Mercedes-Benz Actros (2011)

The Mercedes-Benz Actros of 2011, sold by the maker as the New Actros and commonly called the Actros 4, is a heavy long-distance truck series of the Mercedes-Benz brand built by Daimler Truck. It succeeded the Actros of 1996 and was a largely new development, designed from the start purely as a long-haul truck, and it was the first Mercedes-Benz truck series with in-line engines in place of V engines, new cab designs and a purpose-built long-distance frame with a wider track. Daimler announced in April 2011 that sales would begin on 1 July 2011, the official presentation followed in Brussels in June 2011, and a European jury of journalists named it Truck of the Year 2012. It was offered with in-line six-cylinder common-rail engines of 7.7, 10.7, 12.8 and 15.6 litres in 18 output steps and with eleven cab variants, and it was the first part of a strategy that was later joined by the Antos and Arocs. Extensive updates in 2018 led to the model usually called the Actros 5.