MCV Bus and Coach is an Egyptian manufacturer of bus bodies founded in 2002 when Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles bought some of the design rights of defunct English bus builder

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."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" ''

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History

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bodies on

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s for English operator Warrington Borough Transport in early 2003. However TransBus subsequently decided not to make the Dart chassis available to other bodybuilders resulting in the superseding MCV Stirling appearing on the

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14.220 chassis. This was in turn succeeded by the MCV Evolution in 2005 that has been built on various chassis from

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, MAN,

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. MCV has also built double deck bodies with the DD102, DD103 and EvoSeti. The latter has been purchased in sizeable numbers by

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operators

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and

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.MCV continues to march on with EvoSeti
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Current models

* MCV Evolution 2 (2011–present) * MCV Evora (2018–present) *

MCV EvoSeti The MCV EvoSeti (stylised as eVoSeti) is a low-floor double-decker bus body built by MCV Bus & Coach as a replacement for the MCV DD103. It was unveiled in May 2015. Description The EvoSeti is built on the Volvo B5TL and Volvo B5LH 2-axle cha ...

(2015–present) *

MCV EvoTor The MCV EvoTor (stylised as ''eVoTor''; internal designation ''MCV 523'') is a model of coach bodywork produced by Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) on Volvo B11R chassis since 2018, mainly for the United Kingdom and Ireland market. The fir ...

(2018–present)

Former models

* MCV Capital (2003) * MCV DD102 (2014) *

MCV DD103 The MCV DD103 is a low-floor double-decker bus body built by MCV Bus and Coach built on the Volvo B9TL chassis. Most of them are built as open top variants instead of closed top buses. The design is based on the ComfortDelGro Engineering ( ...

(2011–2014) *

MCV Ego MCV Ego is a minibus built by MCV Bus & Coach, unveiled at ''Coach and Bus Live 2005''. Based on the Irisbus LoGo chassis, it is a low-floor minibus, for a market to replace the older step entrance minibuses with 1 step or 2 steps. It was laun ...

(2006–2007) * MCV Evolution (2003–2014) * MCV Stirling (2003–2005)

References

External links

{{Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) Bus manufacturers of Egypt Egyptian companies established in 2002 Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2002