New Generation DAF XF 480 Full Tour & Test Drive & XG, XG+

[Music] hi i'm stavros good morning and welcome to lancashire daf here in preston in the uk i'll be showing you around the new daf generation we've got the xf xg and xg plus i'll be showing around these three models we've got a lot to go through in this video and we'll also be going on a test drive so let's check out the new generation dafts finished here in tuscany yellow metallic really striking color for the launch of the new generation dafts so on my left the xg on my right the xf and of course there is an xg plus which we will show you around later on the inside of that truck just to see the comparison between the insides of the cabs because the xg is obviously bigger than the xf and the xc plus bigger again but yeah we have the daf digital vision system there the mirror cam feature so they do fold in which is handy for truck washes and you can see there as well the front mud guard the way it's shaved that's all done for aerodynamics but uh obviously you're going to see a lot of dirt there it's not going to be as hidden as on the old mud guards but as i said it's all done for aerodynamic improvements even if i open the door there you see look we have these little rubber flaps here all to cut down on the drag and we have three steps going up into the cab we do have a small hump here 30 millimeters so it's not a completely flat floor so it's the very same on the xc plus so we don't have any flat floors in any of the new generation trucks but we do have full led headlights all leds on the exterior and you can get full leds on the interior as well as an option and you see there the xf that also has the digital vision system now if you look over on the windscreen on the xf here you'll see we do have the mirror there so you can get that on the front if you don't want the digital vision system here but i actually think this is very good when i hop inside i'll show you this it gives you great vision all around here all around that area there so i really like that so yeah we've got a 490 liter diesel tank and you've got your hydraulic fluid tank on the driver's side and all your hydraulic hoses yeah it's a 6x2 mid lift yeah they are uh quite a big cab though and you see the bed there as well as 800 millimeters wide uh really wide bed on them and we have led lights on the rear there as well i like the number plate look at the number plate there uh very handy to have that and yeah you've got your batteries there at the back as well and that is a slidable fifth wheel there and it's sitting on 70 profile tires there dunlaps yeah steel wheels of course you can get aluminium wheels that will cut down on your weight as well but yeah the collar really looks well in the sun okay we're going to hop inside and first of all i'm going to show you this locker because these lockers on the xg and xg plus are bigger than the xf and i'll show you the xf locker there later on but yeah they're quite a big size decent size and you can also access them from underneath the bunk as well but so you have one of equal size on the passenger side so let's close that yeah and three steps as i said climbing up into the cabin we have a speaker here and we have tweeters there on the pillars fabric finish around here and he that's your door handle there just pull that off and plus you have it's easier to grab that top step so before you had to kind of really put out your foot to grab that top step but now you see there it is easier to grab it because of the way it's shaped here so i like that and this seat there as well buy a nice microfiber finish on it there and leather it all around the side and of course heated and cooled and you've got your lumbar support and your leveling there for the back axle so that's just your hydraulic lever there for the tipping gear on the trailer but look at the bunk there look look at the way it's shaped so it's done by these switches here so that is uh quite a relaxing bunk and even the mattress itself is very soft look at that look and then you can get this mattress topper i'd love to have that on the truck i drive look at that so you can get great comfort on the bunk and your top bunk as well that is nice and wide so as i said these two bunks are wider than the xf you can even see look the length of the cab compared to this xg so yeah the xf but this one does have one of these small windows on the passenger side door so i'm going to show you the visibility out of this cab when we hop inside and just have a look at the vision here that you have from the digital vision system there look so that's that view all around the cab so look look just how much of the trailer is picking up see that look so this would be a very good blind spot camera for cars coming up your inside really like that and you have the mirror cam feature here the digital vision system and your air vents the way they are designed and i don't really like the way you can see the body color inside they should have really have hidden that away with trim anyway we have storage here down the side and you have three lockers here decent storage in them and there is fabric on the inside as well just to stop things from making rattling noises up on top of the lockers there you go close them down and yeah we have the sunroof there you've got a block out blind and you're flying it and we can open it up there you go is that opening yeah it's just tilting open there and close it down again now we just have one light on the top bunk we don't have any controls up here but we have controls down there for your stereo and you can lock the doors and there's even a panic button here as well so you can press that and it will sound the alarm and you have the lighting functions there and storage all around the back wall there as well so yeah you can lift up the bunk and you can gain access to the outside lockers underneath here as well in there so and let me just pull this out so we have a storage box there that's a good size and i really like these dividers see that you can move them all down along so that's a nice piece of design i like that and we have the fridge here as well so we can keep it out and it'll stay