(12 Feb 2017, 1:32 pm)Michael wrote Looking at the photo's of the interior and comments on Jimmi's photo, it looks/sounds really unconformable, unfortunately i won't have a chance of riding it, due to work.
Jimmi's photo can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127079988@...ateposted/
Credit to Jimmi.
I had a ride on it from Newcastle to Crook yesterday afternoon and let me tell you, those seats are really uncomfortable.
The thing is though, I actually thought it wasn't too bad a bus really, it performed alright (seemed to be doing around 55mph on the A1(M) and A167, didn't get much idea of its performance on hills. The interior is a bit drab, pretty much all grey and silver throughout. One intresting feature is the interior lights would be really bright when the doors were open but would dim when the doors closed.
For some reason it reminded me of Arriva's EcoCitys (especially 4812/4813) just with the interior seemingly being fairly similar. I actually didn't mind it, apart from the crap seats. I don't think it's a particularly good looking bus though IMO. I was expecting it to be much worse juding by the comments some enthusiasts made when it was on trial with Yourbus.