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Post by grahamk748 on Jan 30, 2020 7:36:13 GMT
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Post by galwhv69 on Jan 30, 2020 7:38:35 GMT
What the heck is that bus livery?!
The coach looks alright though
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Post by Pilot on Jan 30, 2020 10:26:20 GMT
I didnd't wanna use this word, but it's ugly lol. Single decker seems ok just because it's not overcomplicated with different colors.
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Post by vjaska on Jan 30, 2020 13:01:22 GMT
They're swapping out what they currently have for that - backwards step if you ask me. |
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Post by danorak on Jan 30, 2020 19:33:11 GMT
Curiously insipid. I'm sure Mr Stenning does not approve!
EDIT - I wanted to avoid a kneejerk 'this is terrible' reaction, but... this *is* terrible. The double decker looks like a small Midlands independent has got a couple of vehicles from dealer stock and slapped a few vinyls over them. The coach screams 'school service'. There's nothing about this that says quality or, to coin a phrase, 'creating desire'.
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 31, 2020 19:27:19 GMT
In my area some routes have varied colours in the Stagecoach house style as route-branding (the Hop routes 2, 12, 22 and 122). Does all that disappear now?
I also suppose that the buses on the Gold route will no longer be, er, gold.
Not a fan, as you might guess. The coach looks like a driver trainer, not an upmarket interurban service.
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Post by busman on Feb 1, 2020 11:17:07 GMT
I don’t think the liveries look too bad. I particularly like how Stagecoach have classified their services into 3 groups and aligned a single livery to each group. Of course, this also standardises their fleet outside of London and enables vehicles to be transferred more readily across the country reducing costs needed for rebranding. As someone else mentioned the outstanding Stagecoach Gold livery looks like it could be on its way out. Personally I would have gone with that livery for the long distance services group, but I’m guessing that yellow was cheaper! Meanwhile in London, buses can be any colour as long as its red 😉
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Post by vjaska on Feb 1, 2020 12:59:55 GMT
I don’t think the liveries look too bad. I particularly like how Stagecoach have classified their services into 3 groups and aligned a single livery to each group. Of course, this also standardises their fleet outside of London and enables vehicles to be transferred more readily across the country reducing costs needed for rebranding. As someone else mentioned the outstanding Stagecoach Gold livery looks like it could be on its way out. Personally I would have gone with that livery for the long distance services group, but I’m guessing that yellow was cheaper! Meanwhile in London, buses can be any colour as long as its red 😉 But as already mentioned, it’s not as easy to class them into three groups as a number of the routes overlap between the categories so rather than making it clearer, it’s actually making it more confusing. The fleet is already standardised as they have a national livery which already allows easy transfer of buses anyway - these new liveries can’t be a substitute for branding. If they were replacing London 100% red with this, then it would be an upgrade but only because of how dull 100% red is to begin with rather than how good these liveries are - the national Stagecoach livery still looks very modern - “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” seems very apt here. |
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