in place and you have two bottle holders there they're nice and deep and we have decent storage in the fridge there so that's an okay size now you can get two fridges if you want one here as well that is an option you can pick and we have armrests there for both sides of the seats and those seats do swivel so let me see can i swivel that now and show you guys yeah there you go so we can swing that all the way around i like that and we can also do it with the driver's side so you can swivel the driver's side now it is a bit awkward once you have the tipping gear lever here you probably won't be able to swing this fully around but yeah you can swivel the driver's seat now over into that i'll show you there is a cinema seat in the passenger side and that folds up uh the seat base so it gives you better vision looking out through that side window yeah there is a lot of information in this video okay so let me just move down here we do have a pull-out drawer that's a good size and your two cup holders and you have a nice little see see how far that extends out and then we have a big area here where you can place items and that's nice and soft as well so nothing's going to be sliding around too much on that which is good probably be a bit hard to clean in around there though anyway that's a nice pull-out table there and if i zoom in there you'll see we do have a usb port and so that is for your android auto or apple carplay which is done on the screen here and we have two more usbs on the side there yeah so it's all looking quite nice and awfully it doesn't have a completely flat floor but i suppose staff did that to save money so they'd only always have to have three steps on the xg xg plus and xf so close the door we have a button here where i can pull down the steering which is good and yeah we're going to start it up see what it sounds like let me just give you a start up here on the 13 liter straight six cylinder diesel engine now you see this display we can change this to a more modern style so if i go down through the menu here and click over on the right hand side let me just turn down the music here if i flick over i can change the style of that display so let me click on yeah display settings watch this now watch if i click on that and then if i go over to you see the way it's on classical i can change that to modern if i click on that then we come back on our display you should be able to see a completely different layout on the rev counter see that and the speedo if i rev it up now look yeah so you have two different displays there if you wish and yeah you can have you can display different information as well on this screen and yeah now this infotainment screen here there is an awful reflection on it isn't there why is there such a bad reflection on it but anyway um you can have your apple carplay as i said android auto and various different functions on the screen there as well yeah i do like the fact that we have a proper knob here for the stereo and just switch it off there so over here we have our pto we have our load transfer switch and traction control diff lock you can turn off the rear reversing buzzer and your mid lift and your diesel particular filter regen on that and you're leveling there for the axle and down here for your air conditioning and more lighting switches up here and the height of the truck there 13 foot four inches so you can fold in the mirrors just by one touch of this button here and you'll notice fold it out and then we can fold them back in so i like that it's very handy for going through truck washes and maybe down a narrow road with trees and you just want to fold them in just to protect them i have the display there changed back to the classical layout give it a couple of revs now the stalks here are quite thick for an indicator stock that is quite thick and then we have these little wheel design here for the windscreen wipers you can do them from the back you see the way look the wheel goes right around to the back on each side and here as well we have our engine brake three-stage engine brake and we have different mode functions here and drive neutral and reverse on the stock here as well and over on this side we have horn you can of course get an air horn and your windscreen washers now you'll notice we just have two wipers on the older daf xf's of course we have three wipers because it was a narrower windscreen but now we have a bigger windscreen by 33 and 15 bigger uh door windows as well so that's all very good and you see the lines there as well so you can set these lines you see the red line you can set that for the back of the trailer just to give you an idea where the back of the trailer is using the digital vision system so let me just zoom in there yeah you see it there on the driver's side and of course we have a wide angle one there at the bottom but as i said already this angle here for the uh the blind spot one i really like that that's a a great addition i would recommend that now of course you can get normal mirrors as well if you just want this that one there you can just get that and have normal mirrors and not have the digital vision system for the main mirrors here you can do that if you want and we have our cruise control functions and going down through the menu here and volume up and down and your stereo functions as well and voice activation so yeah let me just hop out of the driver's seat i have the bunk now folded up and as i said before you can get access to the lockers underneath just by lifting up that cover if you want and let me just drop down the bunk there as well so there you go 800 millimeters wide so of course other trucks will be 800 mils out here but then there's a cut out but look at this this is 800 mil full size full width so yeah quite good so let me just give you a proper look at the dashboard just move back there so yeah it is a huge improvement over the old one but it still has a daf look to it all around here doesn't it the design and the red seat belts there as well so yeah i think i'm just going to give you a quick look at the daf xf and then we're going to go for a drive in this truck as well so just one last look of the