Retirement of Original Design
On Tuesday 3 January 2012, Optare announced the end of production of the original Solo design - after some 14 years. The Optare Solo is being retired in favour of the new look 2012 Optare Solo SR for both UK and export markets.
Since its introduction in 1997, more than 4,000 of the original Solo design have entered service in the UK, including exports to the USA, Western Europe and beyond. The first vehicles which were delivered to Wilts and Dorset, now part of Go-Ahead group, continue to operate in daily passenger-carrying service and in total Optare Solos in the UK alone are estimated to have clocked up over a billion miles.
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