SHOGUN Muscles Up
To be blunt, it was a surprise when word starting filtering through late last year that Daimler Trucks Australia was extensively testing a 500-plus 13 litre engine in Fuso’s flagship Shogun model.
After all, Japanese makers have over many years appeared to have an historic and almost ritualistic indifference to engines of such size and output in their heavy-duty contenders.
Whether that apparent indifference has been driven by European masters in the case of Fuso (Daimler) and UD (Volvo), or by a dearth of domestic demand in the case of Hino and Isuzu, is contestable. Whatever, the lack of an advanced, efficient and potently powered engine in
