(15 Jan 2014, 7:11 pm)G-CPTN wrote The Versa is not new (2006/7), and several local operators such as GNE must have acquired examples, therefore why is Optare hawking it around?
ArrivaNorthEast had a demonstrator in 2008:- http://www.flickr.com/photos/emdjt42/451...6724137034
Was it not deemed worthy of ordering?
http://www.optare.com/images/brochures/v...ochure.pdf
Are sales falling off and are they hoping to fill their order books before they discontinue it?
Low sales and the low cost involved in hawking around a sole demonstrator at each and every end of the country for a few weeks at a time.
The thoughts crossed my mind to be honest.