The truck industry’s most demanding test – the 1,000 Point Test – is carried out every year by the European motoring trade press with the aim of comparing the market’s range of long-haul trucks with each other. The test lasts four days and covers everything from fuel consumption and engine performance to safety and in-cab comfort. The results of the 2007 test have just been released and
“We are proud of course.” says Claes Nilsson, President Europe Division of Volvo Trucks, adding, “The fact that we won for the second consecutive year shows that the Volvo FH is perhaps the market’s best long-haul truck.”
The 1,000 Point Test is arranged every year by German truck magazine ‘Lastauto Omnibus’ together with commercial vehicle journalists from other European countries. The vehicles participating in the test are similarly specified, driven over the same test route with all measurements and comparisons meticulously supervised.
The current Volvo FH model has been sold in Europe since 2005. The winning vehicle was equipped with I-Shift, Volvo’s celebrated automated gear changing system, and a 400hp 13-litre engine that already meets the Euro 5 exhaust requirements that do not come into force until 2009.
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YOUR mental image of a Volvo driver probably involves hats on parcel shelves, bowling club whites and retirement home car parks.
Then there’s pulling out of junctions without looking, hogging fast lanes and taking corners slower than a fully loaded supermarket trolley. But you’re locked onto the old image of a bloody Volvo driver. The Swedes have another idea.
The next time you see a Volvo advert on TV it will be full of athletic twenty-somethings coming home from an invigorating day’s adventuring in the alps. They will be packed five up in a wagon but smiling comfortably because there’s plenty of room for them and their gear.
The background tune will have hooked you by now, despite its irritating nursery rhyme refrain. On the slow ride down the mountain coy glances start to be exchanged between the men and women. Mmmm … this sexy car-load look like they’re heading for a steamy menage a cinque in an apres-adventure hot tub.
These are the sort of people Volvo calls “modern lifers” and we’ve been sentenced to them. They’re a group of friends rather than Nan and Pop Volvo, or mum, dad and the kids. They’re strong, confident doers who are tolerant and social. They’re also impossibly healthy, good looking and smug. They’re the new breed of bloody Volvo drivers and I hate them already.
Marketing manager Matt Braid explained the global repositioning: “The traditional family structure - as we all know - is changing day by day,” he said this week. “We thought targeting modern families could potentially be limiting our segment. So we’ve revised our target group to ‘modern lifers’, which focuses on a consumer’s attitude to life rather than a particular life stage they’ve gone through.”
Volvo’s third generation XC70, the archetypal big Swedish wagon, kicks off the new campaign. It was launched this week in the Kevin Rudd heartland of Queensland and just like our new PM, Volvo is ready to ride the environmental wave.
“We think there’s a distinct movement from the 1980s and early 90s ‘me, me, me’ - excess for its own sake and luxury - to the power of ‘we’, as far as peace, the environment, and caring for the earth,” added Braid. “We see that becoming more prevalent among our target group.” The tagline for the campaign is “Life is better lived together”.
I ended up a little unsure about exactly how this bigger version of a Volvo staple is greener and more gregarious. Even Volvo describes the new XC70 as more macho than before, with an aggressive face, jutting angular surfaces and blingy bits of chrome. A projecting front skid plate, picked out in silver, supposedly makes the car safer for pedestrians when you run into them, although it looks as though it would cut them off at the shins.
Despite these tweaks, the XC70 is still obviously a Volvo wagon with a square profile, plastic cladding at skirt level and high-rise tail-lights which could guide incoming aircraft.
A radical theory of modern living arrangements hasn’t stopped Volvo making it friendly to the trad family, with thoughtful touches like built-in child seat boosters and a practical load area. There are additional high-tech features, too, like a collision warning system and hill descent control for slowly picking your way down an offroad gradient when there’s a full load of broad-minded young hikers aboard.
For the first time, Volvo offers the XC70 with diesel - 2.4-litre five-cylinder - and a six-cylinder petrol in the shape of the 3.2-litre unit which debuted recently in the S80 luxury sedan.
Volvo Australia managing director Alan Desselss said the XC70 was heartland territory for the brand where it could shine without being overshadowed by the Germans. They, of course, are all about “me”.
