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In the early 2000s, the California plant further diversified into the heavy-duty transit market, introducing the mid-size E-Z Rider and full-size Axess bus, which are marketed to major municipal fleet operators. In 2020, the Kansas-based cutaway bus manufacturing business was spun off as ElDorado and sold to Forest River.
Since 2008, Mid Bus products are re-badged Collins models. Starcraft Bus: 1997 2020 Goshen, Indiana: Starcraft Bus is a division of Forest River, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company. No longer producing school buses. U.S. Bus Corporation: 1995 2007 Suffern, New York: Producer of Type A buses in 1990s and early 2000s. Type C/D-only manufacturers
The company combined with National Coach Corporation, a California-based builder of transit buses in 1991 to become El Dorado National–Kansas and El Dorado National–California. The combined El Dorado National became one of the light-duty and mid-size buses for the airport/hotel/rental car shuttle bus markets and local transit operators with ...
Forest River, Inc. was founded in 1996 by Peter Liegl [2] after purchasing certain assets of Cobra Industries, [3] where CEO Peter Liegl worked from 1985 to 1993. The company started by manufacturing tent campers, travel trailers, fifth wheels, and park models under the model lines Salem, Sierra, Sandpiper, Wildwood, Rockwood, Flagstaff, Summit, and Quailridge.
Champion Bus is a bus manufacturer owned by Forest River of Elkhart, Indiana, United States. It was formerly owned by Thor Industries of Imlay City, Michigan, United States. ASV purchased it from Thor in August 2013. [1] Champion acquired the Federal Coach bus marque from Forest River in 2013. [2]
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The company reached an agreement to sell Collins to Forest River for $303 million. [18] In 2023 Collins launched an all-electric school bus using the Ford E-Transit chassis, The first ever battery electric Ford Transit School bus with access for 25 students, a wheelchair lift is also an option to allow handicapped riders.
In January 2018, REV Group acquired California-based Lance Camper. Lance was founded in 1965 and manufactures truck campers and towable RVs. [ 21 ] REV Group announced its acquisition of Spartan ER, a subsidiary of Spartan Motors , in February 2020. [ 22 ]