Volvo has currenctly road tour going around Finland to promote their new model range, and especially new 60+ tonnes rated I-Shift. They are/were at Tampere this weekend and I went there to testdrive some of their new engines.
Overview of the Volvo Trucks Tampere yard with some of tour trucks.
There were also some rigid vehicles. Here is very short wheelbase Renault Midl… err… Volvo FL with 230 horsepower engine and FM with 480 hp engine, more than enough for 38 tonnes 
That FL seemed to be very interesting among visitors as there were almost all the time someone taking it to test drive.
There were also other version of Renault looking Volvo. This Volvo FE tipper had 320 hp version of unknown engine.
There were also hook lift tipper and couple artics available for a drive, but they didn’t attract as much interest than other vehicles. I didn’t see anyone going on drive with those artics 
Yellow artic had 4x2 axle configuration with 480 hp engine and green artic was either 6x4 or 6x2, but I didn’t look that close that I could say for certain.
From left to right, two 6x4 loggers, apparently 6x4 artic bulker and 6x2 general haulage truck coupled to dolly+semi-trailer. White logger had 13 litre engine, as can be seen from the front grille, with 530 horses and other three trucks have quite self-explanatory engines. I think Volvo is doing maybe little too much promotion for their new 16 litre engine as at least half of the trucks brought here had equipped with it, and only two were 580’s… I would have liked to test 400 or 440 version of 13 litre engine, but there wasn’t any such truck available.
I drove these two trucks, both equipped with I-Shift, and I must say that it was almost unbelievable how smooth gear changes were even when accelerating uphill while loaded to full 60 tonnes GVW. I also must say that that 660 hp engine had unbelievable amount of power and torque. I think that FH12 with 420 horses, which I’m quite familiar with, could have had same speed on top of one particular hill among the route that this truck had on top of it while fully loaded… 
Yellow one had 13 litre engine with 480 horses, which feeled to be more than that. Maybe increased torque could explain that feeling. This vehicle combination has superstructure made for carrying wood chips, peat and other that kind of loads.
After visiting there I was so impressed of FH16 that I had to buy one:
This one has one gear forward (at full revs), one gear backwards (at full revs) and of course neutral position. Steering has also three positions: a bit to left, straight or bit to right. It’s quite pain to drive this as it turns like it had a wheelbase of Volvo VN from other side of the pond. It also eats fuel quite much, I already almost consumed whole tank (one set of batteries) and it couldn’t have been driven more than 100 meter at tops 
