[Highway Run] FZ5736 on NT GMB Route 26 - Toyota Coaster (7th Generation, LPG)

Описание: 豐田Coaster是一款由豐田汽車公司出產的小型及中型巴士車款，現時在香港道路上隨處可見。所有香港公共小巴營辦商，以及部份旅遊巴士、校巴、保姆車公司，以至香港政府多個部門均有採用這車款，而九龍巴士及九廣鐵路公司亦曾購入這車型，形成「一廠獨大」的局面，以致2016年開始有評論質疑運輸署政策偏袒個別汽車生產商。

自三菱於1983年率先推出空調小巴Rosa後，豐田亦不敢怠慢，附設空調的Coaster於1984年面世，為求於香港小巴這個大市場爭一席位。空調小巴甫推出便極受歡迎，各小巴營辦商紛紛棄用當年大行其道但不設空調的日產Echo小巴，轉投空調小巴陣營。經過多年汰弱留強，豐田Coaster憑藉高可靠性以及維修經濟性等優點成功得到本地市場青睞。近年亦有不少中國巴士製造商抄襲豐田Coaster的車身設計。

針對香港空氣污染問題日益嚴重，環保署與運輸署聯手於2000年開始推行另類燃料小型巴士試驗計劃，旨在研究另類燃料小巴的可靠程度，從而逐步淘汰舊款柴油小巴，減低整體碳排放。參與是次計劃的小巴生產商有四間，共派出15輛另類燃料小巴作為測試，其中包括8輛石油氣版本豐田Coaster。經過一連串測試，最終只有豐田Coaster成功登陸香港市場，奠定其在公共小巴市場的「一哥」地位。

Toyota Coaster is a small and medium-sized bus car produced by Toyota Motor Company, which can now be seen everywhere on Hong Kong roads. All Hong Kong public minibus operators, as well as some tourist buses, school buses, nanny car companies, and many departments of the Hong Kong government have adopted this model. Kowloon Bus and Kowloon-Canton Railway Company have also purchased this model, forming a "one factory-of-one" situation, so that comments have begun to question the policy bias of the Transport Department in 2016. To be a private car manufacturer.

Since Mitsubishi took the lead in launching the air-conditioned minibus Rosa in 1983, Toyota did not dare to neglect it. The coaster with air conditioning was launched in 1984 to compete for a seat in the big market of Hong Kong minibus. The launch of air-conditioning minibus is very popular. The minibus operators have abandoned the Nissan Echo minibus, which was popular but did not have air conditioning, and switched to the air-conditioned minibus camp. After years of eliminating the weak and staying strong, Toyota Coaster has been successfully favored by the local market with its high reliability and maintenance economy. In recent years, many Chinese bus manufacturers have copied the body design of Toyota Coaster.

In response to the increasingly serious air pollution problem in Hong Kong, the Environmental Protection Department and the Transport Department jointly began to implement the alternative fuel minibus pilot program in 2000, aiming to study the reliability of alternative fuel minibuses, so as to phase out old diesel minibuses and reduce overall carbon emissions. There are four minibus manufacturers participating in the plan, sending a total of 15 alternative fuel minibuses for testing, including 8 LPG versions of Toyota Coaster. After a series of tests, only Toyota Coaster successfully landed in the Hong Kong market, establishing its "one brother" position in the public minibus market.

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