Does anyone know how many Prevost coaches are made each year and when they were first made?
Does anyone know how many Prevost coaches are made each year and when they were first made?
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
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Gary & Lise Deinhard, 2003 Elegant Lady Liberty, Dbl slide
How many a year from quality converters, mabye 100 combined.
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 #?
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!
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
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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.
Jon what do you mean when you say, if the return from POG is an indicator?
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.