New Scania Touring brings peace-of-mind

The new Scania Touring 57-seater bus has been engineered to meet the needs of Scania’s Australian customers for a ready-built vehicle with a single point-of-contact for all aspects of servicing and maintenance over its lifecycle.

Scania says the Touring is a very safe bus. It has an all-steel 12.3 metre body and it exceeds all the requirements of the European rollover test.

Scania Touring comes standard with ABS, EBS and electronic stability control.

It can also be optioned up with a raft of the latest active safety features, such as advanced emergency braking, adaptive cruise control (Opticruise only) and lane departure warning.

The Scania Touring comes to Australia in two-axle configuration. The standard powertrain is Scania’s Euro 6, 9-litre five-cylinder engine, driving through the Scania Opticruise automated gear change transmission, complete with Scania Retarder, or via a ZF six-speed push-button hydraulic transmission.

The coach is assembled in a dedicated Scania facility in China, giving Scania full control of manufacturing and quality.

The Touring shares many of the advantages of the Scania-Higer A 30, sold in Australia over the past decade, but, according to Scania, the new Touring is bigger and better.

It delivers greater luggage space, a full nine cubic metres, thanks to deep bins under the floor, accessed by pantograph doors each side that make it a true touring vehicle, in addition to its daily role as a school and charter bus.

The Touring has been offered in global markets for some time, and has been especially successful in Europe, Africa and Asia as well as the UK. It is robust, reliable and has very predictable running costs.

As a result of the change in the permissible GVM for two-axle coaches in Australia, Scania has been able to construct a business case for offering the Touring as an 18-tonne GVM 57-seater at a compliant width of 2.5 m and a height of 3.8 m.

As with the Scania-Higer A30, the Scania Touring can be fitted with 49, 53 or 57 seats (plus driver) on arrival in Australia, to the operator’s specification.

Scania aims to keep stock on the ground to enable very fast order-to-delivery times, as has been the case with the successful Scania-Higer A30 programme.

Key benefits for operators are the single point of contact for sales, service and replacement parts, routine maintenance and repairs, all available via Scania’s nationwide network of wholly-owned branches and 46 service independent authorised service dealers.

The Scania Touring is offered with a five-year structure and paint warranty, 12 months factory warranty on the chassis and a two-year factory warranty on the driveline. Every vehicle is also supplied with a Scania driver training session and four-years of complimentary vehicle monitoring.

“The Scania Touring has been proven in service around the world as a very durable and satisfying product, and our customers enjoy bumper-to-bumper Scania quality and reliability,” said Julian Gurney, National Sales Director, Bus and Coach Scania Australia.

“The Scania Touring is highly cost-effective to run, and supplies will be readily available. It can be also optioned with the latest safety features and can be tailored to meet operators’ specific requirements.

“Consistent with our strategy of driving the shift towards a sustainable transport future, we are offering a 360hp five-cylinder engine version in Euro 6 compliance mated to a ZF six-speed automatic transmission, or eight-speed Opticruise automated gearbox.

“Customers requiring greater torque from a larger capacity engine can option the 360 hp, Euro 5, 13-litre, six-cylinder engine mated to an eight-speed Scania Opticruise automated gearbox, or for the pinnacle of power, there is a 410hp, Euro 6, 13-litre six-cylinder engine with 2150Nm of torque, mated to the eight-speed Scania Opticruise,” Julian said.

The Scania Touring went on sale on October 6 with deliveries available before the end of 2018.