Volvo Australia sales have bounced back over the past few years and are up 25 per cent on 2006, year-to-date. The XC70 will contribute around 900 sales to a full-year total exceeding 5000 in 2008. “The XC70 will be the growth we’re looking for in 2008,” Desselss said.
The star of the range will be a single low-slung V70 model stripped of its offroad airs and aimed at performance buyers. Powered by a 210kW twin-turbo 3.0-litre six-cylinder driving all four wheels, it arrives early next year priced around $70,000.
Unlike Jaguar and Land Rover, Ford’s Swedish brand is not for sale and CEO Alan Mulally recently granted it increased autonomy. He must be a “we” sorta guy.
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Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has announced a tentative traffic plan to operate Volvo bus service from eight points in the city to the international airport at Devanahalli and invited suggestions from the public about the plan.
The corporation will begin services with 40 specially designed Volvo buses from Electronic City, J.P. Nagar VI Phase, Mysore Road Terminal (Bapujinagar), Whitefield, Jeevan Bima Nagar, Koramangala, HAL Airport and Peenya II Stage, according to an official release.
BMTC has urged the government to provide a dedicated bus corridor along the proposed expressway as well as on National Highway 7 between Hebbal and the airport. The proposed service, BMTC said, would offer fast, safe, comfortable and unhindered travel between the airport and the city. Frequency of services would be decided after getting details about the arrival and departure of flights from Bangalore International Airport Ltd., and the fares too would be decided thereupon.
The corporation will provide a nearest common pick-up point wherever a cluster of star hotels exist. It is also in the process of developing major traffic hubs and check-in facilities at Shanthinagar and Hebbal in consultation with BIAL.
Proposed routes
Seven buses will be deployed from Electronic City to the airport, with stops at Bommanahalli, Silk Board, Agara, Marathalli, K.R. Puram railway station, Hebbal and Yelahanka, covering a distance of 65 km with a frequency of 55 minutes.
From J.P. Nagar VI Phase, five buses at a frequency of 55 minutes, covering a distance of 47 km, will be operated with stops at Jayanagar IV Block, Lalbagh, corporation, Cauvery Bhavan, Vidhana Soudha, High Grounds, Guttahalli, Mekhri Circle, Hebbal and Yelahanka to the airport.
Five buses will be operated from Mysore Road Terminal with stops at Vijayanagar, Rajajinagar I Block, Yeshwanthpur bus station, Malleswaram bus station, Sadashivanagar Circle, Hebbal and Yelahanka to the airport at a frequency of 55 minutes covering 49.5 km.
From Whitefield, BMTC will deploy five buses at a frequency of 55 minutes to cover 50 km to airport, with stops at ITPL, Mahadevapura, K.R. Puram railway station, B. Channasandra, Kalyanagar, Hebbal and Yelahanka.
The shortest distance to be covered is from Jeevan Bima Nagar (44 km), with stops at Indiranagar, Ulsoor, M.G. Road, Balekundri Circle, J.C. Nagar, Mekhri Circle, Hebbal and Yelahanka with five buses at a frequency of 55 minutes.
Five buses will ply from Koramangala, covering a distance of 48 km with a frequency of 55 minutes, to airport with stops at Dairy Circle, Shanthinagar bus station, Richmond Circle, J.C. Nagar, R.T. Nagar, CBI office, Hebbal and Yelahanka.
From Peenya II Stage, three buses will be operated, at a frequency of 70 minutes covering a distance of 44.2 km, to airport with stops at Jalahalli Cross, Goraguntepalya, Alisda, Air Force Cross, BEL Circle, Hebbal and Yelahanka.
Five buses will be deployed from HAL Airport to the new airport at a frequency of 55 minutes, covering 46 km with stops at HAL, Suranjan Das Road, Old Madras Road, MEG Centre, Coles Park, St. John’s Road, J.C. Nagar, Mekhri Circle, Hebbal and Yelahanka.
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More good news on connectivity to the new airport. The Bangalore Metropolitan Road Transport Corporation (BMTC) has announced details on the Volvo services to the much-awaited Bangalore International Airport at Devanahalli.
As many as 40 Volvo buses, known as Vajras, will ply on eight different routes that will connect the airport directly from the time it is going to be inaugurated on March 30, 2008.
