Prevost chassis

[cody]

I have the compelling urge to ask yet another dumb question, I read on another forum a Vogue owner said that their coach is a true bus because their chassis is made by prevost, I thought that was interesting, can anyone give me any information on this? I didn't know that prevost made and sold chassis to other companies.

[luvrbus]

Cody, the guy is try to pull somebody's leg Vogue made their own chassis for years in Pryor OK for the pushers but Mitchel did convert a lot of Prevost buses (I had one)before he sold to Featherlite.  I think the gas rig chassis were made by Spartan but not for sure    good luck

[tekebird]

I have no idea on the validity of Prevost making Vogue chassis but I have never seen anything about it elsewhere.

With that said just because a bus manufacture builds a chassis means nothing as to if it is a real bus or not.

most subcontracted products are built to the buyers specs not the manufacturers.

Even looking at some of the ads in FMCA which show bus like structure, if compared to real coaches they have about 1/2 the structure

[cody]

I know, anyone can call what they want a bus, even allegro has one they call a bus.  I was just reading and ran accross it and thought I'd ask the real experts.

[HighTechRedneck]

From the Prevost website it appears that the closest they come to that is conversion shells.  Then looking at this dealer's use of the term chassis lends to the idea that some converters/dealers/customers may use the term chassis rather loosely to refer to a conversion shell.

[luvrbus]

Cody, the only bus manufacture I know that sells the chassis only is Scania but never saw one used in a motor home.fwiw the chassis Vogue built was a ok it had steerable tags, abs disks brakes and anything that the Prevost had it was built just like a Newell which was made not far from Pryor in Miami Ok   good luck

[Busted Knuckle]

Hmmm, sounds fishy to me! But I lean toward NOT! After all as I said before "If yer cat had kittens in an old oven on the back porch, ya wouldn't call 'm biscuits would ya?"     BK   

[TomCat]

Hmmm, sounds fishy to me! But I lean toward NOT! After all as I said before "If yer cat had kittens in an old oven on the back porch, ya wouldn't call 'm biscuits would ya?"     BK   

Yeah, but you could call 'em biscuit heads! 

Jay
87 SaftLiner

[Sojourner]

Funny, Funny, Funny, Funny, Funny, LOL

[Jeremy]

Cody, the only bus manufacture I know that sells the chassis only is Scania but never saw one used in a motor home.fwiw the chassis Vogue built was a ok it had steerable tags, abs disks brakes and anything that the Prevost had it was built just like a Newell which was made not far from Pryor in Miami Ok   good luck

I think most, if not all, the European manufacturers will sell chassis-only - in fact the chassis was usually the only bit they made as the bus & coach building industry here has traditionally been based upon seperate body and chassis builders. Hence I have a Bedford Plaxton, but it could equally well have been a Volvo Plaxton, DAF Plaxton, MAN Plaxton etc. Nowadays it is probably not quite such a free-for-all as chassis manufacturers will often have tied relationships with one main bodybuilder, and many buses have a monocoque structure anyway so there is no seperate chassis.

Volvo chassis are used under a very large number of buses and coaches here - so much so that the chassis designations (B10M, B12M etc) are very well known and included in the badging on the bus. However, (apart from their Prevost division obviously) I have never heard of even a Volvo chassis being used under a motorhome, simply because to all intents and purposes there is no A Class motorhome industry in Europe.

Jeremy

[Len Silva]

Vogue did do bus conversions in the 90's before joining Featherlite.  Here's one:  http://www.eaglespridervsales.com/eaglespride9_037.htm

The Vogue Prima Vista that I own was made. by Crown.  This is one coach that is not a S&S.

[luvrbus]

Len, you have a Vogue that was built before  Mitchell bought the co and probably built in CA solid as a rock (he did finish a few that were in the plant) ,the Vogue V  he built from the ground up was a good coach but could not compete with Newell and  Foretravel for what ever reasons.The Mitchell family still converts Prevost under the Parliament name in Fl  

Jeremy , the only bus chaissis I have seen in the USA have been Scania going to a place to build some kind of command center on but there are probably more

[Hartley]

Featherlite/ Vantare bought Vogue and did warranty work on the last ones. The contents of the Vogue factories was shipped to the Florida facility as was the name.
The coaches built during the transition were named Vogue but were actually built with Prevost Shells, On the same line as Vantare coaches side by side.
The Vogue name was discontinued later. The balance of parts left over for the Vogue line were disposed of after years in storage.

Vantare is the sole survivor of the residuals of the Vogue line.
I would guess that even now if you wanted a New Vogue it would be a rebadged Featherlite/Vantare built on a Prevost Conversion Shell.

I may be corrected about the details, However I had and inside man at Featherlite who told me how that all went. He passed away a couple of years ago. On several trips to the sanford facility I saw both versions of the Vogue line several years ago myself including the Vogue 5000 series.

Dave...

[luvrbus]

Dr-Dave there is still a Featherlite repair facility in Pryor and they stock parts for the Vogue there also.I stop and visit when I go through always Vogues in the park and used ones for sale.I picked up a door window for 1 last year at Pryor for a guy

[Len Silva]

And Harvey Mitchell who once owned Vogue now owns Parliament Coach in Clearwater, Florida.  It looks like the million dollar coaches are still doing well in this economy.