MAKING A STAND In summer 2007. CM teased a solid
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return from the Volvo FH480, allowin, it to join its contemporaries as a true competitor.
We've finally got the result we've been looking for from an FH. OK, so we ha to wait until Euro-5 to get it. but better late than never.
Yes, the FH enjoyed the benefit of a non-standard trailer on test, but way no doubts whatsoever that the latest SCR Dl 3A diesel can deliver good ecor omy whatever the road, or the load.
From the moment we first drove the new FH480 in 200f we've been asking ourselves: "Do you really need any mar power in a 44-tonner?" It's a superbly understated engine the gets on with the job with the minimum of fuss. And when yo' put an I-Shift auto behind it, you've got a very drivable moto As autos go. I-Shift is right up there among the two-pedal front runners.
We just think it's time to lose some of the options on it and re duce the driver 'fiddle-factor' further. With I-Shift's quick-thinkinl brain, you really don't need an economy/power setting an more. Last, but not least, the Volvo FH is a truck that drivers sti want to get into and the Globetrotter XL cab/Comfort trim corn be is attractive without being OTT. Like we said, the FH13.481 is a 'reward motor', but one the gaffer won't resent or regret.