A discussion on China buses

fireice rox SG

guys, what is your opinion on china buses ar? are they as good as european brands like volvo, scania, merc etc? btw here are some news on china buses

www.chinabuses.org: On 14 August 2010, the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) was held in Singapore. There are 100 King Long buses serving the games for transportation of players, officials and medias, including XMQ6900K, XNQ6117K and XMQ6118K. It is the first time for Singapore to hold such a big-sized global games and the government has high demand on vehicles in the respects of service life, appearance, reliability and comfort. As No. 1 bus brand in the Singapore, King Long is the top choice with excellent quality, market maintenance and after service.

It is known that China buses are increasingly occupying the market that is originally undertaken by Japanese or European bus brand in the current Singapore market. Since launching in 2005, the market maintenance of King Long buses sharply increase, almost 400 units till now and with the growth rate of about 30% in successive four years.

It is introduced that these serving King Long buses all were imported to Singapore in recent 2 or 3 year in good condition. King Long Bus has started guarantee program 3 or 4 months before the opening of this games to make sure smooth operation. It opens 24-hour service hotline, arranges staff on duty for maintenance at any time, elite overseas after-sales team ready in Singapore. Concerning options, King Long prepared the options worthy hundreds of thousands of USD for possible replacement. In addition, it specially prepared two spare vehicles for emergency.

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Zhongtong Bus Frequently Wins Orders Recently

2010-09-14 Author：Andrea Source：www.chinabuses.org

Recently, the biggest highlight of Zongtong Bus is a great number of orders when the domestic new energy vehicle builders are actively developing products. Since the order of 350 high-class luxury city buses from the city bus project operated by French VEOLIA in Morocco with the competition over dozens of foreign famous bus builders such as Benz, Volvo, MAN and Scania, Zhongtong Bus has gained many orders for new energy buses and chassis from many countries and regions.

In this August, the company will deliver 30 hybrid power buses to the customers in Singapore; sign the order of 300 electric buses with customers from Taiwan and the one of over 600 chassis from Saudi Arabia, Iran. Based on related data, it possibly obtains the new energy order of more than 800 units in this year.

The orders show the great capability of Zhongtong Bus. The low floor hybrid power buses and electric buses for Olympic Games all present the advanced level of our electric buses. In the meantime, it will launch 6 kinds of new energy buses in succession within this year and the production base of new energy and energy-saving buses will be built up recently. The related staff of Zhongtong Bus revealed that the new energy bus production base referred to the investment of 1.138 billion Yuan, covering the area of over 600 thousand square meters, and annual production capacity of 20,000 units. By 2013, the project will be totally completed with the normal sales income of 9.48 billion Yuan. It is known that the project is under preparation and possibly will start within two months.