Vajras that have proved to be safe, fast and comfortable will ensure unhindered travel between the city and BIAL, vouches BMTC. The corporation has also mooted to the state government to provide a dedicated bus corridor along the proposed expressway and on the NH - 7, between Hebbal and BIAL.
From the moment of the inauguration, 40 brand new buses will provide services from Indiranagar, White Field, Koramangala, J P Nagar, Jayanagar, Malleswaram, Sadashivnagar, Electronic city, M G Road and Peenya 2nd stage. All buses will stop at Hebbal which is the last station, and from there BMTC will ply special services to the airport. Fares for the same have however not been decided upon.
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1997 was the year Volvo introduced the crossover segment; this meant jacking up the chassis of a V70 and slapping an XC70 badge on its butt.
Subaru had the Outback, but the idea of all-wheel drive wagons hadn’t yet spread across the industry, which had started to get busy with selling big SUVs for people to go shopping in.
There are more crossover rivals now, but the XC70 has proved such a success for Volvo that it recently came close to killing the donor car here in Australia.
Volvo has relented, and the new V70 will arrive in the first quarter of 2008 for the estimated 150 buyers per year who want it. But a longer queue; about 800 a year; is expected for the new XC70, which was launched last week and goes on sale in January.
For them, the XC70 delivers a bit more of the same. It’s bigger and longer, has slightly more room and a modernised look. But it’s not so different that you can’t tell what it is straight away – and from quite a distance.
The most noticeable styling change is around the tail, where it has faint echoes of the funky C30. This has been achieved by giving the cargo area a subtly hexagonal-shaped tailgate, and then moving part of the light cluster onto it, allowing for much larger lenses that accentuate the shape of the brand’s now-signature sculpted haunches; and are bound to be a safety bonus, too.
The interior scores another key Volvo cue, the floating console, which does a lot to reduce the bulkiness of the previous cabin layout.
The dash has an organic shape that sweeps up over the instrument binnacle, and a nice touch is the wood inlay that is not only the real deal, but looks and feels like it; rather than being masked in thick gloss lacquer.
The old five-pot petrol engine has been evicted from under the bonnet, with the new tenants being a choice between either a 175kW/320Nm 3.0-litre inline six-cylinder petrol or a revised 2.4-litre five-cylinder turbodiesel that develops 138kW and 400Nm. Both engines are mated to a six-speed automatic with simulated manual mode.
The petrol variant costs $58,950 and the diesel $2000 more in standard trim, with ’standard’ meaning all the essentials plus leather upholstery, driver’s seat power adjustment, 17” alloys (but temporary spare) dual zone climate control airconditioning, premium audio and retractable mirrors.
The safety list includes airbags everywhere, dynamic stability and traction control with anti-skid brakes and a variety of braking assistance program; including one that starts braking automatically if it thinks the situation requires it, hill descent control, rear park assist, whiplash protection headrests, and two-stage booster cushions in the rear seat that not only raise kids to the level where they can see more easily but also bring their little noggins closer to the protection of the extended side curtain airbag.
The LE trim level adds $6000 to the price, for which you get 18” alloys, self-opening tailgate, sunroof, front parking alert, power adjustment on the passenger seat, CD stacker and rain-sensing wipers.
Another $6000 gets the optional technology pack, which Volvo says adds $9500 worth of nav system, active bi-zenon headlights with washers, blind spot alert and auto-dimming rear vision mirror with compass.
On the road
There’s no question that the diesel engine is the winner when it comes to hauling around the XC70’s hefty bulk, which adds to about two tonnes by the time you add a couple of healthy adults and some luggage.
The petrol was an adequate performer for urban cruising and undemanding stints on the open road, but with effort of the higher revs needed; about 2000 more for peak power and 1000 for peak torque; it’s best to let this one simply take life at a sedate and sensible pace.
The diesel’s extra muscle and the fact that it comes on tap earlier means it’s the one to go for if you want to get into the joy of driving. Although it sounds unrefined at idle, once you tap the pedal enough to get the turbo involved it rewards you with great response and a rather satisfying meaty gurgle.
However the handling is doughy in hard corners, the steering is very dignified about when it answers input and steep slopes demanded some help from the transmission’s manual mode.
But apart from a touch of bouncing because of the long wheel travel that serves the vehicle well offroad, ride quality is excellent, whether you’re on good or bad bitumen, dirt, gravel or facing off against a pothole run.
