Comments by "Rimrock300" (@Rimrock300) on "After an EPIC Weekend, It’s Time to Take the Scania Home!" video.

Scania knows all of this regarding marketing, but it's okay to mention it. The US market has not been a high focus to them the last decades, they have focused at several other markets. The US heavey truck market is VERY concervative, with the idea of a conventional hooded truck with big sleepers to be the one and only way, sticking VERY DEEP. With the larger number of foregin drivers behind the wheel in the US, things can slowly change. For now it's no big deal to them, they are just watching from the sideline, curious of the american's reaction to a euro cabover as of 2025. Of course there are a certain interest to something new and different. When, or if, Scania feels it actually could potentsially be worth allocating some of their people and resoures backing up Bruce more, they will do so. Sure, some business cards and caps, cups, could be fixed and handed out at shows. I am european, thinking Scania is a fine and cool truck, but I really don't care what they drive in the US. They got some cool trucks too. They can do whatever and seem to manage to get their goods from A to B, just like we do in Europe.
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The Scania is in the US and shown to a american audience. They are not so interested in what looks great in Europe, and the Euro specs. They are interested in what looks great in the USA. (Sorry if this sounds brutal. No harm intended. Peace)
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I think if length regultions in Europe where similar as the USA, we would seen many large sleeper cabs in Europe too. Most people do not mind more space and comfort. Most US sleeper cabs are not very large, but about same size as Scania Longline. US trucks on average are driven long distances then in Europe, many drivers being on the road 3-4 weeks at the time before having several days off. One can do okay with a euro size sleeper cab aslo, it is a matter of habit
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One can lookup 'Scania Longline'. They had it as a factory option a couple of truck generations ago, and later on some 3'rd party company has continued to custom build such extended cabs. It's said Scania now is working at similar cab for the newest series, potentially ready end of 2025. Lenght restrictions in Europe has party grown more flexible the later years, so the potential market for longer cabs have grown a bit larger
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@mohikaan96 Let's at least give Scania time to develop ther XXL cab for the NG series. Scania needs their own mass produced version. The ducth XXL cab is a very expencive custom product, but sure, could be cool having such at shows for now.
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are you a VW/Scania stock owner?
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@peterselin2745 I don't mind it now, can't hurt to show americans how close the trailers sit close to the Euro cabs normally.
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Trump or not, enough tariffs to make it hard to compete with trucks made in the US. Setting up a plant inside the US would been the natural solution, anyway
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Practical reasons, he has stated. The S-cab would be too tall to potentially put on a trailer, in case transport it over longer distances. There possible are some limits regarding how long distance hecan drive the truck a year, or something, and he worried he could come in the situation could not take it to shows
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Mirrors works.
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All the 10 wheels. Otherwice, about nothing. They keep the vintage style of some models, as customers want it, but everything changes now and then, even if they can look the same from a distance. (Sorry if this was not the answer you hoped for)
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@JustTweetAway ah, yes, forgot, sorry, Europe is many decades ahead of the US and any other region in the world, on absolutely everything.
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@JustTweetAway 11-13 liter is the norm for most heavy trucks. They only haul 36 T metric total, and drives a lot on the flat prarie. 500 hk +/- is the usual and more than enough.
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@JustTweetAway I'm sure it's a comfortable truck for the drivers. An issue in the US is many owners are stingy a do not want to offer too much comfort, too costly costly trucks to their drivers. It's a bit other mindset. But still, can be a market for it, an then the lower ost models with smaller engine and not so many extras as this show truck.
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Trump or not, would been too expencive importing them. In practical they would built a plant in the US.
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