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* Sweden - Praise for Scania's much-missed Longline
Sweden -Biglorryblog (UK) -23 Feb 2007: -- ... the answer was provided when Scania launched the Longline...or eXc as it was originally called---what you see below is the first production eXc which had an R Series cab, stretched by around 1.3m, and based upon the wheel plan of a bonneted T-cab 6x2.
.. The space (for a cabover) was phenenomal yet everything from the B-post forward was bog-standard R Series Topline. And here's a picture to prove it. .. The bed on the left runs the LENGTH of the cab in the Longline not across like in a normal sleeper. What you also got was a fully-fitted kitchinette and wash basin and extra arm chair to watch the telly (far left). Put it underneath a regular 13.5m long trailer and the rig was still shorter (by just under a metre) than a maximum length of an18.75m long drawbar. And driving the longer eXc/Longline wasn't an issue either---indeed I had decent spells behind in both the eXc and the Longline in Sweden and Germany on some pretty rural roads as well as city centres. And apart from winding the steering back a bit to avoid the cut-in on the trailer of the longer outfit I couldn't see the difference between it and a normal 16.5m artic...Labels: trucks
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