Scania v8 730hp

Guess I was up to a bad start when I got a cold the first night.
That it was released in -95 is no excuse. This is an -04 and it feels like I'm back to 1984. Even tractors was more modern in 1995 than this ####.
But anyway, why would the truck makers care. It's not the drivers that got the money, it's the big companies and as long as they buy it for high overprices why care.

 

Yesterday I got to drive a new Renault magnum with the Volvo engine, I found it very underpowered and the owner says it's a dog on deisel, in fact he has 7 of them and they are all thirsty as hell. It was 540 hp but pulled like a 350, it could be the egr that's ruining these engines, I had older volvos, they too weren't the best to pull but were a #### sight better than these new ones, they were alot better on deisel too, These trucks ain't even getting 7 mpg, waste of time!

 

I'm parked in Germany beside an American army registered scania r340, it's pulling an American trailer, the trailer is narrow compared to ours here, is the American width limit narrower than ours? normally a trailer is over an inch wider than the tractor but this one is 2 inches narrower on each side, the scania looks weird with the American trailer! Also parked just over the parking area is the new mercedes actros, it looks fantastic !

 

Ex f1 driver Alan Mcnish drives the r730 [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2PJ8kHrcFw&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/ame]

 

Well what's the width of it 96' or 102'?

 

I think he meant the US army trailer Scania Man was talking about.

They are also very short trailers, I don't understand why they don't use some full size european trailer.

 

I ment to write trailer. Apologies for not specifying.