On the road
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• As you would expect, there was precious little between the two in their onroad behaviour: in fact, the main differences could be explained by their different mileages (the Euro-2 vehicle had covered 144,000km compared with the Euro-3 version's 33,000km).
Both had Scania's trusty GRS90014-speed synchromesh box, which has a range change that can't be hurried: both test drivers managed to drop out of gear while rushing the change into low range at exactly the same point on the route. Now that's what we call consistency.
If we had to distinguish between the two it would be by reference to their torque characteristics; the Euro-3 unit had just a little extra at the bottom of the rev range, and was less tolerant of hanging on to a gear past the green band. Once you're used to it, the greener engine encourages a slightly more relaxed mode of driving.