Orion Bus Industries 'Orion VI': Difference between revisions

| <font color=white>'''Years of manufacture'''</font> || <font color=white>'''1995-2004'''</font>

'''[[Orion Bus Industries]] Orion VI''' (06.501) is a fully low floor 40 foot (12,192 mm), 102 inches (2,591 mm) wide bus. It was in development since 1991 and a prototype was first produced in 1993. The Orion VI was one of the first fully low floor buses built for the North American bus market. Unlike the later [[Orion Bus Industries 'Orion VII'|Orion VII]], the Orion VI was intended to have no step in the back. The full low floor allowed for easier access and an exit door to be placed at the very rear. The downside to the full low floor design was the rear wheel space became unused. Later models were built with a step up to the rear and centre exit door. The earliest versions of these buses had many difficulties. Some blamed this on what they felt was rushed production by the government of Ontario, which desired a low-floor bus to be made within the province and sold within the province. In 2004, Orion ended production of the Orion VI.   

* List of known demonstrator and engineering buses.