Truck model numbers

Correct, and there’s a 500hp R-series too, but there wasn’t a 500hp 4 series.

You are correct Rob, thats why on my last post it says ’ Engines Including PRT Series’ :sunglasses:

The 500 is the old 480 engine and the 270 is the old 260 engine(now 5 cylinder) :open_mouth:

440 is not used in the UK I believe its made for the Swiss Market? :question:

530 Was never offered on a 16 litre engine only 480 500 580, :slight_smile:

except marine and industrial engines which pump out mega horsepower :open_mouth:

Coffeeholic:

Rob K:
I thought that the Globe XL was exactly the same cab as a normal Globe but with a different interior? I didn’t know the cab was physically bigger and externally it appears to be exactly the same.

The XL is bigger Rob, roof height in the centre of the cab is 1.76 metres above the engine cover in the Globetrotter and 1.93 metres in the XL. In front of the passenger seat roof height is 2.10 metres in the XL and 1.93 metres in the normal Globetrotter.

There are clear differences from the outside as well. The space between the top of the Globetrotter sign and the roof is greater in the XL and the XL has a smaller roof top air deflector than the standard Globetrotter.

And of course the XL has an electric glass roof hatch,whereas the normal Globetrotter only has a small manual hatch :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

How much bigger is the XXL to the XL?

around six inches i think

volvo: Forward control (cabover) Light Medium and Heavy, and Normal control Heavy :sunglasses:

Volvo started exporting forward control trucks around Europe with the F84 folled by the F86 and 88 / 89, the other designation was N86 and N88 etc for conventional (to the yanks anyway) conventional means normal to me not long nosed :stuck_out_tongue: .

Anyway i digress, after the F88 there was the F10 / 12 / 16 these were further labeleld as F1017 F1217 or F1224

The first number signifying the engine size in litres and the second part of the number was the axle weights. so a F1017 had a ten litre engine and was a four wheeler, a F1224 would have a 12 litre engine and was a six wheeler.

Likewise an F717 unit and an F728 8 wheel tipper although it should probably have been called a F730.

After the F7 was discontinued the FL appeared followed by the FH.

Then things got confusing because there were FL10 fitted with 12 litre engines for the tanker market and FH10 with low cabs, high casbs and globetrotter cabs. They even confused things further with the FH Exel with the flat floor.

The FM is a direct replacement for the FL with a 12 litre and could rightly be called fleet motor :stuck_out_tongue: while the FH can be 12 or 16 litres

Basically truck model numbers are built to confuse, like tyre sizes.

I drove a 7.5 tonne F1020 when I was 17, but it was a Fiat :stuck_out_tongue: