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With DAF's sales performance consistently dominating the UK market, it
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doesn't take a genius to observe that it provides what the market wants. Almost the entire package is proof of a well designed and thoroughly developed product.
Even something like suspension tuning, which many rivals struggle to perfect for UK conditions, is spot on.
It's not perfect, though. An extended day cab option would be a useful compromise that would surely suit many operations, and there are a few ergonomic issues, such as the lack of side sun visors, that would be fixed in a perfect world.
As for the 7.5-v 12-tonne argument, the figures speak for themselves. If you have suitable toads for the 12-tonner, why pay nearly twice as much to mess around with a relic of a bygone legislative era?
And when you finish with it, you can stilt down-plate to 7.5 tonnes and sell it to the non-HGV race transporter or horsebox market.