The golden age has passed, are long-distance buses still high-end?

As a golden age for the development of China's road passenger transport, major trunk line transportation companies in China's provinces, cities and autonomous regions are basically equipped with high-end business buses and luxury sleeper buses with better comfort. However, the momentum of railway development is strong. Due to the urgent pressure of development in the new era, "road passenger transport" has lost its former vitality. What follows is a reduction in the capacity of trunk passenger lines, and some even have to cancel the operation of the lines. destiny.

Recall the high-end models of the glorious era of road passenger transport, such as Volvo B10M, B12M, NEOPLAN, SETRA, VDL-BOVA and a series of classic models . Nowadays, it is difficult to hear the roar of these "awakening lions" in highway passenger transportation, and they are replaced by better, clean and environmentally friendly new energy vehicles.

Volvo Bus Company, one of the world's largest heavy-duty bus manufacturers, and Xi'an Aircraft Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. formed a joint venture to establish Xiwo Bus Company. As China's first high-end bus joint venture, the company has been the dominant player in China's luxury bus market since its establishment. In the golden age of domestic highway passenger transport development, Seewo presented a series of classic high-end models such as B10M and B12M to domestic passenger transport companies.

However, as the "leader" of China's road passenger luxury buses, Siwo Bus is facing the dilemma of equity transfer. Not only Siwo, but also a luxury bus manufacturer that kept pace with it at that time also faced the same dilemma. In an embarrassing situation, history will eventually be buried by the pace of continuous progress.

Siwo XW6120B10M was a luxury model with a high sales volume in the three northeastern provinces and even the country at that time. At that time, the first passenger transport company in the three northeastern provinces to purchase the closed-end model, "Jilin Jilong Passenger Transport". The car is equipped with THD102KF DH10 engine, maximum power: 210KW.

The downtown area of ??Harbin is very happy to see B10M alive.

I was lucky enough to see the "finished version" B10M model at Yinchuan Station. This car was retired and transformed into a temporary ticket office.

Siwo's B10M bus ranks first in the domestic high-end bus industry in terms of production, sales and corporate economic benefits. Decision-makers at Volvo's headquarters in Sweden also unanimously believe that China Seawo Bus Company is a model for all their global investment companies: good cooperation, excellent management, fastest results, and the best benefits.

As a result, Siwo took advantage of the trend and launched the XW6960B6 model, mainly to meet the vehicle needs of the tourism industry. At that time, many domestic travel companies were in the peak period of vehicle renewal, and the Seewo B6 was an ideal model to replace imported vehicles. Jiangsu Kuailu Passenger Transport and Shanghai Jinjiang Business Travel both purchased this model. However, the number of copies is not as impressive as that of the B10M. I thought this model was extinct, but a car collector in China saved one. The car is equipped with a Volvo D6B inline six-cylinder turbocharged intercooled diesel engine with a horsepower range of 180-250P.

The XW6120B10MC model was delivered to Heilongjiang Longyun Group, and the operation line was basically launched in 2014. The facelifted model is equipped with a DH10A285 diesel engine with an engine displacement of 9.6L and a maximum power of 210KW.

The B10MS double-decker sleeper model uses the DH10 diesel engine produced by Volvo Bus Company with an engine displacement of 9.6L and an engine power of 210KW. More than 10 years ago, this model was used in many medium and long-distance passenger transport lines with a length of more than 1,000 kilometers.