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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
I also miss the '90's "D.A.F." buses (in fact, only the chassie, the steering and the things on which wheels are staying where made by "D.A.F."... the motor and the gear box where German, the body work Spanish or Greek, and the seats - execept for #205 (1st bought) wehere Romanian).
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205, that's within the equipment number range of our long-gone 1984 Scanias. They were numbered 201-212.
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Originally Posted by AiboPet
I remember first seeing those articulated busses. They reminded me of a REAL cheesy movie I saw as a kid called "The Big Bus"....which I have here somewhere. They were so novel when I first saw them, but now those things SNARL up traffic with their ass-end still HANGING out into traffic when they stop. Those will make left turns and then there will be a STOP close to the corner. Once again...the ass-end of the thing sitting out in traffic, or worse....TWO of them will gridlock an intersection.
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I hear that a lot of our drivers don't like the new Nova artics. Confusing controls, dome lights that flood out the interior (I have seen them switched off completely on one side), and doors that open way too slowly. Sometimes one has to bolt through the rear doors because they close so fast on many of these. I have been caught between them before. Just like the 1999-2000 40-foot Novas, these use an annoying motion sensor that one has to wave a hand under to get the doors to open.