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Introducing newly designed Skylark bus

• MG Automotives Pvt. Ltd. has launched Skylark-Luxury Bus and Scholar School Bus with a difference.
• Skylark the newly designed bus has amazing specifications ingrained in it.
• It has been conceptualized & designed by a team of highly experienced professional designers with international exposure.
• It's aerodynamically designed front fascia facilitates better fuel efficiency.  
• It is sleek, elegant, & has a functional dashboard that provides the driver to access audio/video system, climate control panel & lights with ease.
• It has a specially designed firewall merged with dashboard.  
• It has a swing type saloon door in power assisted & manual versions.
• It is fitted with sensors at the rear for safe reversal of the vehicle.
• Scholar seating capacity comes in 25+Driver, 32+Driver, 39+Driver options.
• Scholar school bus is an outstanding launch of MG group bringing together quality standards and innovative thinking.
• Scholar is to make children comfortable and refreshed, the air-conditioned version is fitted with an efficient AC unit.
  
   

World News

Bus manufacturers upbeat over increasing market share
The top five bus manufacturers in the country are upbeat on the prospects of increasing their respective market share of city and inter city buses, following the stimulus package announced recently by the Government through the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The package has a component to fund State governments to acquire modern buses.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/12/stories/2009031252111200.htm

Volvo Buses India sold 440 buses in 2007-2008, up from 200 a year before.
http://silverscorpio.com/volvo-india-takes-up-rigorous-cost-cutting-measures/

USA - NYC Transit tests three-door bus in Bronx
It's "Let's Make a Deal" in the Bronx, where NYC Transit is testing a bus with three doors... Exiting straphangers can choose door No. 1, located near the driver and farebox, door No. 2 in the middle of the bus, or door No. 3 toward the rear... The 60-foot big rig started a month-long road test on the Bx12 local route last week. The route includes Fordham Road and Pelham Parkway... If the bus handles the daily grind, officials are expected to place a bulk order for eventual distribution along other routes across the city... This would be good news for New York's economy, since Volvo subsidiary Nova Bus has built a plant in upstate Plattsburgh... The plant will employ 186 workers by the end of the year and 300 when at full capacity, around 2012

http://busnews.blogspot.com/2009/02/busmakers-news-worldwide_23.html

Ashok Leyland to supply 500 more buses to Angola

India’s second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland will supply 500 more buses to Angola by March-end, taking the total order to 1,000 vehicles valued at $43.5 million, it said Thursday... According to the company, the order for the supply of an additional 500 mini buses - 50 being air-conditioned - was bagged last month... Last August, Ashok Leyland had bagged an order to supply 500 buses - 300 specially designed vehicles and 200 Falcon buses

Ashok Leyland to up capacity by 50 per cent
Hinduja Group flagship, Ashok Leyland, a truck and bus manufacturer, is increasing capacity of its commercial vehicle production to 150,000 units per annum, a growth of 50 per cent over the current capacity by end of March 2010. The new capacity is being added at a new plant under construction in Uttarakhand.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ashok-leyland-tocapacity-by-50-per-cent/351537/

Tata Motors to hike bus manufacturing capacity at its Dharwad facility

The Tata Group owned automobile major Tata Motors has drawn up plans to hike the bus manufacturing capacity at its Dharwad facility to 1,250-1,300 buses per month in the two months

http://freepress.in/business/tata-motors-to-hike-bus-manufacturing-capacity-at-its-dharwad-facility/

Daimler Buses achieves best sales results in its history in 2008

In 2008 Daimler Buses achieved the best-ever sales result in its history. The unit sold a total of 40,600 buses and chassis of the Mercedes-Benz, Setra, and Orion brands worldwide, an increase of 4% on the previous record, which was set in 2007. What’s more, sales in Europe of Mercedes-Benz minibuses based on the Sprinter rose by 18% to 1,100 units. I guess not everything is being affected by the economic crisis.

http://www.benzinsider.com/2009/03/daimler-buses-achieves-sales-results-in-its-history-in-2008/

Ashok Leyland, the flagship of the Hinduja Group, and Tata Motors could turn out to be major beneficiaries of a Rs 4,000-cr government

package for procuring buses.

With the Centre part-financing plans of 63 Indian cities to buy 10,000-15,000 buses by June 2009, the current inventory of buses with the companies, estimated to be 8,000, could disappear in four months.

Ashok Leyland and Tata Motors, which have been hit hard by the current slowdown in the commercial vehicle (CV) segment, will benefit as they are the market leaders with 49% and 40% market share, respectively, in the bus segment. Volvo Buses India is the other major player in this category.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/Auto/Automobiles/CV-makers-to-gain-most-from-bus-procurement-package/articleshow/4167478.cms