How many Prevost coaches are out there?

[Irish 68]

Does anyone know how many Prevost coaches are made each year and when they were first made?

[garyde]

Irish 68. Are you refering to Prevost Conversions for Private use? Prevost makes a lot of different types of buses for Commercial , Conversion, Entertainment , & Corporate. I remember the Canadian Company strted with a wood frame Coach back in the 30's or 40's. You can go to their Website and check it out. Gary

[Joe Cannarozzi]

How many a year from quality converters, mabye 100 combined.

[Joe Cannarozzi]

Irish

Just called a fellow, my salesman Bob Dingle, who told me that Prevo builds more busses for motorhomes than charters every year. Currently 160 a year for motorhome, most get converted but some fall through the cracks.

He wasn't sure on how many less charters come out, guessed mabye 125 or so.

Would you be interested in his #?:rolleyes:

[Petervs]

I was told that Prevost builds about 1100 chassis a year. That is 4 a working day. Compare that to a car assembly line at 60 per hour!

Of those, about 300 become motorhomes. The rest become charter buses and special use coaches like entertainer or corporate coaches. Remember, they sell them all over the world.

Marathon is the biggest converter, they do 80 per year. Liberty is number 2 at maybe 50? All the others add up to the rest.

Prevost has been doing that fairly steady since around 1990 say. So that is 17 years worth at say 250 per year or 4250 motorhomes. Some percentage of those are not in USA and Canada, some have been wrecked or out of service, etc. so my guess is there are 3000 active Prevost motorhomes in use.

It is an elite group, but there is room for POG membership growth.

My friend is presently at the Winnebago factory in Fort Dodge, Iowa having his roof reinstalled ( it blew off in a Colorado windstorm) and that one plant alone builds 20,000 units a year!

[jack14r]

here are the numbers i have confirmed
marathon 68
liberty 28
vantari about 25
millennium about 8
country coach ?
legendary ?
american carriage ?
amadas coach ?

correct my # if they are wrong,and i am curious about the last 4,i do not think that prevost builds more than 180 for the motorhome (as they term it) market.
jack

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Not recognized in any of the discussions is the number of entertainer shells produced.

If the return from POG is an indicator Prevost manufactures a large number of the shells for that industry.

[Joe Cannarozzi]

Jon what do you mean when you say, if the return from POG is an indicator?

[JIM CHALOUPKA]

Jon what do you mean when you say, if the return from POG is an indicator?

Joe, I think the implication of the remark is that Jon saw quite a few Entertainer Coaches on his way home from POG-3. I saw one in the Kerrville Walmart parking lot.
:eek: JIM

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Jim is correct Joe. We travelled about 1200 miles to get home and except for Roger we saw one other MH conversion.

But in the two days of travel we saw at least 10 entertainer coaches. The difference in numbers may be related to the fact that the entertainer coaches also get ten times the use.

[Irish 68]

Thank you very much for the information. It's quite helpful in understanding the group and the exclusivity.

[Gary & Peggy Stevens]

Hey Irish68, where have you been? We been looking for you. Did you find a bus yet? You should have come over to Kerrville, TX for the POG III rally, what a hoot. Great people, great food, grrrrreat fun.

Gary S

[mcirco]

To add to Jack's numbers - I talked with the Jay Howard CEO of Country Coach on the phone - He told me they are averaging 17 Prevost Conversions a year and are ramping up to about 20. They are all XL II but he is considering a H3 version. Hope this helps.

[jack14r]

I left out Parliament,anyone know their production numbers?jack

[Coloradobus]

Prior to the current Country Coach busses being made, the "LO series", they have made around 600 total coaches. The "Sixty Thousand" series numbers beginning with 60001, ending with 60492. Not all these coaches were XL's, there were 6 Xl's with 2 slides and 8 were H3-45's with and without slides. There were other earlier busses converted using other numbers.