SMRT Buses trials Zhongtong Bus?

• TIB 781 L

  17 Sep 10, 23:03

  Originally posted by dan474:

  
  thks, hope it'll not be gone.... i havent ride on tat bus... hope it'll go to WLDEP or KJDEP...

  
  But it is SMRT's choice, Not ours, too bad it has to go :(

  WLDEP don't intend to take in new buses at the moment though.

• sir_peanuts

  18 Sep 10, 00:13

  it's better looking than the yutong. moments like this make me ponder if one day majority of buses will become MIC.

• SBS BUSES LOVER

  18 Sep 10, 18:15

  Alot of private companies these days are purchasing Higer , Kinglong , Foton & Sunlong buses ... if you notice . esp alot of Kinglong buses on the roads these days ...

   

  so its not a surprise that sbs or smrt decide to buy them .. king long is not bad IMO . . and my observation is that it comes with tinted windows. have riden on a kinglong before. quiet engine ..

   

  there are a few kinglong SDs roaming around for certain companies .. with EDS too ..

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 18:21

  pls change topic name to SMRT trials King Long Hybrid bus.

• fireice rox

  18 Sep 10, 18:47

  Originally posted by dan474:

  pls change topic name to SMRT trials King Long Hybrid bus.

  The bus is Zhongtong, not King Long

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 21:39

  Originally posted by fireice rox:

  The bus is Zhongtong, not King Long

  
  The bus is King Long, not Zhongtong

  SMRT never aquirred a Zhongtong, only a King Long.

  The proofs;

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMRT_Buses
  
  http://singaporebuspage.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/smrt-brickston-likely-to-run-singapores-first-hybrid-buses/

• fireice rox

  18 Sep 10, 22:02

  Originally posted by dan474:

  
  The bus is King Long, not Zhongtong

  SMRT never aquirred a Zhongtong, only a King Long.

  The proofs;

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMRT_Buses
  
  http://singaporebuspage.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/smrt-brickston-likely-to-run-singapores-first-hybrid-buses/

  The bus TS posted is Zhongtong lah. Its not confirmed whether SMRT will trial the King Long hybrid bus.

• SMB66X

  18 Sep 10, 22:05

  Originally posted by dan474:

  
  The bus is King Long, not Zhongtong

  SMRT never aquirred a Zhongtong, only a King Long.

  The proofs;

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMRT_Buses
  
  http://singaporebuspage.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/smrt-brickston-likely-to-run-singapores-first-hybrid-buses/

  King Long would be SMB137A. Source(of it being a SMRT buses) is the link you had given in the previous post. For Zhongtong, it would be either SMB138Y(source is the picture) or after the Citaro. SMB135E is now in the mist of deciding to stay or to leave. If the bus leaves, touchwood, SMB135E will not be used for other buses.

• SMB66X

  18 Sep 10, 22:09

  Originally posted by SMB66X:

  King Long would be SMB137A. Source(of it being a SMRT buses) is the link you had given in the previous post. For Zhongtong, it would be either SMB138Y(source is the picture) or after the Citaro. SMB135E is now in the mist of deciding to stay or to leave. If the bus leaves, touchwood, SMB135E will not be used for other buses.

  The KingLong Bus websites showed this : 
  http://www.king-long.com.sg/prod_02.html#XMQ6121K

  
  Source : http://www.king-long.com.sg/prod_02.html#XMQ6121K
  Picture is under the rights of KingLong, I just copy and paste with a source.

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 22:13

  Originally posted by SMB66X:

  King Long would be SMB137A. Source(of it being a SMRT buses) is the link you had given in the previous post. For Zhongtong, it would be either SMB138Y(source is the picture) or after the Citaro. SMB135E is now in the mist of deciding to stay or to leave. If the bus leaves, touchwood, SMB135E will not be used for other buses.

  
  but i nvr heard of SMRT aquirring a Zhongtong.

• SMB66X

  18 Sep 10, 22:15

  Originally posted by dan474:

  
  but i nvr heard of SMRT aquirring a Zhongtong.

