The UK's first 15-metre overall length Scania Irizar i6 coach is set to enter service later this month when it embarks upon long-term trials on a megabus.com route. The initial trial will run for six months, during which time the vehicle is to be based at Stagecoach's Rugby depot and will operate on routes across the UK.Based on a Scania K 410 EB 6x2*4 rear-steer chassis, the vehicle features Scania's 13-litre DC13-115 engine, which complies with the Euro 6 exhaust emissions standard using Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) only. Power output is 410 horsepower at 1,900 r/m...

Stagecoach Bluebird and East Scotland passengers are to benefit after the companies invested £3.4 million in 15 brand new vehicles.Bluebird and Strathtay recently unveiled an investment of £1.4 million in six new luxury coaches in a major boost for public transport in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus and Dundee.In addition, Bluebird has also spent a further £2 million on nine new coaches for Aberdeenshire. Andrew Jarvis, Managing Director of Stagecoach Bluebird, said: The new vehicles are fitted with the latest ‘green’ engines so offer a greener, smarter travel opt...

A new strategy for development of bus and coach manufacturer - VDL. To implement an entirely new business strategy for VDL Bus & Coach, Van der Veer Designers designed a new generation of coaches: the VDL Futura. 
Besides the new Futura, van der Veer Designers also worked in collaboration with VDL Bus & Coach on the restyling of the range of buses for public transport. These buses will be positioned in the market under a single name: VDL Citea.More about these new vehicles: NEW VDL FUTURANEW CITEA ...

German coach operator - Touring, a member of Eurolines, systematically increases the number of routes with higher standard - the so-called Eurolines Business Class. In the initial phase, the carrier has delegated these coaches to operate only between Berlin and Prague, but this idea was an instant hit. Some of the existing rail passengers, moved into the comfortable coaches, and also some individual car drivers, resigned from using their private vehicles. Currently, the German Eurolines provides the Business Class vehicles on the following routes: Munich to Vienna, Munich t...