Bullheaded Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Since it's was April Fools and I know you all love Volvo, remember this large car? Volvo's attempt at a long nose owner/op machine. What an ugly bastard, LOL Only thing that was impressive was it had a 625 h.p. motor for a while until they downgraded it to a 600. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 And another iconic brand Volvo killed off. Autocar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james j neiweem Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 If those dumb bastards-Volvo- had kept Acar alive there would still be plenty of new Acar's roaming the Northeast. I still see a few roaming around from time to time. Same applies to Superliner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 I believe there still exists as a An Autocar branded Garbage packer! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james j neiweem Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Yes there is. I wonder why they don't try and make a conventional. May bee it was part of the agreement with Volvo that the current Autocar had to stick to cab over refuse trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 2 hours ago, james j neiweem said: Yes there is. I wonder why they don't try and make a conventional. May bee it was part of the agreement with Volvo that the current Autocar had to stick to cab over refuse trucks. I think it's more that they are smart enough to stick what is profitable for them. They wouldn't have much market share amongst all the other conventionals. And you are right James, I still see lots of old steel hood Autocars at work every day in Michigan too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 (edited) The new Autocar also makes yard shunt trucks too. They are a big seller for them also. https://www.autocartruck.com/ Edited April 3, 2019 by Bullheaded 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbigrig Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 6 hours ago, james j neiweem said: If those dumb bastards-Volvo- had kept Acar alive there would still be plenty of new Acar's roaming the Northeast. I still see a few roaming around from time to time. Same applies to Superliner. As part of the deal to take over Mack, Volvo was forced to get rid of the Autocar brand which only carried the low entry cabover at the time. Something to do with competing with the MR at the time. They would have tied most of the market up selling those 2 brands of low cab over entry. I think i read it was the competition bureau that made the call to give the blessing for the merger/purchase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 4, 2019 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 I could be wrong, but I thought Autocar had the ACL conventional right to the end. I do know for sure that a couple years later when that group of investors bought the Autocar name and trademark, they also bought the rights to the White Expeditor cab which they still use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TS7 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Volvo dropped the Autocar name and ACL for the VHD truck. The White cab used on the ACL and Volvo WG was not that great. White did more harm to Autocar than Volvo did I think. Volvo was right to call the VHD a Volvo, that is what it is. I think the old White Expeditor was branded the Volvo Expeditor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 On 4/3/2019 at 12:47 PM, Bullheaded said: I think it's more that they are smart enough to stick what is profitable for them. They wouldn't have much market share amongst all the other conventionals. And you are right James, I still see lots of old steel hood Autocars at work every day in Michigan too. On 4/3/2019 at 12:47 PM, Bullheaded said: I think it's more that they are smart enough to stick what is profitable for them. They wouldn't have much market share amongst all the other conventionals. And you are right James, I still see lots of old steel hood Autocars at work every day in Michigan too. If this were the case they could have put some effort into The Mack brand! And it would have and should have been the go to Vocational truck ! They could have dumped the `Volvo trash branded units and been miles ahead. Nothing smart about these guys! They have trashed out the MR as well ! At least we there will be the A Car/ and Pete for the industries to fall back on ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry T Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 On 4/3/2019 at 3:48 PM, Bullheaded said: The new Autocar also makes yard shunt trucks too. They are a big seller for them also. https://www.autocartruck.com/ ODFL has Autocar spotters. One of our two (hopefully our new 3rd will also be) is an Autocar and the guys really like it. It runs hard about 16 hours a day and the only real issue we have had is that the rear door won't stay open and the step catwalk directly behind the cab (against it really) has come loose a couple times, I provided some locktite for the two nuts/bolts and that seems to have done the trick so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullheaded Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 10 hours ago, fjh said: If this were the case they could have put some effort into The Mack brand! And it would have and should have been the go to Vocational truck ! They could have dumped the `Volvo trash branded units and been miles ahead. Nothing smart about these guys! They have trashed out the MR as well ! At least we there will be the A Car/ and Pete for the industries to fall back on ! Not talking about Volvo being smart.....talking about the new owners of the Autocar brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjh Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 11 hours ago, Bullheaded said: Not talking about Volvo being smart.....talking about the new owners of the Autocar brand. Ahh Sorry ! Just can't resist bashing these idiots ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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