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Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian industrial vehicle manufacturing company based in Turin, Italy, and entirely controlled by CNH Industrial Group. It designs and builds light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, quarry/construction site vehicles, city and intercity buses and special vehicles for applications such as firefighting, off-road missions, the military and civil defence.

The name IVECO first appeared in 1975 after a merger of Italian, French and German brands.

Its production plants are in Europe, Brazil, Russia, Australia, Africa, Argentina and China, and it has approximately 5,000 sales and assistance points in over 160 countries. The worldwide output of the company amounts to around 150,000 commercial vehicles with a turnover of about €10 billion.

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History

Iveco was incorporated on 1 January 1975, with the merger of five different brands: Fiat Veicoli Industriali (with headquarters in Turin, Italy), OM (Brescia, Italy), Lancia Veicoli Speciali (Italy), Unic (France) and Magirus-Deutz (Germany).

Following the merger, the newly founded Iveco began rationalizing its product range, manufacturing plants and sales network, while keeping the original brands. From 1975 to 1979, the Iveco range included 200 basic models and 600 versions spanning from 2.7 tons of GVW for a light vehicle to over 40 tons for heavy vehicles, as well as buses and engines. In 1977 the light to medium-weight Iveco Zeta range was introduced, replacing the twenty-year-old OM Lupetto. Integrating the Fiat-OM range with the Unic and Magirus lineups was completed by 1980. Iveco moved in to work on increasing productivity and engine development.

In 1978 Iveco launched the first product in the range of light vehicles branded Iveco, the Daily. The product was originally conceived as a small industrial vehicle, reliable and structurally sound.

In 1980 Iveco built the first turbo diesel engine for heavy industrial vehicles. In this decade the corporate strategy was heavily oriented towards brand promotion and led to the sponsorship of sports events, such as the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the Davis Cup in 1982, the Jacques Cousteau expeditions in the Amazon basin in 1983 and the Raid Pigafetta, during which the Iveco-Fiat 75 PC 4×4 was first to make a full circle of the globe. Two new divisions were also formed: bus diesel engines and firefighting vehicles.

In 1984 Iveco launched the TurboStar, a heavy on-road vehicle that became a best-seller in Italy and an important player in the European market, selling a total of 50,000 in seven years.

In 1985 Iveco made the first light diesel engine with direct injection.

From 1986, Iveco S.p.A. held a 52% stake in Iveco Ford Truck Ltd, a joint venture (and effectively a merger) with Ford of Europe’s truck division. Ford plants took over production and sales of the major vehicles in the Iveco range and continued production of the Ford Cargo.

In the mid-1980s, Astra, which produces dumpers and construction site/quarry vehicles in Piacenza, became part of Iveco Group.

In 1989 the first diesel engine with EGR to reduce polluting emissions compatible with commercial vehicles was produced and the new Daily launched that same year was fitted with it.

In 1990, the group purchased 60% control of the Spanish industrial company ENASA, which owned the industrial vehicle builder Pegaso.

In the 1990s, the EuroCargo, EuroTech, EuroTrakker and EuroStar vehicles represented a total facelift for the range. The EuroCargo and the EuroTech were named “Truck of the Year” in 1992 and 1993 respectively and, for the first time, this recognition was awarded to the same manufacturer for two years in a row.

In 1991, the English company Seddon Atkinson was purchased and brought its long heritage of special vehicles for the construction and refuse collection industries.

That same year, the first TurboDaily assembly line was inaugurated at the Nanjing Motor Corporation in China.

In 1992, Iveco took over the primary constructor of industrial vehicles in Australia to form Ital, originally called International Trucks Australia. In 2000 it was renamed Iveco Trucks Australia Limited.

In 1995 Iveco signed an agreement with Yuejin Motor Corporation of Nanjing to form the Naveco joint venture for the production of light vehicles and diesel engines. In the meantime, the firefighting vehicles division signed an agreement with Sinopec Group for the assembly of special vehicles with foam extinguishers in China.

In 1996 firefighting activities in Germany were structured under the company Iveco Magirus Brandschutztechnik GmbH.[19] The following year, these activities were boosted by the arrival of an Austrian company, Löhr, which then became Löhr Magirus. The Italian plant in Foggia broke the record of 2.5 million engines produced in 20 years. In 1999, the production of diesel powertrains reached its highest volume of 405,000 units.

In 1998 Cursor 8 was launched, followed the next year by Cursor 10, the first diesel engine with a variable geometry turbine and the first common rail diesel engine for heavy industrial vehicles. The 125th anniversary of the presentation of the first Magirus ladder was celebrated together with the delivery of the five-thousandth Magirus aerial ladder produced since the Second World War.

