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chinabuse.org: Australia is the first market in the world to receive supplies of a new Scania Schoolbus. The new Scania A30 arrives from its Chinese manufacturing plant, operated in cooperation with Higer, in a ready built status, needing only the installation of seats. The Scania A30 uses a Swedish-built Scania rolling chassis complete with all mechanical features and powertrain. The body is assembled from components sourced by Scania-approved suppliers. At the end of the production process, Scania personnel perform a quality audit.
The 12.5m Scania A30 will seat 57 in standard form, and comes complete with underfloor bins, and air-conditioning suited to Australian conditions. The powertrain is the well-known Scania 5-cylinder 9-litre 270hp engine, certified to Euro 4, although other variants are available, including Euro 5 PLUS EEV to special order. The 4x2 Scania A30 uses a six-speed ZF automatic gearbox with retarder and runs air suspension all round. The first production example off the line has now arrived in Australia and has been ADR complianced. Customer deliveries will begin in the first quarter of 2010.
The Scania A30 will also be sold in right-hand drive markets such as the UK and South Africa as well as LHD markets such as France, the Middle East and Asia.
The 3.5m tall Scania A30 is a lower version of the Scania A50 and Scania A80, both of which meet European compliance standards and are on sale in various markets.
The bottom line is that customers are getting a Scania branded product, running a genuine Scania powertrain and chassis, with the reliability, quality and life-cycle costs they can trust, plus the efficiency of Scania’s low consumption, low emission engines, Scania states.