Optare Versa V970

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RE: Optare Versa V970

(14/09/2016 07:31)Quackdave Wrote:  Seems interesting enough to me. There's possibly an argument that it belongs in the "Buses and their bits" section of the forum, but equally you could argue that it's primarily about the TfGM Ecobuses, and therefore fine where it is!

There was a 9.7m (non-hybrid) 07-registered demonstrator built right at the beginning of production. I'm not aware of any others.

Optare's website says that the Versa is available in "9.7 - 11.7m length", so one assumes that they're generally available if anyone wanted to buy them. I can't think of any reason why either Optare or TfGM would want to make their availability exclusive to the latter.

Thanks, I'm still finding my way around (despite being a member of the forum for nearly 4 years) hence why it ended up here!

I think you're right about Optare and TfGM and I wasn't aware that a diesel demonstrator had been produced, though it is an early one so probably escaped my attention. Very interesting to see this size as a non-hybrid.

(14/09/2016 12:09)Alexw12 Wrote:  Preston bus have some of there own V970s,

I thought they were all V1110s?