(13 Jan 2014, 6:17 pm)Dan wrote If I am correct, the bus arrived around the date of Wednesday 4th December 2013.
I went out for it on Saturday 14th, and it wasn't out - guessing it was either off while being prepped to return or it had already left.
It's not as if Arriva can actually get a good idea for how the bus performed in just a few days either... I'm sure there were some faults with the Streetlite Max demonstrator vehicle GNE had which developed after a few months in service. How do Arriva know the Versa won't have troubles after a few months?
Now with "Courtney Buses" (again for a two week trial period) as seen here.
EDIT: Ooops, Scott beat me to it!
Arriva will have a good idea from operating Optare Versa's in other parts of the country though. Let's not forget its not the first Versa that ANE have had on demonstration in recent times either... YJ57EHU was the last one, now with TM Travel (though recently toasted!).