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"Experience with a difference" - this is how I'd sum up my recent encounter with a Volvo B7R, aged 14, and with a jaw dropping 21 lakh kms on the odo. What surprised me is how the machine has weathered many a storm and is still going strong. Read on to find out more!
Rather than call a company car to travel 350km, pick me up and again take me there, I decided to do part distance by a KSRTC Volvo, and have the company car pick me up from where I was alighting. I had two options for the time of my departure - a KSRTC EV Power Plus OR a KSRTC Airavat B7R. I chose Airavat since I'd never experienced the B7R from KSRTC (have experienced the B7R from GSRTC umpteen times and also the good old Raj National Express from Surat to Nasik once). This Airavat was Shivamogga bound, and that meant old fleet (all Shivamogga bound B7Rs and B11Rs that I have seen are oldies). I was still hoping against hope to see a new one in service.
At Kempegowda Bus Terminal 2
When I reached the appointed platform at KBS Terminal2, my heart initially sank as I saw this old Airavat waiting there, but the mood began changing rather quickly.
Airavat waiting at KBS Terminal2
Rear view
Views of KBS Terminal2; rather neatly kept for a Bus Station
View of the cockpit - the front sunblind has taken a beating with time
Engine note (please listen in with headphones on).
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