No, NABI is not from Canada. Down in America someplace, but I don't know if they are manufacturing any more?
Ikarus partnered with Crown in the US and with Orion in Canada back then.
Same bus, just a name plate stuck on.
Remember the Iron Curtain? Hungarian steel from behind there went into those buses. Lots of frame rot.
And turbo lag??? wow! Ours had a 6L71T lying on its side, you mashed the throttle, waited, had a sandwich, and then you heard the tea kettle start to whistle, and off she shot. And a big cloud of inky black smoke out the side exhaust on every start from a stop. The ZF transmission was a devil if you lifted throttle suddenly just after moving off, the 1st gear lurching would throw the customers to the floor.
Ancient history, the young ones' eyes just glaze over when you tell the story.
happy coaching!
buswarrior