F10 and F12 provided more comfort, power, style and safety compared to the outgoing F88/89.

[1] The basic chassis components and also the driveline components of the trucks, when launched in 1977, were to a large extent based on the ones introduced in 1973 for the Volvo N-series trucks.

The Globetrotter received a taller windscreen, reaching the top of the higher roof.

[4] This model (F10) won the International Truck of the Year Award in 1984.

The new model now held the flagship tractor title of the Volvo not only Volvo, but also it was the most powerful tractor of Europe beating MAN 19462, Mercedes-Benz 1644, Iveco turbostar 190.42 and Scania 2-series producing 460hp from an in house TD162F engine was also an inline six engines like TD100 and TD120 engines.