Kenworth K100E

The Kenworth K100E is the revised version of the K100 cabover tractor, the cab-over-engine heavy truck that Kenworth introduced in 1961 alongside the W900 conventional. Kenworth's company history places the K100E among the 1984 revisions, following the W900B of 1982, and describes the updates as centred on fuel economy, road handling and reliability, with rectangular headlamps as the visible mark. A parts supplier's history of the K100 line, which dates the K100E to 1985, adds that it kept a comparable engine while the exterior changes cut aerodynamic drag, through larger corner radii, a longer cab and a more steeply raked windshield. As demand for Class 8 cabovers fell, the K100E was phased out of North American production after 2002, while Kenworth Australia kept building the line and later released the K200 with a similar look.