In 2003 Iveco entirely bought out Irisbus, originally part of a joint venture with Renault.

In 2004 Iveco Motors brand was born, which became an umbrella for the production of engines, and the following year it was incorporated into the newly founded Fiat Powertrain Technologies. At the end of 2004, the agreement was reached between Iveco and the Chinese company Saic (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation).

In 2006 Iveco sponsored the Winter Olympic Games in Turin with a fleet of 1,200 Iveco Irisbus buses. The year after, Iveco became sponsor of the All Blacks, New Zealand’s rugby team.

In 2009 Iveco became the Trucks and Commercial Vehicle Supplier for the Moto GP, together with the historical sponsorship to the Ferrari Racing Team, for which it supplies the vehicles that transport the single-seaters at all the Formula 1 World Championship races.

On 1 January 2011, Fiat Industrial was formed, incorporating CNH, Iveco and FPT Industrial In September of the same year, the Fiat Industrial Village was inaugurated in Turin, a multipurpose centre belonging to Fiat Industrial and created for the sales, assistance and product presentation for the Iveco, New Holland and FPT Industrial brands.

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FPT INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS WITH MERCURY MARINE ON NEW 6.7-LITRE DIESEL ENGINE
Turin, 8 October 2015

Global powertrain innovator FPT Industrial has entered an agreement with marine propulsion supplier Mercury Marine to make the FPT 6.7-litre mechanical fuel injection NEF engine available for sale in global markets.

Branded Mercury Diesel, the 6.7-litre FPT engine is the perfect power solution for single application (22’ to 30’) sterndrive and inboard boats such as passenger ferries, taxi boats and other government applications. It will also appeal to dual applications such as boats with water jet propulsion and displacement trawlers (30’-50’). The reliability of the engine aligns with the durability and easy maintenance of both the FPT Industrial and Mercury Marine diesel offerings.

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Specifications For IVECO-FPT
4-Stroke Cycle Diesel Marine Engines

Click on Links for Model Pages with Spec Sheets, Manuals, etc.

TABLE KEY:
CYL = Cylinder Configuration-Number−Liner: IL = Vertical In-Line, ? = Not Published
−CYL: W = Wet Liners, D = Dry Liners, C = Combo Wet & Dry Liners, P = Parent/Native Bore, S = Sleeved
/CYL: 2 = 2 Valves per Cylinder, 4 = 4 Valves per Cylinder (w/Electronic Fuel Injection)
RATING: COM = Commercial, R = Recreational, WB = Work Boat, PC = Pleasure Craft
RATING: CON = Continuous, INT = Intermittent
RATING: CON, CD, HD, MCD, MD, INT, ID, GS, HO, etc. (See Duty Ratings at end of this table)
ASP: NA = Naturally Aspirated, T = Turbocharged, TA = Turbocharged & Aftercooled
KW = Kilowatts, HP = Horsepower, BHP = Brake Horsepower, MHP = Metric Horsepower, ? = Not Published
@RPM = Power Ratings @ Revolutions Per Minute
YEARS MFR’D: Beginning-Ending, Trailing  –  (Dash) without an Ending Date = Still in Production

ENGINE FAMILY CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-3−?/2 104mm 132mm ?in ?in 3364cc / 3.36L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? NA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??‚
? T ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY/MODEL CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-4−?/2 102mm 120mm ?in ?in 3920cc / 3.92L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? T ? ? ? ? 19??-19??‚
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY/MODEL CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-4−?/4 102mm 120mm ?in ?in 3920cc / 3.92L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY/MODEL CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-4−?/2 104mm 132mm ?in ?in 4485cc / 4.49?L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? NA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??‚
? T ? ? ? ? 19??-19??
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY/MODEL CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-4−?/4 104mm 132mm ?in ?in 4485cc / 4.49?L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY/MODEL CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-6−?/2 102mm 120mm ?in ?in 5880cc / 5.88L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY/MODEL CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
Family/Model IL-6−?/4 102mm 120mm ?in ?in 5880cc / 5.88L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
N67 IL-6−?/2 104mm 132mm ?in ?in 6728cc / 6.7L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
? NA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??‚
? T ? ? ? ? 19??-19??
? TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??

ENGINE FAMILY CYL BORE STROKE BORE STROKE DISPLACEMENT
N67 IL-6−?/4 104mm 132mm ?in ?in 6728cc / 6.7L / ?ci
MODEL/RATING ASP KW HP MHP @RPM YEARS MFR'D
N67 150 TA ? ? ? ? 19??-19??
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