Talk:Volvo B6

What are the total production numbers based on?

From before I started editing, this article seems to have very exact numbers of how many buses of each kind were built, but I don't see any source for these numbers. If they were found on BLOTW, then that is okay for what was sold on the right-hand-drive markets, but then the text should say that, and not as if it was worldwide sales. If I were to count total production, I would check the chassis numbers, as we know that they had a separate series from other chassis types.

• 005001 to 005022, B6R (Austria) = 22 (or more)
• 005101 to 006710, B6/B6LE (Irvine) = 1610
• 010001 to 010244, B6BLE (Irvine) = 244
• 010300 to 010410, B6BLE (Sweden) = 111

And let's say that a dozen or two of them never made it to be a bus, we are still way over 1950. That's substantially more than the 1400 mentioned in the article. I know that almost 80 were delivered to Norway, and of those only the 9 B6BLEs are listed (as Not built/not traced) on BLOTW. They have most likely been delivered to many other markets that we don't know.

Secondly, the B6-45 midicoach, are the numbers based on UK sales, or were they perhaps more popular on other markets? I know that Berkhof put coach bodies on some B6, but I don't know how many. Another thing is that more than a dozen of the around 70 B6/B6LE that were delivered to Norway, are registered as B6-45. I do not know if they are chassis of the "coach version" or the normal, but I do at least know that some of them are allowed with many standing passengers, and that is no coach to me. Is there a possibility that on the UK market the B6-45 was solely sold in the coach version, while it was sold as standard on other markets?

And was it announced that the B6 was fully replaced by the B6LE in 1997, or is that based on the fact that the last B6 in the BLOTW list was made in 1996? I know that two B6 that were not low floor by any means were delivered to the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen in November 1997, with chassis numbers after the last ones registered in UK that year. They could of course have been built with a high floor on a low floor chassis, but it would be a strange thing to do.

Even if it may look like it, this is not any sort of attack on the person who wrote it. I just want to know where the facts came from, so that I can test them myself. It would be really easy if I had some kind of product sheet, but I haven't been able to find any on the net so far. I was only barely able to put together the engine list from several different sources. Bergenga (talk) 00:27, 19 November 2014 (UTC)