THE WINNERS

Preceeding the Busworld Asia bus exhibition was again the Asia Coach Week, an event where he youngest generation of Chinese buses is compared with a worldwide benchmark by an international jury. This jury,  with members from Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and China, awarded the following coach competitors.

The prize for the Coach Builder of the Year was for the Higer Bus Company

Higer belongs to the companies that has reached the highest level of coachbuilding by combining its own skills and creativity with the advantages pf joining forces with a strong European partner for chassis technology, where necessary. It gives them the possibility to concentrate all their efforts on improving their body building capabilities, with an extremely effective result – coaches that belong to the top of the market with regard to design and workmanship.

Authentic Chinese Coach of the Year is the Shanghai Sunlong SLK6120F6A3

Shanghai Sunlong proves that the Chinese bus industry is able to build a bus that can  compete on the world market with the finest available regarding design, construction and finish. Technologically the bus also reaches to a high level. Special attention was given to the safety of its passengers leading to good ideas like soft padding on the seatbacks, preventing head injury in an accident. A strong concept that opens the view to the next generation of Chinese coaches.

Luxurious Coach of the Year became the Higer KLQ6147S.Building a good doubledecker coach requires a lot of skill from a coach manufacturer, because of the specific construction requirements of such a vehicle and due to the fact that there is only a basic formal regulation. But it also offers possibilities. Higer has used these possibilities very efficiently to create a doubledecker coach that is state-of-the-art with regard to design and construction, reaches a high technical level by using a solid European chassis concept as a basis and has a lot of attention for the safety of the passengers, leading to things like good seat belts on all seats and a rear window on the top deck with two emergency hammers.