Interesting to note. Who's the maker of the bodywork ? Or SBST's
own product ? Soon Chow, SC Auto etc. not involved ? Seems the
seats are from Vogel Sitze ? The wheel rims are chrome plated ?
Steel or alloy rims ?
But no photo showing any wheelchair ramps (retractable if any ?)
like on the M-B Vito taxis or other mechanism to enable the
wheelchair to get in & out of the vehicle ??
As for the driver cockpit, the new steering-wheel design is
welcomed but the 'new' Volvo dashboard instrumentation panel looks
more backdated than before seeming somewhat DAF-like & still
using mechanical milleage counters ?! I wonder how clear the
display would be @ nite as such ?! Having seen the new generation
M-B dashboard used by HI on JB-KL on their O 500 R , the Volvo B9TL
dashboard seems to show 'no improvement' over those from the B10M
(seeming the opposite instead) & both not as modern &
elegent as that on the O 500 R.
I see on the windscreen the claim of 1st Euro-3 public bus ??
Is that really so ? Maybe 1st from SBST or operators from Singapore
?
But if it's to mean 1st among public buses in Singapore, then
(debatably) i won't consider it so. Because with HI's launch of CW3
operating into here, their
M-B O 500's uses engines which are natively Euro-3 compliant but
only perhaps 'downgraded' to Euro-2 due to the higher sulphur
diesel fuel availability from Malaysia ?! Therefore, on the surface
SBST's claim of 1st Euro-3 public bus may seem so BUT thinking more
throughly, i have to conclude it's a 'yes' & 'no' claim.
