On May 6 I visited the WSI XXL Model and Truck Show in Ede, the Netherlands. WSI is a manufacturer of highly-detailed diecast truck models, and a large number of sublime and shiny 1/1 scale mastodons was also on display at the event.
So, today’s cars don’t come in real colors anymore? Then enjoy the upcoming rainbow rides, presented in three articles.
First of the tractors is this 2012 Scania R500 with a 15.6 liter V8.
2008 Scania conventional model by Vlastuin, also with the 500 hp 15.6 liter V8 engine. Since October 2005 Scania doesn’t offer their factory conventional T-model anymore, but the Dutch Vlastuin company still builds them.
2015 Volvo FH16 with a 550 hp 16.1 liter inline-6 engine. It has the classic late-seventies Volvo F-series Globetrotter color scheme, from white to dark blue.
1996 Scania R143 Streamline 8×2 truck with a roll-off system. We’ve seen a Scania in these colors before.
1977 Scania LBS 141 6×2 tractor.
141, so with a 14 liter V8.
2016 DAF XF 460, powered by the DAF/PACCAR 12.9 liter inline-6 engine, known as the MX-13 (PACCAR’s biggest own engine).
2015 Scania R520 with a 16.4 liter V8. I’m sure it sounds great. To my ears anyway.
2013 DAF XF 460. As many other tractors shown in this article it has a liftable and steerable pusher axle with single wheels.
2015 Volvo FH with Volvo’s 12.8 liter inline-6 engine. The cab has a low roof, quite rare in this segment these days. Obviously the tractor’s owner hauls manure for a living.
2015 DAF XF 510.
What a splendid and classy color scheme on this 2016 DAF XF 460.
2007 GINAF X4241S 8×4 truck with a roll-off system and a chassis-mounted crane behind the cab. Its 12 wheels will do for a maximum legal GVM of 41,000 kg (90,390 lbs). Now that’s a heavy-duty truck…
2016 Volvo FH, 12.8 liter engine.
When power meets beauty. Agreed. Another 2016 Volvo FH with the 12.8 liter power unit. A 6-cylinder with approximately 13 liter displacement has become the most common engine in this truck and tractor segment.
2007 DAF XF105, 460 hp 12.9 liter engine. A fine example of a typical trans-European long distance tractor unit, in which case the rig’s GVM is legally limited to 40,000 kg (88,185 lbs). A 400+ hp 4×2 tractor will do the job just fine.
The things you can do with the FWD Fiat Ducato! This 2010 Ducato with a 2.3 liter common rail turbodiesel is owned by Truckstar Magazine.
Brand new Volvo FH, 540 hp from its 12.8 liter engine.
2014 Scania R520. The Topline is the biggest -as in tallest- Scania cab.
1994 Scania T143 6×2, 450 hp.
2015 DAF XF 460. The DAF truck logo of yore, on the lower part of the door, is still popular among owners and drivers.
1996 Scania R143 Streamline 6×2.
2014 DAF XF 460 with the genuine, old school D A F capital letters on its front.
2015 Scania R580 Silver Cat.
1993 Scania R143 Streamline.
1979 Scania LB 141.
The last one for today is this 2012 DAF XF105 with a 460 hp 12.9 liter engine.
In part two we’ll have a look at the show’s Big Rigs. Both trucks with a trailer and tractors with a semi-trailer, the combinations as they roam the roads. Besides the Big Three (DAF, Scania and Volvo) we’ll also see a Mercedes-Benz and several MANs.
Great pics and great coverage as usual, Johannes!
If I were to pick a brand new truck, either a Volvo FH16-750 XL or a DAF XF Euro 6 would be my choices. I just love their interiors a lot!
The XF (and CF) got an update recently. Below the XF Exclusive Line interior.
I can see the Ducato/Promaster becoming the food truck of choice with its’ low flat floor once they start being more widely available used.
I’m a fan of the EuroTruck series of PC games. These pictures remind me of why.
Another ETS2 player here. Ferrying around my cargo in a black 750 hp Volvo. What is your rig of choice?
Glad I’m not the only one. Ran the RJL Scania for quite a while (probably the single truck mod with the greatest customization support), then a Freightliner Argosy for a bit, a Pete 389 until I grew tired of the horrid turning circle (nice customization options though), and now I’m tearing up the asphalt in a Kenworth K200 to bring a bit of that Aussie flavor on European roads.
Next update with the double trailers is going to be great, I expect B-double mods almost immediately.
Regarding the Aussie Kenworth K200, suddenly this photoshop came to mind.
I don’t get all the Bibendum’s sitting on the top of the cabs, seems like a miserable place to be stuck riding to me, sure it is a great view but the weather.
The luggage racks are also quite curious, and you thought loading the rack on a Suburban was a pain, can’t imagine trying to load up one of those. It also fails as a dress up accessory to me as most of them are barely visible from down below.
I’m also surprised at the number of trucks with 360 degree beacons in that similar place, many are placed so low and behind the name box so they have a very limited viewing angle. .
I guess it shows which trucks see a lot of highway miles or just run on local roads – there has to be some noticeable fuel use with some of the extras sitting up there.
The thing I noticed as different was the shrouding of the fuel tanks. Here trucks typically use rectangular tanks (with steps set in) and call it close enough to aerodynamic.
Great trucks and great pictures. Always enjoy seeing the 1970’s models through current ones to see the evolution in design. Jim.
Thanks for this. Lots of trucks popular in Israel back then and now too (Volvo actually goes back to the late 1920 over there; Scania started import in the 1950s and DAF in the next decade). As for GCWs in different countries… In Israel you can gross 59 tons like this (they reduced it from 63 recently) but most drivers go over the limit (not as much as before – people were known to go to 80 tons and sometimes more. But that was before the days of mobile scales and sudden checks). Pic by Eyal Ben Haim.
That’s an impressive rig there ! An 8×2 or 8×4 truck (daycab or sleeper cab) towing a drawbar trailer with 3 axles, widely used here too.
Our national weight limit is 50 metric ton, and 60 metric ton for the 25.25 m long LZVs (Lange Zware Vrachtwagen, Long Heavy Truck), see below.
The highest I’ve heard of, and it may just be an urban (well, rural) legend, was 200 tons in a single semi trailer loaded with manganese ore.
Thanks for these wonderful pictures Johannes! Are the trucks in the first picture riding at a lower suspension height? Seems very low to me…..
Factory air suspension on all axles, quite common these days. They’re in the Truck Show Lowrider position…
Not only the axles have air suspension, but also the cab and the seats.
I love that FH16 Globetrotter. It really takes me back to my childhood in the eighties. Good stuff, Johannes.
I built the Italeri 1/24 model kit, somewhere in the early eighties. Of course it wasn’t in the box with the Globetrotter color scheme. It was an all-white cab with some decals.
What a sensation it was in 1979 at its introduction, although the high-roof all-luxury Berliet Le Centaure predated the Volvo by a year. But French, Italian and Spanish trucks just never were the preferred choices around here.
Always so interesting to see the European heavy trucks, as over here COE units have fallen out of favor and are to my knowledge no longer available, whereas it’s the opposite in Europe. I’m sure space efficiency has something to do with it.
And am I the only one who saw, in the first picture, the “face” of a Volvo 242 staring out at me from the truck on the right? Those round driving lights are positioned almost perfectly on either side of the Volvo “slash” logo in the grille.
Ha !