THE NEW TRUCK Kenworth wants to appeal to buyers for whom the traditional narrow cab of the T660 is just too tight at the shoulders and too diffi cult to get back into the sleeper — the seats are necessarily pitched close together. It's also targeting buyers who feel the T700, as a team truck, is just too wide with its attendant diffi culty in seeing down on the passenger side making it more diffi cult in busy traffi c. The T680 is designed to have wide appeal with its styl- ish update of the now-established corporate KW look, the extra accommodation over the T660 without the vastness or the T700 and a comprehensive rethink of the all-new interior.
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In the concept phase, more than 850 drivers were
interviewed and asked to sit in an adjustable cabin space. Engineers varied the cab's width, length, seating position and so on. The ideal was found to be the 83-inch cab that falls squarely between the existing models. With a "driver-fi rst" mentality, Jim Bechtold, Kenworth
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