MAZ-4370

The MAZ-4370, nicknamed Zubryonok, is a Belarusian medium-duty low-frame cab-over lorry of class N2, built at the Minsk Automobile Plant from 1998 to 2015. It came out of the end of the cartel between the Gorky Automobile Plant and the Moscow ZIL works, when Gorky wanted a low-frame delivery truck for better roads. The first samples were made jointly with Minsk, but the Minsk plant then stopped supplying its MAZ-5336 type cabs to Gorky and put its own family of five-tonne low-frame cab-over trucks into production, based on the German MAN L2000. The first MAZ-4370 left the plant in the summer of 1999. A 4.5-tonne version, the MAZ-4371, was developed from it and is also called Zubryonok, and a tipper, the MAZ-4570, was built on the same base. Its roomier and more comfortable cab and higher payload set it apart from the Russian ZIL-5301 and GAZ-3310 Valdai, and for years it had no direct Russian rival until the KamAZ 4308 arrived in 2007.