Africa South Africa South Africa's first Volvo B7R was launched at the Volvo global launch event for the B7R in 1997, featuring a coach body built by local Volvo importer Swedish Truck Distributors.
Golden Arrow Bus Services of
Cape Town additionally took delivery of 35 Marcopolo bodied Volvo B7Rs in 2010.
Asia India After a six-month demonstration period using two intercity-specification B7Rs loaned from Hong Kong and Singapore, the Volvo B7R was launched in 2001 for India's intercity and tourist bus market. The B7R soon became the most popular 'deluxe' long-distance air-conditioned bus in India, with the chassis being locally manufactured at Volvo's
Hoskote plant in
Karnataka. A fleet of Volvo B7R intercity coaches were delivered to Raj Travels of
Mumbai and Neeta Travels of
Pune in 2002 for use on a route travelling via the
Mumbai–Pune Expressway. Over 100 B7Rs coaches were later delivered to Raj Travels between 2005 and 2006, India's largest order for Volvo buses at the time.
Indonesia The Volvo B7R was only offered to Indonesian bus and coach operators from 2003 to 2004, however operators who purchased the B7R included PO. Harapan Jaya and PO. Nusantara, among others, for dual-purpose use as either a regular service or tourist shuttle bus. Due to the high power output from the B7R's D7E engine, many of Indonesia's Volvo B7R operators either sold the bus or replaced the D7E engine with
Fuso 6D16,
Nissan FE6B or
Hino J08E diesel engines in order to reduce running costs.
Philippines In the Philippines, the B7R is the bodied with Autodelta Coach Builders GDW6127HKC and
Del Monte Motor Works DM16 bodies, the latter including a Volvo 9800-styled front fascia.
Singapore The Volvo B7R has a
high-floor configuration and two doors raised platform. these small batch buses was running on
Sentosa and supplied by Liannex Corporation bodywork. they were fitted with a 5-speed
ZF Ecomat 5HP 502C automatic transmission with coupling to engine components and powered by Volvo D7C-290 Euro 3 compliant engine. These B7R Liannex buses were retired and scrapped by 2020.
Europe United Kingdom and Ireland Volvo B7Rs in the United Kingdom were first launched with
Plaxton Prima bodywork in late 1997, marketed as a cheaper alternative to the
Plaxton Premiere on
Volvo B10M body and chassis combination. The first operator to take delivery of a B7R in the United Kingdom was James Bevan Coaches of
Lydney,
Gloucestershire in early 1998.
South America In Brazil, the B7R is produced in
Curitiba, since 1998. The first B7R in the country was imported from Sweden and operated in Curitiba's public transportation as a Direct Line Bus. In 2012, Volvo renamed the Brazilian market's B7R to the Volvo B290R, commonly employed in Brazilian
bus rapid transit services.
Uruguay Uruguay's first Volvo B7Rs entered service in the capital
Montevideo in 2001, with , one of three major bus operators in the city, taking delivery of 48 with
Busscar Urbanuss Plus bodies; UCOT took delivery of nine further B7Rs in 2007 with Comil Campione Vision 3.25 bodies for suburban and interurban use. In 2004, transport co-operative took delivery of fifteen
Marcopolo Grand Viale bodied B7Rs between 2004 and 2005. Ten B7Rs with Marcopolo Torino VIP Class bodies were delivered to COETC in 2008 following the company's merger with
Las Piedras co-operative , with a further 70 delivered in 2010 with Marcopolo Gran Via II bodies. additionally took delivery of eight B7Rs in 2007 with Marcopolo Allegro G6 bodies, as well as nine with CAIO Induscar bodies in 2008. Elsewhere in Uruguay, Empresa Tala Pando Montevideo took delivery of 10 Volvo B7Rs with
Busscar El Buss 340 bodywork, and further quantities being acquired by interdepartmental operators such as CITA SA, Grupo Carminatti and Cromin/"Rutas del Sol". ==Gallery==