Why Mercedes Made Twin-Turbo V10 Trucks

Back in the 90s, when I was out on the road with friends, we ended up at a truck meeting at around 1:00 AM. And there was rhis F2000 with the V10 twin turbo and covered in beautiful airbrush art. We were so excited! Then the driver came to us and asked if we wanted to hear the engine. Of course we wanted! As he was reving it for a few minutes, he mentioned that his boss was sleeping in the truck right next to him... It was such an amazing machine and the sound was awesome! I still have pictues of it, on paper, it was the 90s...

the german law was because they concluded that low power loaded trucks with low speed created more hazardous situations in the roads. So it was to improve safety

German engineers have created so many different liter engines, so many different configuration such as v6, v8, v10, v12 it is unbelievable.

My dad buy a MAN 19.360 V10 in 1979. I drove it sometimes in closed spaces, I was 14. Beautiful machine with a sound different from each other.

I love how the Scania V8 sounds but i got to admit that V10 sounded pretty good too haha

I hope Scania will continue with the V8. Even if trucks like these are not efficient, we need to them inspire kids into becoming drivers!

I was lucky enough to drive a number of preproduction tour buses (coaches) in 1995 and 1996 (partly because of my mechanical engineering background) and working for a large tour company that had over 150 tour buses in their fleet. M.A.N, Volvo and a Scania etc. The brands we offering more horsepower when the coach company was asking for more fuel efficiency and not more horsepower! One of the preproduction coaches had so much horsepower I could overtake cars with a full load of passengers up the Italian Dolomites but it would overheat all the time and I needed to back off to allow it to cool down. The eventual fix was to back off the horsepower from 480+ horsepower to 420 horsepower because there was no room to fit a bigger radiator! Also got to see despite not supposed to be looking at! a few prototypes of new vehicles coming out that because I have not seen them in production that were probably scrapped. I can’t say the manufacturer as I was sworn to secrecy and not allowed to take photos. Lucky experience at the time, and ironically I got told off years later for driving one of the first of a new model in the country where I now live because I had not been trained to drive them. Not knowing that I had driven the preproduction version of the same vehicle!

I did my apprenticeship on many man and Mercedes 6cyl bus motors, turbo and non turbo, intercooled too. Solid flat 6 motor. Individual cylinder heads are great to learn on.

Trucks with V10 or V12 are epic

Thankyou VR for another fascinating video. Those V10 twin turbo's sound so beautiful.

Great video, in 1996 i drove an 33.604 for Baldwins crane hire ( now Ainscough). She was and still is my favourite unit. At 125 tonnes, she could still climb up gradients of 1in 15 with no problems. Day I drive a FH770 it not got it.

We have a small 7t truck at work that brings 130hp out of a 4,2 liter 4-inline. And it already goes pretty good, i'd love to drive it with this engine x)

I've bought a Mercedes NG 2642 with the OM 423 A engine four years ago. It's combined with an Allison 5-speed-transmission inside a fire fighting truck. I love this machine.

A fine engine family! There was also an inline 5. The v10 443ti was also used in military installations. (SA).

There is a minimum power to weight requirement in the province of British Columbia, Canada, too... Commercial Transport Procedures Manual Chapter 5.0 Specialized Vehicle Size and Weight Guidelines and Permits Section 5.3.6.C. Equipment Requirements "i) Truck Tractor: ... c) All truck tractors must feature a maximum gross weight to power ratio of 150 kg per one horsepower." That's a minimum of 6.7 horsepower or 5 kW per tonne (1,000 kg), or 6.1 horsepower or 4.5 kW per ton (2,000 lb). This type of limit is used to keep underpowered trucks from excessively holding up traffic, particularly on uphill highway grades. In the current market this is no longer a concern, as truck owners choose far more power anyway. In Canada a basic tandem-drive tractor and tandem-axle trailer is allowed to weigh up to 39,500 kg; the BC rule would require only 263 horsepower or 196 kW, and no one even sells a Class 8 highway tractor with that little power.

One of the problems of the V10 was the weight, the biggest problem was the non-competitive fuel consumption.

that one slovakian guy doing a burn out in a 7,5t truck lmao

Watching one of those tractor units doing a burnout is like hearing a priest swear. 😅

The D2840 was a great marine engine. Way smoother idling compared to the V8 with cylinder cutout. It’s a shame MAN doesn’t make a V10 anymore.

It's nuts that 500hp was the peak and now it's bare minimum for a semi in Australia.