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News report from TVA Quebec on the LFS artic currently being demoed in Quebec City.

http://tva.canoe.com/cgi-bin/player/player.pl?titre=Informations%20CFCM&emission=cfcm&video=http%3A//medias.tva.ca/stations/cfcm/nouvelle/28511.wmv&reseau=TVA&promotion=http%3A//medias.tva.ca/stations/cfcm/nouvelle/28511.wmv

DE60LF · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 142 Location: Albuquerque, NM

Maybe if Nova re-enters the U.S. market, they could provide a viable third solution for an articulated bus. I know that the LFS sold poorly when Nova was in the U.S. market, however, the LFS may now prove to be a viable option for some TAs.

Only two bus manufacturers in the U.S. market produce artics (New Flyer and NABI). New Flyer mostly dominates this market. NABI is primarily a niche manufacturer for artics now, as only NABI currently produces CNG artics. I have heard that the NABI 60-LFW and 60-BRT are very unreliable buses, which is probably why New Flyer is currently dominating for most artic orders. Depending on how reliable is the Nova LFS artic, they could be a viable second option for artics, and could pull ahead of NABI in terms of market share. If/when Nova begins to offer a diesel-electric hybrid variant of the LFS artic, they could even win more market share. I know NABI offers a diesel-electric hybrid 60-BRT, but has yet to receive any orders for it; much of NABI's orders for low floor artics so far have been CNG models.

kevlaf983 · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:05 am Post subject:

Found a video on youtube of RTC's 0881.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nRla2u5Qso8