So on a run up North Queensland’s version of the great ocean road, the trek from Cairns through the Daintree and Cape Tribulation to Cooktown, which claims one write-off a week plus countless breakdowns; the XC70 was a great companion.
This is the kind of travelling that can leave you exhausted at the end, but the car insulated us from any of the unpleasantries under the wheels and we arrived as fresh as we started.
It’s never going to climb up the sides of mountains. But then nor are most of the offoaders that can rock-crawl but never get outside the city. The XC70 is for those who want a wagon with some SUV ability, but don’t need an SUV; and are intelligent enough to acknowledge that fact.
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Volvo is launching a major direct marketing campaign to promote its revamped 2007/08 range, and the reasoning behind the improvements.
The six-month campaign will target 30,000 Volvo customers who are already familiar with the range and are eager to see new developments.
The mailer, created by EHS Brann Cirencester, is presented in the style of an A4 Designer’s Pad, and shows the logic and reasoning behind the revisions that designers have made to the entire range.
The changes are brought to life with a combination of hand-drawn sketches and photography.
Anita Fox, head of marketing communications at Volvo Car UK, comments: “We wanted to showcase the numerous changes made to the entire line up of Volvo models to our existing customers and encourage them to revisit the range.
“We were particularly keen to share the insight of our designers with our customer base, so they could get a sense of the quality and attention to detail that goes into every enhancement. The Designer’s Pad concept allowed us to do this in a highly sophisticated and dynamic way.”
Alison Hamer, managing director of EHS Brann Cirencester, adds/ “The new Volvo campaign uses direct marketing in a truly creative and effective way by involving the customer in the development process of the car. By engaging the target audience through a designer’s workbook the campaign will re-affirm the innovative status of Volvo and its full range.”
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Ford Motor Co., after abandoning plans to sell Volvo Car Corp., now wants to move the brand more upmarket in a bid to boost sales and profits. But it is a risky strategy that is making Volvo executives in Sweden jittery because it could alienate traditional buyers.
Last month, the day after Ford said it would keep Volvo — at least for now — the chief of Ford’s European operations flew to Sweden to deliver a tough-love message to the folks in Gothenberg.
Inside the ultramodern Volvohallen, some 300 of Volvo’s top managers sat uneasily in blond wooden chairs as Lewis Booth ran through a few slides detailing the company’s third-quarter financial results. Once again, Volvo had failed to turn a profit.
His message was simple and direct: Volvo must become competitive on costs and revenues and it must do it by becoming a legitimate premium alternative to rivals like Lexus, BMW and Mercedes-Benz — not by reinventing Volvo, but by intensifying its focus on safety, simplicity and Scandinavian design.
“It’s not a change of direction, it’s just building on what they’ve got,” Booth, chairman of Volvo Cars and president of Ford’s European division, told The Detroit News. “We’re looking to take customers from everybody. We’re not going to achieve it by mimicking our competitors. We’re going to achieve it by being what Volvo is — a strong Swedish brand with the values of that society.”
Some executives in Sweden worry that by trying to transform Volvo from a near-premium brand into a full-fledged luxury marque Ford will damage Volvo’s pristine image, according to Ford and Volvo sources. But they also know that Volvo could only survive as part of a larger, global car company like Ford. Volvo CEO Frederick Arp declined to be interviewed for this story.
At the same time, there is a growing realization in Dearborn that Ford, poised to sell Jaguar and Land Rover, needs a global luxury brand to truly compete on the world stage.
CEO Alan Mulally pushed to sell Volvo to raise much-needed cash for Ford’s North American restructuring and narrow his international management team’s focus to fixing Ford itself. But some advisers urged against unloading what is widely seen as one of the most respected brands in the automobile industry today.
Ford has also become increasingly dependent on Volvo’s safety technology and engineering prowess, with Volvo platforms now providing the foundation for flagship vehicles like the new Lincoln MKS sedan.
Also, Wall Street analysts say the timing for a sale is bad. Credit is tight and private equity interest in megadeals is ebbing, evident in the trouble Ford has had unloading its British luxury brands. And Ford’s new contract with the United Auto Workers has eased financial pressure on the automaker.
