[foby.sebastian]

Originally Posted by hanmust

Saw this coach for the first time. Its seems coachs name is SHEENA. Anyway its good looking & well build. Any idea who are the coach builder.

i think sheena belongs to shillibear

[sajo]

Originally Posted by Ram

The chassis and airconditioned cab is made at Pithampur and the rock-body tipper at New Bombay. Street price is Rs. 29.5 L (Sept. 2008).

Thanks for the informative post Ram. How much do equivalent 6x4 Tippers from Tata (2516) or even AMW or AL Taurus based ones cost ?
And how much does the tractor variant (just the head) of the 280 cost ?

[Mpower]

Originally Posted by Ram

Its straight-six MAN D0836 6.9 litre turbo-diesel engine is a two-stage turbo supercharged, intercooled, common rail diesel with external cooled exhaust-gas recirculation (EGR).

Its a dual stage turbocharged engine. No super-turbo like VW TSIs.

[nbr]

The Karnataka govt launched 50 more Volvo city buses at a introductory offer with just One Rupee for a ride for the first four days. This is done for people to use Volvo and differentiate the difference.

They have also launched a new track for the BMTC bus drivers for training.

[Ram]

Thanks for the nice pictures, nbr.

1) I suppose these must be built on the Volvo B7RLE citybus chassis
as opposed to the B7R used for intercity coaches.

2) Where was the third picture (models inside the building) taken?

3) Would you please transliterate and translate for us? My handicap is, I can't read Kannada.

Thanks
Ram

[nbr]

Originally Posted by Ram

Thanks for the nice pictures, nbr.

1) I suppose these must be built on the Volvo B7RLE citybus chassis
as opposed to the B7R used for intercity coaches.

2) Where was the third picture (models inside the building) taken?

3) Would you please transliterate and translate for us? My handicap is, I can't read Kannada.

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Thanks
Ram

Ram ,

The third picture is of the new training facility somewhere in Basavangudi for the BMTC drivers.

The signboard was displayed just to wish everybody for having these new buses.

Cheers
NBR

[prashanthyr]

Second pic basically is BMTC in Kannada - Bengaluru Mahanagara Sarige Samste.

Originally Posted by Ram

Thanks for the nice pictures, nbr.

1) I suppose these must be built on the Volvo B7RLE citybus chassis
as opposed to the B7R used for intercity coaches.

2) Where was the third picture (models inside the building) taken?

3) Would you please transliterate and translate for us? My handicap is, I can't read Kannada.

Attachment 48324

Attachment 48325

Thanks
Ram

[nbr]

Originally Posted by nbr

The Karnataka govt launched 50 more Volvo city buses at a introductory offer with just One Rupee for a ride for the first four days. This is done for people to use Volvo and differentiate the difference.

They have also launched a new track for the BMTC bus drivers for training.

This offer of One rupee per ride is a smashing hit. All Volvo buses were overcrowded for the first time,since they launched these services.This is indeed a positive way of getting people to try out the comfort of a Volvo and the normal city buses

[asj]

Here is a detailed analysis of why BRT in Indian cities will struggle.

Why India’s Bus Rapid Transit Projects don’t excite me

ASJ

[foby.sebastian]

spotted a fleet of ashok leylands new generation trucks , in the first sight it closely ressembles volvo FM9, there were seven spotted in the fleet near to cochi

[praJEEP]

Spotted this mercedes on the way back to bangalore.

[1100D]

Mercedes-Benz bus Coachbuilt by Sutlej. But I guess on the same lines as the Vanhool or the Kassbohrer built busses having chassis from Mercedes Volvo etc.

But I guess Volvo was getting back to manufacturing their own in India.

[directinjection]

Originally Posted by praJEEP

Spotted this mercedes on the way back to bangalore.

It looks more SUTLEJ than a genuine Mercedes Benz.

[foby.sebastian]

Originally Posted by directinjection

It looks more SUTLEJ than a genuine Mercedes Benz.

does it really looks like a merc.?

[TheARUN]

The Mercedes Benz bus definitely looks like a sticker job. Its most possibly a Tata or Leyland rear engined chassis, difinitely not Benz. Looks too much like B7R and Benz would not put up the 3 pointed star on the mirrors