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So, new tires (which happen independently) a stroked engine (without saying it), a more aerodynamic cladding (surprise), and that is it?

In IT that is called a spec bump, not a disruption.

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It's a standard entry in the OTR long haul market segment, Volvo's equivalent of the Freightliner Cascadia and International Lonestar, all with their own take on the same set of features. Efficiency trim like aero and tires are standard, but marketing hypes it anyway and brags about how their new engine technology is superior when they do something as banal as switching to a different injector supplier.

The USA market supports a substantial truck hauling segment to fill the rail deficit. All they do is drive a thousand miles from warehouse A to warehouse B over and over, so aero between cab and trailer that restricts tight maneuvers doesn't matter, LRR tires start to make sense since they never spend significant time on lower speed surface streets, etc. It's not like the USA is going to update (much less upgrade) rail and that truck market is fully saturated and primarily cost sensitive, so actual disruption only adds risk.

They may not say it in the article, but there's been overhauls of most of the internal systems to accommodate use cases that didn't exist decades ago when the previous models were designed.

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