubles, and the truck is the successor to the GAZ-3307; its four-wheel-drive sibling, sold as the Sadko NEXT, replaced the GAZ-3308 Sadko. It has rear-axle drive and a gross vehicle weight of 8.7 tonnes, and it is powered by a Russian YaMZ diesel engine of about 110 kilowatts and 4.43 litres. GAZ lists more than 300 body variants, including flatbeds, refrigerated vans, garbage trucks, snow-removal machines and vehicles for public authorities, and a lowered GAZon NEXT City version with a deeper loading sill. At the end of 2015 a basic truck cost about 1.4 million rubles.