  You never heard doesn't mean it would be fake...

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 22:18

  Originally posted by SMB66X:

  The KingLong Bus websites showed this : 
  http://www.king-long.com.sg/prod_02.html#XMQ6121K

  
  Source : http://www.king-long.com.sg/prod_02.html#XMQ6121K
  Picture is under the rights of KingLong, I just copy and paste with a source.

  YOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! theres a nissan diesel at the windscreen!!!!!!!

• SMB66X

  18 Sep 10, 22:22

  Originally posted by dan474:

  YOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! theres a nissan diesel at the windscreen!!!!!!!

  Could be at WLDEP.

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 22:29

  Originally posted by SMB66X:

  The KingLong Bus websites showed this : 
  http://www.king-long.com.sg/prod_02.html#XMQ6121K

  
  Source : http://www.king-long.com.sg/prod_02.html#XMQ6121K
  Picture is under the rights of KingLong, I just copy and paste with a source.

  from wat i see:

  1) The exit door is not the plug/swing out type.
  2) 2 PIW are..
  3) Plastic handles.
  4) Obviously, some new type of seats probably by King Long (or maybe Zhongtong).
  5) Sooo many bells.
  6) Bus stopping lights is a "STOP" instead of "BUS STOPPING".
  7) Mildly tinted windows.
  8) Doesn't have the 4 seats facing each other
  *9) More legroom.
  10) 30 seats.
  11) Seats are blue and red in colour.
  12) A clock

  *Can't really confirm

• sgbuses

  18 Sep 10, 22:41

  Looking at the door handles and front seating arrangement of both photos, it's an easy conclusion that we're getting BOTH King Long Hybrid and Zhongtong...

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 22:50

  Originally posted by sgbuses:

  Looking at the door handles and front seating arrangement of both photos, it's an easy conclusion that we're getting BOTH King Long Hybrid and Zhongtong...

  
  wat do you mean BOTH photos?

• SMB66X

  18 Sep 10, 22:50

  Originally posted by sgbuses:

  Looking at the door handles and front seating arrangement of both photos, it's an easy conclusion that we're getting BOTH King Long Hybrid and Zhongtong...

  The Ez-link card handle already standing by....  So KingLong + ZhongTong - Yutong = in the future?

• sgbuses

  18 Sep 10, 22:52

  Originally posted by dan474:

  
  wat do you mean BOTH photos?

  http://sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/411047#post_9992943

  http://sgforums.com/forums/1279/topics/411047?page=2#post_9994827

• SMB66X

  18 Sep 10, 22:54

  Originally posted by Random123abc:

  Hello bus fans out there, im sorry for creating this thread as im not sure whether these have been posted before. I've no idea what bus model this is etc, im just a random browser and decided to create an account to show what i saw if there isnt any pictures about it yet. 

   

  Sorry for lousy photoshooting

  http://img230.imageshack.us/i/img0135mz.jpg/

  http://img693.imageshack.us/i/img0137f.jpg/

  http://img709.imageshack.us/i/img0139ya.jpg/

   

   

  Mixture of OC500LE, Yutong and Citaro body.

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 22:55

  OMG
  
  SBS in 2008 - Scania KUB craze

  S'pore in 2009/10 - MIC Buses CRAZE!!!!

• off_service

  18 Sep 10, 23:19

  It is quite obvious the photos on the first post of this thread is not a King Long. The badge at the front and rear of the bus is way different from how a King Long logo looks.

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 23:27

  ok, it's a Zhongtong all right. looked at their website

  http://www.zhongtongbuses.com/3-public-bus.html

• dan474

  18 Sep 10, 23:30

  n its great that SMRT chose mobitec/LAWO for their EDS, not like the Yutong

• TIB1234T

  19 Sep 10, 13:24

  Originally posted by SMB66X:

  Mixture of OC500LE, Yutong and Citaro body.

  
  The sides somhow look abit like Habits too...

• krisgage

  21 Sep 10, 10:01

  I can reconise the badge, it is zongtong! it should be this one, sunny http://www.zhongtongbuses.com/sunny-9.html