(13 Apr 2014, 12:46 pm)tyresmoke wrote Not sure on the "very few" breakdowns and good reliability. Megabus have been suffering from low availability over the last few months (just see how many times the M12 has been covered from Newcastle!) and that's on a far less intensive service than the X9/X10 are!
I reckon we're just going to have to live with the fact that nothing sustainable is available and they're going to have to make the best of what they've got. Buying new double decks every few years may turn out to be the best idea but that is expensive over time.
Or Volvo could simply tell Brussels to stick it where the sun doesn't shine and stick a D10-245 lump with a high gearing ratio ZF gearbox in a Gemini 3. Now that would be a bus and a half. I could just imagine a D10-245 in a Gemini 3 screaming and thundering away up and down the A19. The sound and feeling would be immense.