cissa:
The Next-Gen 13-litre Scania’s will give you unbelievable fuel results.I am a Volvo man myself, but will not buy more Volvos until they release something that can compete on fuel. Seems that the Scania R500 uses around 7-10% less fuel then the Volvo FH 500 and 540 with Dual-Clutch in our work, which is a mix between light and heavy loads in flat and not so flat parts of Norway.
To be fair thats been the case for a long time in my experience.
Back in 2005/6, we had lots of 420FM Volvos which absolutely drank the stuff, circa 6mpg, when i got my new Scania 420 that immediately went up to 7 to 7.5 average without trying.
Yes i know those figures sound dreadful, but that was full size flat out car transporter work often multi drop, with vehicle tareing off at 22 tons and includes engine driven PTO running for many hours every day.
I too would be very interested in how the Japanese motors are holding up, no doubt much sniggering at the back much the same as they did when the bikes and the cars first arrived, but no bugger’s sniggering now.