The Optare MetroRider is a midibus that Optare built between 1989 and 2000. Optare based the design on the Metro Cammell Weymann Metrorider after buying the rights when MCW decided to stop production, and launched it in November 1989. It was an integral bus, with chassis and body built as one structure, and was Optare first venture into fully integral manufacturing. It became the mainstay of Optare midibus and minibus offer until the low-floor Solo arrived. A total of 1,159 were produced before the Solo succeeded it in 2000. Four electric MetroRiders went to the Oxford Bus Company in 1993 and two compressed natural gas versions went to Stagecoach Cambus in 1996, and kits were sold abroad, for example in Malaysia.
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It was launched in November 1989
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before it was succeeded by the Optare Solo in 2000
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is a midibus
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Four electric MetroRiders were sold to the Oxford Bus Company in 1993
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two compressed natural gas powered versions were sold to Stagecoach Cambus in 1996
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with 1,159 produced before it was succeeded by the Optare Solo in 2000
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manufactured by Optare
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