For Scania it almost all comes down to heritage. The V8 diesel is what helped grow their brand to new heights and its what their customers expected them to continue with. They’ve had plenty of chances to switch to an inline-six, but they’ve stuck with their roots and as such, they’ve built quite a following in Europe.
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Scania V8 is more of image and brand. It's a good engine, but in if you want make money, 13l inline 6 is a mush better choice.
V8 have good "mileage", if you haul big loads. (Or you drive in hills)
I'm trucking with 76tn total weight, and I have R580. In last 5 years, there's been only few times when the engine was getting too small.
BTW. We do have bigger axle weights in here, than you have in US.
Typical Yank has no clue what’s going on in the rest of the world.
Wow you missed so much in this video. Don't need to list them the comment section did it for me.
Here in Europe Scania is like THE most fanciest and most expensive truck you can buy. If you're a truck driver and you get to drive Scania… you're a star.
Scania also uses Inline 6 Engines for their lower tier models. Not all are V8, usually only the more higher level Scania R and S models.
Where did you get your information? Haha.
Scania is in someway back in the US. As they are together in a holding with Navistar and 2 other brands. So expect at least interchangeable parts in the upcoming years across these brands. Especially in the drivetrain at first.
Scania does not use dohc they use the old under lay cam
I've been to the Scania assembly plant in Zwolle a few times.
I've been told there that all trucks per generation have interchangable parts, that means all parts work on every single truck without problems.
For example: all models use the same grille, windows, wheels, doors, lights, seats and interior panels. You can take the rear doors from one of their COE firetrucks and the normal doors from the long nosed trucks and you'll see they are exactly the same between the two vastly different vehicles.
The representative also told me that they don't sell their trucks in North-America because they don't want relatively common private owners to fit 'cheaply made' standardized aftermarket mechanical parts to the trucks, making the trucks less reliable in comparison. Not sure how justified that reason is, though. It's just what I've been told.
scania still aint as good as a dirty old 525 or 575 e9 sootin tho
Scania produce the v8 specially for european truckdrivers with a small willy🤣🤣it is like they have to compensate something.. i had a 142h scania, several 143 and a 164..all v8 but no i prefer a daf or man..more comfort
Something I don’t see mention of in the comments is why is the V8 so loved and used.
Torque delivery. Right from the get go. At 1000rpm they have about 75% of their maximum torque. And you don’t have to rev the engine out of its brains to get the power. Which means when doing 90kmh and with the overdrive active. You still have all the torque ready not needing to downshift and still haul it up the hill easily.
Which makes the driving more comfortable as well. Including that deep rumble it’s phenomenal.
Ask truckers here in Sweden they prefer the Scania V8 over Volvo . But the company ovners prefere Volvo because lower maintain costs.
Today it has a lot to do with max payload aswell.. New Eu regulations make for bigger tractror units.. so the all new DAF. witch is part of PACCAR has the biggest standart cab yet in europe. and sure space is one factor. but overall length and maxing out the space for goods is also in account. When it comes to size. Max length in scandinavia now is primary 25 meters. and as it looks now. 34 meters are well on the way to become legal aswell. on specific rutes. and this would be great for rutes going from lower scandinavia (denmark) to and from finland.
I work as an Engineer at Scania for over 10 years now and there are a few small corrections I can give.
The main reason why you really only see Cab over Trucks is not necessarily due to the small roads but due to regulations (which I guess is in the end due to the size of the roads). But the main difference between North America and Europe is that the maximum length of a truck in the US is WITHOUT the cab while in Europe the maximum length is WITH cab. This means that if you have an extended nose like a North American truck it will cost you cargo space in Europe. There are some changes in regulations coming where the length of the truck can be a bit longer if this space is used to increase safety and efficiency so we can see some trucks with small extensions in the near future in Europe (probably especially for EVs).
The second point is that the V8, as you mention, is kind of a prestige product next to the standard line 6 for Scania. Only a small percentage of all trucks sold are actually V8 and the fast majority we sell are line 6 engines.
sorry, bit of a laugh. Aus trucks are huge (triples and quads). US trucks are little delivery vans. all in good humour. we love kennies. Euro trucks don't have the durability required for high horsepower long haul. having said that, Scania is fairly well thought of
It sounds just wonderful….
Scania is owned by VW Group. VW Group through their truck division, Traton SE, already part-owns Navistar, an american truck company.
Scania still have I6 engines. The more HP they need, the more cylinders they need. I’ve never seen an I8 engine, it can only be a V8. So more HP, then V8 suits it.
Less than 10% of all scanias today are v8 engines so thats bullshit
Let say some one in the USA what to buy the new Scania the V8 770S can they buy it?
Because its a Drivers Law..
Mercedes Benz also have V8 engined trucks. BTW…
My dad drives a R580 v8 streamline scania but prefer to the truck hes on now he drove a R730,R620 both v8s he also drove the 143M 450 v8 and 164L 480 he reckons the more weight you put on the back especially the 730hp they pull better and one time he had 50 tons of still on the trailer the 730 just blew the doors off 750 volvos and going from guysvi know that own S770 scania the 730 hasnt a patch on the 770 the hills just disappear