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MCI Delivers 4 Luxury Coaches to Iowa’s Hawkeye Stages

Hawkeye Stages provides transportation services across the U.S. and Canada, operating a fleet of luxury motor coaches and charter buses.

MCI Delivers 4 Luxury Coaches to Iowa’s Hawkeye Stages

The J4500 motor coach features clean-diesel technology and a Cummins engine, which reduces particulate emissions, fuel consumption, and total cost of ownership.

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Motor Coach Industries (MCI) announced its delivery of four luxury J4500 clean-diesel 45-foot motorcoaches to Hawkeye Stages.

Hawkeye Stages provides transportation services across the U.S. and Canada, operating a fleet of luxury motorcoaches and charter buses.

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The new J4500 coaches are tailored to the Hawkeye Stages’ requirements, featuring Amaya Sigma seating with custom fabric and defender coating, an REI safety video system, an enhanced sound system, rear window, and custom graphics. By adding these customized luxury coaches to its existing fleet, Hawkeye Stages will provide customers with an improved passenger experience, while delivering reliable transportation.

“NFI continues to provide beautiful and reliable coaches to Hawkeye Stages, having delivered at least 10 vehicles to Hawkeye Stages since 1996. Through this order, MCI has once again demonstrated flexibility in meeting unique customer requirements to deliver fully customized vehicles,” said Brent Maitland, VP, private sector sales and marketing, MCI. “Hawkeye Stages’ passengers will benefit from these state-of-the-art, spacious coaches with the best-in-class legroom available in the market.”

The J4500 motor coach features clean-diesel technology and a Cummins engine, which reduces particulate emissions, fuel consumption, and total cost of ownership. MCI’s J4500 coaches also conform to 2021 Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty passenger vehicles.

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