Volvo Truck wins Europe’s toughest trade test

The truck industry’s most demanding test – the 1,000 Point Test – is carried out every year by the European motoring trade press with the aim of comparing the market’s range of long-haul trucks with each other. The test lasts four days and covers everything from fuel consumption and engine performance to safety and in-cab comfort. The results of the 2007 test have just been released and

“We are proud of course.” says Claes Nilsson, President Europe Division of Volvo Trucks, adding, “The fact that we won for the second consecutive year shows that the Volvo FH is perhaps the market’s best long-haul truck.”

The 1,000 Point Test is arranged every year by German truck magazine ‘Lastauto Omnibus’ together with commercial vehicle journalists from other European countries. The vehicles participating in the test are similarly specified, driven over the same test route with all measurements and comparisons meticulously supervised.

The current Volvo FH model has been sold in Europe since 2005. The winning vehicle was equipped with I-Shift, Volvo’s celebrated automated gear changing system, and a 400hp 13-litre engine that already meets the Euro 5 exhaust requirements that do not come into force until 2009.