Mr. Schachner, as the chief developer, you are responsible at Rosenbauer for the engineering of the new PANTHER. How many hours and how many cups of coffee have been invested in its development?
With its numerous functions, the new PANTHER is certainly one of the most complex fire fighting vehicles. In contrast to European municipal vehicles, the PANTHER is based on a chassis specially developed at Rosenbauer for use as an aircraft rescue and fire fighting vehicle. The development of such a comprehensive complete vehicle therefore demands a competent and interdisciplinary development team, which, in the case of this vehicle, consisted of more than 50 development engineers, prototype constructors, and test engineers. Concerning the number of cups of coffee during the development of the new PANTHER, I am certain that the amount of all cups of these 50 people together would completely fill a water tank on the new PANTHER 4×4.