SMRT Yutong bus - A discussion on China buses

• SBS3688Y

  30 Jan 09, 23:04

  the sides of the bus looks all right, but i find the back very ugly! hope the EDS is the camera-friendly type leh. anyway, good photos from us bus fans also help to boost the bus company's image mah!~~
• SBS7322B

  30 Jan 09, 23:07

  The EDS at the back very big........

• SBS3688Y

  30 Jan 09, 23:14

  Yutong on svc 621:

  

• sir_peanuts

  30 Jan 09, 23:43

  like i said... just a matter of time.

• simnatic

  31 Jan 09, 10:03

  China Buses seem much noisier than the usual buses...whenever a King Long or Yutong bus passes by, the roar of its engines seem really loud. is it just me or is it really?

• Raraken

  31 Jan 09, 12:38

  Originally posted by simnatic:

  China Buses seem much noisier than the usual buses...whenever a King Long or Yutong bus passes by, the roar of its engines seem really loud. is it just me or is it really?

  It really is very loud. Not just you. Even their midibuses are louder than our O405s

• SBS8033D

  31 Jan 09, 12:41

  Originally posted by Raraken:

  It really is very loud. Not just you. Even their midibuses are louder than our O405s

  yeah, 2 school bus yutong always pass by my house, green and pink, i buay tahan already, so loud.

• lianamaster

  31 Jan 09, 12:47

  Originally posted by SBS3688Y:

  Yutong on svc 621:

  

  Asthetics wise, it's not bad looking.

• billlmf

  31 Jan 09, 12:59

  I'm glad to see Singapore city bus operator to buy the Chinese products, I think SMRT to buy Yutong Low Floor WAB bus is the very good start~~

• billlmf

  31 Jan 09, 13:01

  Originally posted by SBS8033D:

  yeah, 2 school bus yutong always pass by my house, green and pink, i buay tahan already, so loud.

  
  I'm agree, even though in Hong Kong, the radiator sound from Yutong coach is very very noisy, I think Yutong need to improve it as well~~

• SBS7484P

  31 Jan 09, 13:37

  Originally posted by Raraken:

  It really is very loud. Not just you. Even their midibuses are louder than our O405s

  
  so now its a direct competition between the famously loud VSOs and these.

• Raraken

  31 Jan 09, 18:02

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  
  so now its a direct competition between the famously loud VSOs and these.

  I think the Yutongs will win. VSO I can't really hear them when opposite side of road. Yutongs, well, can hear them from my house.

• HKFS88

  31 Jan 09, 20:28

  Bus model looks good to me

• jayh272416

  31 Jan 09, 20:30

  Originally posted by Raraken:

  I think the Yutongs will win. VSO I can't really hear them when opposite side of road. Yutongs, well, can hear them from my house.

  
  merc i also can hear from my house. xD

• nenepokey

  31 Jan 09, 22:18

  for me i heard a Scania Strider braking outside my school, which is about 100m away from my classroom. imagine how loud is it. and also, can hear a KUB horn distinctively from my classroom as well.

• Stage

  31 Jan 09, 22:23

  at least the o405's or vso's or whatever noisy buses sound nice. i wouldn't like these yutong buses roaring like some 'mad bus'.

• Interception_7

  31 Jan 09, 22:28

  Hmm... Shldnt this kind of buses be doing the Sentosa shuttle service, which is much better? Why have China made buses for public uses while having the Volvo B12BLE which is i believe made for intercity coaches.

  SMRT gets the China buses while Sentosa got a high powered vehicle running at a snail's pace. Shldn't it be the other way round?

  Anyway, there should be a demonstrator right?

• SBS7322B

  31 Jan 09, 22:33

  Originally posted by Interception_7:

  Anyway, there should be a demonstrator right?

  As Yutong isn't undergoing mass production for that bus to be shipped to SMRT, it most likely is a demostrator in the picture.

• SBS7484P

  31 Jan 09, 22:51

  Originally posted by Raraken:

  I think the Yutongs will win. VSO I can't really hear them when opposite side of road. Yutongs, well, can hear them from my house.

  
  VSO the noise is only concentrated on the front right side of the bus, where the radiator is.

  for the yutongs, and especially the Higer buses before they merged/bought over by kinglong, the noise spreads around the whole rear portion of the bus, where the engine is.

  you should have been there when 9844Z revved its engine in hougang int last year.

  everyone in the int, incl some drivers, turned around with the "WTF WAS THAT!" face

• SBS7484P

  31 Jan 09, 22:52

  Originally posted by Interception_7:

  Hmm... Shldnt this kind of buses be doing the Sentosa shuttle service, which is much better? Why have China made buses for public uses while having the Volvo B12BLE which is i believe made for intercity coaches.

  SMRT gets the China buses while Sentosa got a high powered vehicle running at a snail's pace. Shldn't it be the other way round?

  Anyway, there should be a demonstrator right?

  
  woah sentosa has B12's!?

  if the B12's are registered under the RU plate then it isnt worth to have a 12 liter, probably 400+hp monster crawling around at a slow speed!?

• TIB930Z

  31 Jan 09, 23:01

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  
  woah sentosa has B12's!?

  if the B12's are registered under the RU plate then it isnt worth to have a 12 liter, probably 400+hp monster crawling around at a slow speed!?

  that's why using such powerful buses to be tram in Sentosa -.-

• SBS7484P

  31 Jan 09, 23:05

  Originally posted by TIB930Z:

  that's why using such powerful buses to be tram in Sentosa -.-

  
  wth

  wrong usage..

  totally wrong..

• SBS7484P

  31 Jan 09, 23:06

  even having those B7RLE in sentosa..

  also a bit too overpowered for blueline, whateverline usage eh..

• SBS7322B

  31 Jan 09, 23:09

  Red line has gotten that open top double decker bus. Probably Scania again....

• JJxJJ

  31 Jan 09, 23:11

  Originally posted by SBS3688Y:

  Yutong on svc 621:

  

  is it me or does it actually look like a dildo on wheels?