MAN F8

The MAN F8 is a conventional-cab heavy truck from MAN, introduced in 1951 as the company's first heavy lorry after the Second World War. Production ended in 1963, and the last trucks were mostly exported. MAN built it with three wheelbases and offered a flatbed or tipper body from the factory, while outside firms fitted special bodies such as furniture vans onto the F8 chassis. Its 11.6 litre V8 diesel, type D 1548 M, gave 180 DIN horsepower or 132 kilowatts and made the F8 the most powerful truck in MAN's range of its day. It has a two-axle ladder frame, rear-wheel drive only, an unsynchronised six-speed ZF gearbox and a top speed of 60 kilometres per hour, and it was built only with left-hand drive.