jeroen00001
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http://www.etftrucks.eu/
this webpage looks pretty english to me..!!
this webpage looks pretty english to me..!!
As I like to deal in facts I thought I would email the company and ask them if they were for real or just a concept
Here is the reply I got.
"ETF Trucks are a reality!
After 8.5 tears of development we are now building our f irst three trucks for shipment to Brazil".
Best regards,
Eddy de Jongh
CEO
ETF European Truck Factory GmbH
Still haven't heard back. ETF seem to interact with the world primarily through social media (facebook, blogs, &c) but my question on their facebook page seems to have mysteriously disappeared, and comments are disabled on all their youtube videos. So, I tried emailing them again, with a cc to biglorryblog (which has, in the past, given lavish coverage of photoshopped ETF trucks).For what it's worth, I asked "Have you built anything yet? Started manufacturing? Got any orders?" - by email and on their facebook page on 01 December. No reply to either, 3 months later. No photos of actual trucks, no evidence of tooling or production facilities. Just some photoshop.
Everything is a knockoff of something, all products are based on work done by previous inventors or engineers, or combinations of designs or features. Very little real innovation or fresh ideas. We all use items every day that owe their creation to Archimedes or Galileo, what the hell. The Japanese copied US and European automakers but nobody today says they build knockoffs. The Chinese people I deal with are talented, educated, aggressive, and for the most part pretty honest. If you want the cheapest copy of something they can make it for you, but if you're willing to pay for quality and specify a legal product, again that's exactly what they'll deliver. Take a look at CAT and Deere Artics for one thing, anybody want to try to convince me they didn't use a lot of ideas taken from VOLVO? We do need some oversight to cut down on counterfeit products, but lets be fair, if they make a good machine why bash them for it? Cheers.