Gazelle Ural Next

The Gazelle Ural Next impresses a lot with the bold exterior design, but on the inside, it looks very conventional and simple in its approach. Everything about this cabin looks functional and straightforward, and while it might not impress you with its layout, its practicality is what keeps you engaged.

The Gazelle Ural Next has a driver’s cockpit consisting of a four-spoke steering wheel with audio controls and an instrument console with rounded upper housing behind the steering wheel. The wide-looking centre console is what makes the dashboard look beefy. The middle part of the centre console gets a 1-DIN audio system, rectangular storage cavity, and controls for manual AC arranged vertically. The corners of the dashboard and centre console get round-themed AC vents. The co-passenger side of the cabin gets two gloveboxes too – one open-type and a closed type below the former.

One look at the Gazelle Ural Next is intimidating enough to scare anything else on the road. The tall and butch stance of the Gazelle Ural Next, with its design towards the sides, makes the Gazelle Ural Next a very serious-looking heavy-duty truck that looks like it is built to survive any kind of apocalypse.

At the front, what catches your attention towards the Gazelle Ural Next is its huge and aggressive-looking grille. Shaped in the form of a rectangle, the grille looks bulged from the middle and has both vertical and horizontal slats with ‘Ural’ branding in the middle. The almost flat but tapered passenger vehicle-like front bonnet goes all the way up to the lower edge of the windscreen, which is also inclined and gets a wide roof-mounted visor with auxiliary lights in the middle.

The lower edges of the front profile have slim-looking trapezoidal headlamps neatly integrated into blacked-out panels below the front fenders. These front fenders have a curved and flared design, which flows back to the side profile of the truck. The tough and rugged-looking front bumper of the Gazelle Ural Next gets auxiliary lights and turn indicators on the sides of it.

The side profile of the Gazelle Ural Next looks as butch as the front profile. The unique-looking flared wheel arches flow towards the lower part of the door panels. These door panels have the opening handles placed between the tapering-down window waistline and a sharp curve at the lower part of them. There are a couple of mirrors on the sides – one mounted on the A-pillar and one mounted on the door panel for optimal rear visibility.

With a ladder-on-frame chassis and leaf springs at both ends, the Gazelle Ural Next has a maximum load on the front axle of 6.5 tons and a maximum payload capacity of 13 tons. While the permissible gross vehicle weight is up to 22.5 tons, the gross vehicle weight of the truck is a whopping 38 tons.

The entire range of the Gazelle Ural Next is available with a YaMZ-536 diesel engine, which is offered in three states of tune – 240 bhp, 285 bhp, and 312 bhp. All these engine options are available with two manual transmission choices, which are sourced from YaMZ or ZF. The maximum torque output of this engine goes up to a whopping 1,220 Nm, which makes it one of the most torquey diesel engines available for a heavy-duty truck.

There are only three safety features available in the Gazelle Ural Next – ABS, EBD, and Anti-slip regulation (ASR).

The best part of the Gazelle Ural Next has to be its butch-looking and aggressive design, which is intimidating enough to scare anything on the road. The torquey engine options and a rugged chassis setup further make it a proper heavy-duty workhorse.