Mark Gredzinski looks into the working life of the Volvo FL7.
Volvo had established itself nicely at the lighter end of the heavyweight truck market with the F7 range. This was a popular model but having been around since the mid-seventies it was due for replacement in the next decade. It would have been easy to produce perhaps a re-skinned F7 cab but instead, Volvo boldly altered the concept to manufacture a brand new lower and broader cab. This became the FL7 line of tractors.
Also, using the same structure, the FL10 range arrived as a more powerful alternative using a 10-litre 318bhp diesel (from the bigger Volvo F10 tractors), which I’ll look at later.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Heritage Commercials.
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