Had the opportunity to get in to Nassau back on Saturday, so I got 1931 on the N24, and maaan, those buses are BEAST!!!!
Not only do they SOUND better than, they also RIDE better than MTA's 7000 series buses, which in saying a lot. I started riding LIB irregularly back in 2003, and they always had the worst, cheapset built buses (130-245/270-287 I think is was) were abysmal, you'd be riding along and all of a sudden it'd just chip out. The tranny would just start doin' this effin'...... whiplash lurch-thing, that shit was BEYOND surreal. 288-352/353-395 got a lil' better... 396-462 (1633-1699) improved from there, and the NG/3G's (1700-1799/1800-1839/1840-1884) were a noticeable improvement. Please pardon my armchair analysis here, but it almost seems like the Xcelciors (1885-19xx) may have surpassed the MTA's own standards....
How the mighty have fallen....