The new Volvo FH from Volvo Trucks beat thousands of international products and impressed a panel of design experts to win one of the prestigious If product design awards. The If product design awards recognise outstanding design achievement and have been doing so for more than 60 years. Only the very best designs in 17…… Continue Reading
Volvo used to build an XXL version of the old FH Globetrotter for the Australian market. In a later that big-cab-Volvo was also sold in Norway, and some of them are driving all over Europe. After the new FH has been launched in Australia, there is no sign yet of a new XXL version. I…… Continue Reading
Volvo and Scania are going to fight it out with their upcoming powerful sixteen litre Euro VI engines. Earlier this year, Scania unveiled its new V8 Euro 6 engine range. However, they left out one very important engine in their presentation: the most powerful one, the 730 hp plus variant. It appears now why Scania…… Continue Reading
The Swedish company Troeng Design made a nice striping for the new Volvo FH series. Here is a photo but there is also a Youtube movie that shows the different colours that are possible. Ik like the design very much! … Continue Reading
Well respected Dutch research institute TNO has published a very interesting reportt on the effects of alternative drivelines for trucks. Especially the arrival of the new Euro 6 requirement was brought into perspective with current alternative technologies such as LNG and CNG, as well as hybrids and Dual Fuel. TNO concludes that with Euro 6, diesel…… Continue Reading
Volvo has a new system that is called ‘Dynamic Steering.’ The system works with an electric/hydraulic power steering that gives an even better feeling to the road. After driving the new FH with the IFS system it is hard for me to understand that things could get even better, but at Volvo they are convinced.…… Continue Reading
On Facebook.com I found this photo of the new FH16 with an extra long Globetrotter cab. I think it is a Phothoshop creation but it does rais the question, is ther going to be an extended version for Australia? And if that is the case, will it be on the market in European countries? On the…… Continue Reading
This very low resolution photo i found on the internet but it is good enough to show the new Volvo FH16 in company livery! The truck looks good in these colours, even better than in the introduction colour. The strange thing is that the series production still has to start for as far as I…… Continue Reading
Volvo anounced today that they have taken a share of 45% in Dong Feng, the biggest truck manufactorer in the world. The Chinese Dong Feng company on it self is bigger than Daimler, and this way Volvo passes Daimler as well! Earlier Volvo took over Nissan Diesel and at that time they also had a…… Continue Reading
Now here is another photo of a new Renault truck, spotted in Holland. I found the photo on the Facebook page of Mattijs Gritter. This white fieldtest truck must be the next Premium because it is lower than trucks we have seen before. Take a look at the black one for example, that is higher…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 12 2024
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