Near-premium to premium
Still, Mulally is not making the sort of long-term commitment to keeping Volvo that he has made to Ford’s Japanese affiliate, Mazda Motor Corp. He has agreed that keeping Volvo makes sense for the foreseeable future — but only if Volvo is willing to evolve.
“They were kind of defining themselves as near-premium and they had this great thing about safety,” Mulally said in an interview. “But with what they’ve done — what we’ve done with them on the product strategy and their portfolio — now they are premium.”
At a dinner during the Los Angles Auto Show, he added: “They have a premium product. It’s really important that we continue to improve their productivity and reduce their cost structure. We can help with that.”
Some in Sweden fear that Ford wants to run Volvo from Dearborn, a concern that surfaced when Ford bought Volvo in 1999 and has been a continuing problem.
Ford paid $6.45 billion for the brand and has poured billions more into it since then. Volvo has transformed from a brand known for safe-but-ugly cars into one of the most stylish vehicle manufacturers in the world. Volvos are still among the safest cars on the road, but the boxy, utilitarian designs of the past have been replaced by a distinctive Scandinavian style that puts form on an equal footing with function.
Peter Horbury, the British designer responsible for creating Volvo’s new look, says the decision to move it upmarket makes sense. He says Ford has an opportunity with Volvo to create an entirely new type of luxury brand.
‘Turning Swedish’
“BMWs and Mercedes are often sold by peer pressure,” Horbury said. “Volvo is bought by somebody who is self-confident enough to make their own decision. We can build on that. Volvo can be the luxury brand of the future because, in many ways, the world is turning Swedish.”
Care for the family, concern for the environment and a design aesthetic that values simplicity over all else are core characteristics of Swedish culture. These same qualities are becoming increasingly important to consumers all over the world, Horbury said, adding that Volvo already embodies these qualities to varying degrees.
Booth says Volvo has to take these traits to the next level.
“They’re very strong on the environment and they’re very strong on safety. But a lot of other people are aspiring to be where Volvo is, so we can’t just have Volvo relying on its historical strengths,” he said. “There’s got to be a bit more. A lot of it is in the subtle details.”
For Volvo, luxury will be defined by better fit and finish, the use of more premium materials inside the cockpit, more active safety innovations like collision warning and avoidance system that debuted in the new S80 last year and a renewed commitment to green technologies.
Last year, Ford opened a new hybrid engineering center in Gothenburg and charged Volvo with leading the development of hybrid technology for Europe. It also invested $1 billion to improve Volvo’s fleet fuel economy and tailpipe emissions. There is some hope that Volvo could become a leader in diesel-electric hybrids.
Plan for profitability
Product experts like Jim Hall of 2953 Analytics in Birmingham say Ford’s strategy for Volvo makes sense.
“You can’t sell on safety alone anymore,” he said. “By using that hook of Scandinavian design, they can do luxury in a way that no one else does. But they have to be Volvo — very luxurious Volvos, not luxury cars with a Volvo badge.”
By pushing Volvo upmarket, Ford hopes to raise the average transaction price on Volvo vehicles and widen its margins to generate more revenue. It also hopes to attract new customers to a brand that has never broken the 500,000-unit-a-year barrier.
At the same time, Ford wants to help Volvo reduce its costs by more closely integrating Volvo’s product development and procurement operations with Ford’s.
Future Volvos will rely more heavily on components from Ford’s global parts bin, but only in areas the customer cannot see or feel. That will allow Volvo to reduce costs by taking advantage of Ford’s own economies of scale.
Parts that directly affect the customer experience will be enhanced to make them even more distinctive. Booth said Ford wants to allow the Swedes to put their own stamp on every product.
The challenge in all of this, Booth acknowledges, is to bring new customers to Volvo without alienating its core constituency.
A class by itself
Volvo means different things to customers in different markets. To Swedes, it is family transportation, filling the same niche that the Blue Oval occupies in the United States. For Britons, Volvos are country cars. In this country, where every car makes a statement, a Volvo is seen as a smart, less-luxurious alternative to more expensive German cars.
Whatever their reason for purchasing a Volvo, the brand’s customers are intensely loyal — as are its dealers. But that loyalty was tested by Ford’s decision to rethink its ownership of the brand.
“We were extremely concerned about the relationship,” said David Stein, who owns two Volvo franchises in Austin, Tex. “We’re feeling much better now. We’re ready to move forward. Ford’s made some commitments and the timing is perfect.”