xg before we now move on to the xf now you'll notice that both of these trucks don't have the visor above the windscreen and i think the new generation trucks look better without the visor all that does is increase your aerodynamic drag you can get air horns as well on the roof if you wish let me just hop inside the xf just to give you guys a look and i'll show you the locker here as well now of course these are smaller because the length of the cab is smaller and you've also got smaller bunks but still an okay size on the xf give this a good push in there we go and we have 710 liters in the diesel tanks of course you've got bigger capacity than on this one this is 490 liters because of the hydraulic fluid system that's your hydraulic fluid as i said over on that tank so yeah 710 liters it's not a great amount but it's pretty okay now you'll notice we of course have the same three steps on the xf but we have a bigger engine hump here in the middle the very same driver's seat with the red seat belt and of course the narrower bunk now you see the way the seats kind of eat into the bunk here the way they're shaped because of the smaller cab and yeah the same smaller bunk here open top as well but i like this sliding ladder look at that that's a nice touch and there is your cinema style passenger seat so this gives you better visibility out through that window and it's very good for these new vision standards that are coming into london so uh this has a three star rating this truck because it has this window here and we have uh yeah so that is the mirror there if you don't want to have the digital vision system here above the main camera mirror system there so yes that's all very good i'm i'm still a bit 50 50 on these uh i i'd nearly prefer just to have normal mirrors but this is the way things are going in the future for uh better aerodynamics so there you go uh the piano black i'm not really too pushed about this piano black finish all around here i mean it is going to get scratched easy and show fingerprints and dust and yeah so i would have nearly have done without this piano black finish and as i said already the infotainment screen there's just too much of a shine on it it's reflecting too much anyway these can all be improved over time i'm sure let's just hop out and give you one last look let's step right back and check out the tuscan yellow metallic with the sun today now i think it's time to get behind the wheel of the xf and see what it's like on the road okay harvey you're going to talk to us now about this new vision standard that's coming into london as i just pull out the trailer here yes so yeah direct vision standard is uh is now active in london and at the moment you know a customer needs a minimum of one star to take the the truck into london or a permit to operate a vehicle in london once we go to october 2024 the the standards go up to three stars so a lot of customers are now looking forward to to october and beyond the beauty with any vehicles with a three-star rating or higher is you get a permit for 10 years so this vehicle all right so you have a permit for this for 10 years 3 star rating 3 star rating will give you access to london for 10 years yeah um so this is the xf this is a vehicle that we can get three stars on and a couple of features that you need to select to be able to do it so you need the curve view window or the cinema seat you need the uh the daf vision system okay and you need the daf vision dashboard providing we specify it with those three options oh yeah then the truck will will get a three-star rating going to the tfl um information and you can upload it and get a permit to operate in london and harvey what sort of trucks are five star then so the five star trucks are generally uh your low entry um refuse type vehicles such as the mercedes-benz iconic and the uh the dennis eagle truck there's only two as far as i'm aware that uh that will meet five stars yeah the scania l series will be the same possibly no entry yeah low entry obviously you need you know high level of vision around the uh around the vehicle and the sensor at the side you said is for this is part of the three star rating isn't it to detect cyclists or cars coming up here inside left turn assist is is a side a factory based radar side scan system and you can see down here under the uh the camera screen at this side this is the um you know the speaker that noticed notifies you but that radar will work to the front of the front corner of the truck and down the side of the the trailer as well so you know particularly in london again you know you can have cyclists moving at high speed and be alongside the the truck and the trailer very very quickly so that adds an extra amount of protection for the driver and then there's an orange lamp at the left side yes yeah so we fit on the on this truck this demo truck an amber valley left turn audible warning system so that's that's a spoken left turn warning again to um vulnerable road users and it's also got strobe lights on it so at night you know it will make people aware the side of the truck the truck is turning left so that's very handy when you're stopped at the set of traffic lights and a cyclist is right there yes and you have your indicator turning to the left and it's giving them an audible warning i am turning left and flashing the light correct very good very good so you know you can see with the uh you know the vision on this side of the uh the truck is is very good with the curb view window but you know cyclists you know to traditionally try and park themselves out the way anyway so fortunately where that system sat there is probably where they're gonna sit next to the truck so you know they'll have quite a loud um audible warning telling them that the truck's gonna turn i got a flash there from somebody driving a very nice bentley vent bentega i don't think they know me herbie well i think i think so truckee was flashing stamross not that not you not me not you i think it's quite happy to see a nice uh new x xf on the road definitely not me anyway it's very comfortable at the back the four bags on the back axle you see this is something scania don't do