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DAF intensifies its UK coach sales drive
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)111PETITION in Britain's avy coach market will inIndy next year, with DAF rowing its weight behind a 0-vehicle assault in the ming months.
As reported in last week's VI, the assault is being led by e MB200 DKTL, a 251bhp id-engined chassis powered • the 11.6-litre turbocharged K M 1160 engine.
This has been developed )m the naturally aspirated B200 DKL, of which over ro dozen have been sold in itain, and comes in 11 and m lengths.
It is fitted as standard with a 7 S6-80 six-speed .nchromesh gearbox and V-80 two-speed splitter, and Ls parabolic leaf-spring susmsion with controlled rdraulic damping.
a the drawing board
The company is importing .5 MB200 DKLs and DKTLs hich are aimed at the same arkets as the Volvo B58 and yla.nd Leopard. Its activities ay add impetus to Leyland's 'in high-performance coach 'oject, the B43 Leopard Mark .vo, which has been on the Sawing board for some time. But DAF is going one steep xther by bringing 25 SB2000 HU rear-engined chassis into itain for next season in an .tempt to wean operators on 'Continental practices.
This 11.72m semi-integral lassis shares the MB200's arbox, rear axle, and sus?,nsion, but has a 230bhp vercal DHU 825 8.25-litre large-cooled engine.
At 4820 kg, the SB2000 is 590 lighter than the MB200, and DAF aims to sell it for at least £1000 less than the £20,000 MB200. It is also cheaper and easier to build than the mid• engined model.
This probably explains why DAF is keen to make a sizeable splash with the rear-engined coach, but it must overcome considerable British resistance, to anything other than mid-engines for heavy coach work., But spokesman for the company told CM last week that they consider non-integral vehicles to be an outdated concept, and pointed to the superior luggage accommodation which rear-engined coaches afford.
Plaxton is the only British bodybuilder prepared to build on DAEs at present, and is bodying demonstrators of both types, at least one of which is expected to appear at next month's Scottish Motor Show.
Van Hool will also meet British customers' requirements from its Antwerp factory in Belgium.
After-sales service in Britain hinges around the company's DAFaid service which is supported by the parts distribution centre at Eindhoven in Holland.
• Alan Millar