"200 thousand kilometers in 2 years" guaranteed for Zonda A9 Series Bus.

On March, 13th, with the unveiling of the new model of Zonda A9 series Bus at Busworld Asia, Xu Liankuan, President of Zonda Group announced the formal initiation of "220 Project" that is to strive for excellent bus quality in cooperation with Weicai Power. Zonda Bus takes the initiative to guarantee "200 thousand kilometers in 2 years" for Zonda A9 Bus, creating a new record of guaranteed mileage of domestic-produced bus. Present at the release conference were Liu Xianduo, General Sales Manager of Weicai Power, Zhuang Xinbao, President Assistant of Zonda Group, Yang Wenyan, GM of Zonda Bus Distribution Co., Ltd, customer representatives and the Medias.   

So far, a majority of domestic bus enterprises guarantee "30 thousand kilometers in half a year" for their buses, and a few of enterprises upgrade to "100 thousand kilometers in 1 year". According to senior insiders of the industry, the bus enterprises in our country now deliver the homogenized products that comprise off-the-shelf assembly parts, so it makes no difference to guaranteed mileage. For Zonda Bus upgrading guaranteed mileage from "100 thousand kilometers in 1 year" to "200 thousand kilometers in 2 years", it was said that the movement of Zonda Bus is just a way of promotion at the cost of loss. However, Xu Liankuan, President of Zonda Bus said the dependable performance of Zonda Bus A9 is a key to "220 Project".

Since the launch of Zonda A9 series Bus, it broke into top bus market with batch production in the same year. In 2006, 13.7-meter oversized highway bus of Zonda A9 series Bus ranked first in domestic oversized highway bus market on sales volume. Xu Liankuan said, "Zonda Bus A9 has occupied a leading position in oversized luxury bus market just for several years, which mainly attributes to the dependable performance. What¡¯s more, according to the monitoring to the practical operation of A9 series in recent two years, we find that few of A9 series are repaired in two years since they are bought. It drives the continuous increase of customer satisfaction to Zonda A9 Bus.

As a matter of fact, what encourages Zonda Bus to make breakthrough in guaranteed mileage is just the highly dependable performance and lower repair rate of Zonda A9 Bus in practical operation. Statistics shows that the luxury buses running on trunk roads especially highways have been bought for three years at most on average. Sequentially, they turn to run on branch lines or are resold. However, the warranty policy of "100 thousand kilometers in one year" that is favored by a majority of bus enterprises is far from relieving customers. With the fiercer competition in bus transportation industry, how to reduce maintenance cost after warranty period becomes a concern. The worry of customers and the dependable performance of Zonda A9 Bus in practical operation impel Zonda Bus to come up with "220" warranty policy firstly. Zonda Bus believes advocating super -long warranty period in bus industry can relieve customers and more importantly significantly save their maintenance costs.
 
Before initiating "220 Project", Zonda Bus has promised "the beam of Zonda luxury bus can be guaranteed for up to 10 years" as a pioneer. Depending on rich technical experience and long-term verification in practical operation, especially the breakthrough made on beam improvement last year, Zonda Bus uses special bus beam materials and adopts integral body technology to balance the forces on bus through finite element analysis, reinforced and widened beam, axle with large carrying capacity and suspension system as well as enclosed ring body structure. Zonda Bus ultimately solves the beam problems such as breaking, cracking and body distortion.

If the process from the beginning of Zonda luxury bus to the promise of "beam of luxury bus guaranteed for 10 years" witnesses the chassis quality leap of Zonda Bus, the process from "beam of luxury bus guaranteed for 10 years" to "200 thousand kilometers in 2 years" witnesses its integrated quality leap.

Without doubt, the initiation of "220 Project" for Zonda Bus A9 will benefit transportation enterprises a lot and hit domestic bus industry. The market change resulted deserves our attention.