(07 Jun 2014, 9:50 am)aureolin wrote Might as well take a sledgehammer to it and ruin it quicker. Is any bus designed to be horsed up and down a dual carriageway non-stop all day? That's the role of a coach.
And the bus manufacturers know this.
Coaches are a lot more expensive, and if operators cannot buy suitable buses - they will be forced, in time, to buy coaches instead. Handy for those manufacturers who build both buses and coaches, isn't it?