No one can deny that Swedish lorries offered us high standards of performance and driver comfort when they appeared in the UK in the late ‘sixties. Volvo, for one, soon became a big seller in the UK during the 1970s. The models that were central to their sales drive were the highly successful ‘System 8’ series, namely the F86 and F88 that won over thousands of British customers. Having gained such popularity, Volvo sought to maintain their position by coming up with new models featuring even more improvements.
Most would agree that the F88 offered performance, reliability and comfort not found in most of its British contemporaries. Drivers were not used to