they don't like bringing in scanias into ireland especially with four bags at the back axle crazy i've no idea why it dries it well we don't have any weight on the trailer so no it's an easy test yes and it is it is fairly quiet in the inside of the cab as well definitely and we have our three-stage engine brake as well yeah we'll try that at the end of the motorway section just to see what you think to that yeah i'm just looking at the top angle here on this digital vision system i would like it to be wider right on top oh yeah it would be nice if it was a bit wider up top i almost feel like i'm kind of going like this to try and look yes it's not making any difference here harvey the comfort it's very nice isn't it yeah i remember this there's this front air suspension and air suspension for the cab as well or you can get a full air ride on it if you that way incline but you know i think you look great it's very comfortable isn't it but i stood up in the middle of this earlier harvey i mean i can stand up fully in this cab in the middle and i'm six foot two yes so i've got i've got about an inch over my head so obviously in the xg and xg plus you've got a lot more head space definitely and bigger beds of course because it's a bigger cab yes but we're going to hop into the xd plus um just before we finish off the video after our test drive but we are actually on a productive test drive harvey because we're actually dropping a trailer dropping a trailer for a customer so that's so that's good news isn't it i am now working for lancashire i'm moving to the uk ah my father won't be happy with that at all yeah and no it's uh it feels nice on the ropes all right it does yeah it does feel nice and one thing about the suspension on the front as well it's not too well away you know like air suspensions on the front are are nice harvey right but sometimes like say for instance you're down a back road they just tend to be a bit on the wallowy side you know to give you a proper feel of the road that's the difference i felt going from the r560 into the s580 yes that's just my finding on it sometimes when it's moving a lot the suspension can't compensate quick enough yeah so you get this you get a counter effect with a suspension whereas a you know spring is a lot more you know a lot more robust isn't it a bit more firmer ride the visibility out here that's very good yes very yes yes yeah and the windscreen i've no problem with the windscreen whatsoever the visibility outside that is very good so yeah the improvements were long overdue there's no question about it definitely you know as we said 33 yeah windscreen and side windows over the old model so the three engine types before 50 and the 480 we're in now and then there's the 530 correct correct sort of 450 is the mx11 yeah and then the 480 and the 530 the mx-13 engines so 13-liter and you told me that the 480 that we're in yeah develops the same torque as the previous 510 that's correct yeah in 12th gear top gear 2 2 500 newton meters of torque which is pretty impressive you know the whole idea is as we're crossing terrain the truck wants to stay in top gear as long as possible yeah you know to give us the the best fuel efficiency for the truck and then on the xc plus then you've got 530 horsepower yes but in 11th gear it's 2550 newton meters and then it goes up to 2 700 yeah in tough gear correct so all of this is done to save on fuel 100 yeah we're obviously committed to reduce fuel which reduces operators costs but on the you know the byproduct of that as well is if we reduce the fuel but we also reduce the co2 emissions of the truck as well so it's uh you know it's a win-win for everybody really okay we've just arrived at matthew kibble's yard and we're going to park next to his brand new xf let's have a look so there is matthew's new daff xf 480 horses and he has opted for the normal mirrors as you can see and the sun visor so yeah i wouldn't really be too pushed about having the sun visor but i suppose some people want it and this man is washing trailers fair play it's a big yard he has down here so i've just dropped the xg now we need to head back to lancaster daf to show you the xg plus let's go so i'm now in daff's flagship truck the xg plus this is their most spacious cab this one has 530 horsepower look at this the amount of space over my head so let me just quickly walk you around the cab here just to give you a look so we have the brown inserts on the full leather covered steering wheel and then we have full leather finish on the seats then we have a beige look to the base of the dashboard and more brown up here on top and then silver inserts all along the vents here as well and if i move up on top we have more silver inserts on the top lockers and then at the back wall another silver finish in the storage compartment there on the back and yeah the bunk is the very same size as the xg and also the top one so i sadly i can't show you the outside of the truck because this truck is sold and the owner doesn't want to show the outside yet and yeah we just have normal mirrors on this example and they have opted for the digital vision system there at the corner so that's the screen for that but yeah that's how it looks on the xg plus so that's where i'm going to wrap it up from lancaster dav here in preston in the uk i look around the xg plus xf and xg quite a nice truck on the road nice and comfortable of course with the four airbags yeah i really did it's a nice truck definitely is a couple of small areas that need improving but yeah overall nice spacious truck and just lock it up there there we go so i do hope you enjoyed the video please give it a thumbs up if you did and i'll be back again hopefully sometime again here in lancaster deaf to do more videos there's an electric truck i have to video and yeah there'll be more coming so thanks a lot for watching guys and i'll chat you then cheers i took a wrong turn you did yeah anyway gives us a time to um yeah check out the uh digital vision system in reverse in reverse mode

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Length: 29min 1sec (1741 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 06 2022