MAN CLA

The MAN CLA, short for Cargo Line Asia, was a medium and heavy-duty truck made in India by MAN Truck and Bus India under the joint venture MAN Force Trucks, which MAN SE ran with the Pune-based Force Motors. Production began in 2007 and trucks were also exported to other Asian countries as complete knocked-down kits. The cab design was derived from the MAN LE series, and the trucks used the MAN D0836 common-rail diesel engine in outputs of 220 to 300 hp with six- and nine-speed ZF manual gearboxes. More than twenty variants were offered, including rigid trucks, tippers and tractors in 4×2 and 6×4 layouts. An EVO series followed in 2016 and a bus chassis in 2018, but MAN announced its exit from India in August 2018 and all CLA manufacturing, sales and exports were called off.