Even the Swedes — although they may be concerned that Volvo’s fate is being decided in Dearborn — seem relieved, if still jittery, ranking executives said.
“When a company loses money, people should be nervous,” Booth said. “We’ve got to do this very carefully, very sensitively. And it’s got to be Volvo.”
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Drive fuel-efficiently and you can save both money and the environment. This is Volvo’s most important message at this year’s European Road Transport Show that takes place at the RAI in Amsterdam from October 26th to November 3rd. In focus is “Fuelwatch†– a holistic concept that, correctly utilised, gives customers considerably lower fuel costs as well as the opportunity to take active responsibility for the environment.Keeping pace with increasingly stringent environmental demands and tougher competition on the market, a clean environment and good fuel economy are becoming increasingly important to Volvo’s customers. Consequently, Volvo is focusing firmly on these issues at this year’s show. In the spotlight is “Fuelwatchâ€, a concept that uses a blend of both hardware and software to take a holistic grasp of the customer’s fuel consumption.At the Volvo “Fuelwatch†stand, visitors have the opportunity to see how it is possible to make significant fuel savings through a planned and structured method. One important aspect is that the big gains come as a result of a number of interacting measures from specifying the truck correctly when placing the order - so it is optimally suited to its intended operations - to ensuring that drivers are properly trained to drive in the most economical way possible.
However “Fuelwatch†is not only of interest to new-truck customers as existing trucks can be upgraded to become more fuel-efficient by altering the transmission software.
Volvo is ready for the fuels of the future
Volvo has long been preparing itself for a future of reduced oil dependency and increased demand on the use of renewable fuels. The company wants to demonstrate its amassed expertise and is taking the opportunity at the show to initiate a discussion on fuels of the future.
At the show, a truck running on biogas and biodiesel represents Volvo’s next-generation approach to the issue of forthcoming fuels. The company’s unique hybrid technology for heavy trucks will be shown in the form of a prototype engine.
The message from Volvo is that the company has the technical expertise and the competence needed to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles and technology for renewable fuels. What Volvo now wants is for politicians to make up their minds as to which fuels they wish to focus on for the future, and how they aim to pursue their development in practice as the gradual transfer from today’s conventional fuels is initiated.
Trucks and construction equipment under one roof
Volvo is the only vehicle manufacturer in the world to have both trucks and construction equipment in its product range and is thus able to offer almost everything a construction operator might want. In addition to the customer offer itself, this type of shared product development at component level also frees up additional resources for the development of high-tech and efficient next-generation components. With a mini-excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment on display, Volvo aims to demonstrate its broad customer offer.
The flagship among Volvo’s trucks is naturally on display
With “Fuelwatch†as its central theme at this year’s exhibition, Volvo is showing a concept that favours both good fuel efficiency and responsibility for the environment.
I-Shift is an automated transmission that has become a huge sales success since it was first introduced for long-haul trucks back in 2001. Four years later I-Shift was launched for construction operations with equal success, and today it is something that the entire industry is talking about. About 60 percent of Volvo trucks sold today are equipped with I-Shift, an important ingredient in the optimised driveline.
VEB+ (Volvo Engine Brake) is another product that is grabbing considerable attention at this year’s show. The new more powerful version is an unsurpassed engine brake that is suitable for both long haulage and tough construction work. VEB+ is an example of Volvo’s leading position within engine technology for heavy trucks.
With its massive 660hp, the Volvo FH16 is Volvo’s flagship and naturally on display. It has the best torque on the market and forms a particularly powerful and appreciated truck for heavy commercial operations.
The Volvo FL and Volvo FE, which can both be ordered with factory-fitted bodies, are two light trucks that are being shown at this year’s show. They were introduced in May 2006 and are optimised for regional and local distribution, and both are also well suited for urban distribution applications.
Vehicles on display
Volvo FL 4×2 R (with box body)
Volvo FE 4×2 T (fuel optimised)
Volvo FE 6×2 R
Volvo FM 8×4 R (with hook lift)
Volvo FM 4×2 T (fuel optimised)
Volvo FH 6×2 T (80 years truck)
Volvo FH 4×2 T (fuel optimised)
Volvo FH16 8×4 (heavy haulage)
Volvo VT880 (for heavy haulage in North America)
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