CarBrandLogos archive · Iveco · 1991

IvecoEuroCargo

One medium-duty range built to replace two, and still in production decades later.

Photo: Jean Housen · CC BY-SA 4.0

The story

A defining chapter in Iveco history.

Explore the ideas, engineering and context that shaped the Iveco EuroCargo, then continue into its specifications and place in the marque's lineage.

Origins

The EuroCargo arrived in 1991 to replace two separate lines — Iveco's own Zeta and the Cargo inherited from the Iveco Ford venture — with a single medium-duty range covering roughly six to eighteen tonnes. It was named International Truck of the Year on launch, in part for a low cab-forward layout that made a day of multi-drop delivery work markedly less punishing for the driver.

IVECO Eurocargo-II 75E17 Pritschenwagen · O. Nordsieck (Einverständnis des Fotografen zur Veröffentlichung unter GNU-Lizenz liegt per E-Mail vor) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Design and engineering

Three decades later it is still being built, updated through successive generations for each new emissions standard and now offered with natural gas as well as diesel. Assembled mainly in Brescia, it is the truck most European operators picture when they think of a supermarket delivery lorry, a municipal tipper or a fire appliance chassis.

Eddie Stobart BT62YNL · Alan Sansbury from Liverpool, England · CC BY 2.0

At a glance