Arriva's 2013-15 Orders

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RE: Arriva's 2013-15 Orders
The SB200 is going to Euro 6 according to Route One, who quoted VDL's sales director in Holland on that. Whether Wright will continue to body it is another matter as they undoubtedly would prefer to sell complete StreetLites. However they do have a strategic agreement for VDL to sell the StreetLite in left-hand drive form in Europe so it might continue as part of the partnership. They have certainly committed to bodying the B8RLE (should anybody actually order it, that is) so there is no cast-iron reason why they won't continue with the SB200.

ADL will officially announce their revised Enviro400 for Euro 6 at some point and the Enviro200 is to be revised too, I am informed. It would be madness to even imagine that they haven't come up with some kind of thing similar to Wright's Micro Hybrid package, as Micro Hybrid is a complete game changer and ADL will be left behind if they don't match it.

There is a rumour that Wright have taken a serious order for StreetDecks, which is not surprising. Having seen what they are offering on the StreetDeck, this will be a big seller unless ADL are somehow able to blow it out of the water with the Euro 6 Enviro400.

Arriva could also order the B5TL in big numbers as this has many of the benefits of the StreetDeck, albeit not all of them.

For any remaining Euro 5 orders that are yet to be announced, bank on the Enviro400 as the DD of choice.