Luxury car business takes delivery of Euro 6 Mercedes Atego26 November 2014

Luxury car business Virginia Water Motor Company has taken delivery of its second Euro 6 Mercedes-Benz Atego transporter, to deliver high-value cars to customers in the UK and Europe.

Supplied by dealer Pentagon Commercials, the Surrey-based operator's latest addition is a 12-tonne Atego 1230 L, with BigSpace high-roofed sleeper cab. Its 7.7-litre OM 936 straight-six engine produces 299bhp, the most powerful of the seven high-torque options for the Euro 6 Atego.

The truck has an enclosed box body with roller shutter doors to both sides and the rear, and a sliding bed, by Freightshield of Newbury.

This allows the body to be rolled off the back of the truck to provide the lowest possible loading angle – essential for low-profile sports cars.

However, the Atego can also take large vehicles. "Most single-car transporters are designed to carry vehicles which are no more than five metres in length – so they can't handle a Rolls Royce Phantom, for example, because that's 6.2 metres long, as well as weighing in at 3.5 tonnes," says Julian Sainsbury, managing director of Virginia Water Motor Co.

"But our Ategos have 7.5-metre decks, which means we can carry a Rolls and still have half a metre to spare at both ends. We also transport a lot of test cars and the extra space is often useful for tyres and other spares."

The company now has 15 Mercedes trucks, including three other 12-tonners, 7.5-tonners, 10-tonners and Actros tractor units.

Author
Laura Cork

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