Browsing through YouTube (a sure-fire place to find interesting 'fresh-meat' for the Biglorryblog) I found this original corporate video shot for the 1979 launch of the Volvo Globetrotter cab. Great bit of period music on it too! I seem to recall that when Volvo launched the Globetrotter cab option on the F10/12 they expected modest sales of maybe a few hundred a year...how wrong they were! Today, 30 years after it was launched, nine out of ten new Volvo FH trucks have a Globetrotter cab. And now there are more versions than you can shake a stick at including (by my reckoning) the 'normal' Globetrotter for the FH and FM, the full-height Globetrotter 'XL', the stretched Globetrotter 'XXL' (for Norway and Australia), the 'LXL' Globetrotter for the FM and the recently-launched 'EXL' Globetrotter from Estepe. Have I missed any others JC?
Volvo Globetrotter cab celebrates its 30th Anniversary! How about the original promo film from 1979 says Biglorryblog?
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