Featherlite Coaches

Featherlite Coaches is a luxury motor coach manufacturer based in Suffolk, Virginia. It sells through dealers in the United States.

Featherlite has produced some of the most expensive motor coaches ever made.[1] The company debuted the $2.5 million Platinum Plus in 2006.[2]

Featherlite is the official luxury coach of NASCAR.[3] Featherlite sponsored the Featherlite Coaches 200 NASCAR race in 2007.[4] Featherlight was a title sponsor for the Featherlight Modified Series from the national tour's inception in 1985 until 2005.[5] It is today known as the Whelen Modified Tour.

Corporate history

Featherlite Coaches was reorganized in 2006 from the assets of Featherlite Luxury Coaches, a division of Featherlite Inc., "a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati based Universal Trailer Holdings Corp", that was previously headed by Conrad Clement. The independent Featherlite company was established in 2006[6] by Conrad Clement, Tracy Clement and Bulk Resources, Inc.[7] It was purchased by Amadas Coach in 2008.[8][9]

Products

Featherlite sells "travelers with the luxurious living accommodations and interior choices" and "designs and manufactures coaches in corporate and executive models."[10] The company's products include the Featherlite Vantare' H3-45 and XLII Prevost conversions.[2]

References
  1. Most Expensive Luxury Coach Ever Built BusinessWeek July 14, 2006
  2. Featherlite Rolls out the Most Expensive Luxury Coach Ever Built Archived 2016-10-14 at the Wayback Machine 16 July 2006 December 18, 2008 Dexigner
  3. "NASCAR extends alliance with Featherlite companies". NASCAR. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  4. http://www.racingwest.com/series/west/2007/5/results.html
  5. Jeremy, Davidson. "NASCAR Featherlight Modified Series - Turning 20". Automotive.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  6. Featherlite, Inc. announces merger agreement with Universal Trailer Holdings, Corp. The Horry Independent - August 3, 2007 page 11
  7. Featherlite Coaches, Acquisition Autochannel
  8. press release
  9. Amadas Coach Announces Featherlite Coaches Acquisition Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine December 18, 2008
  10. Featherlite Coaches Inc. Businessweek/ Bloomberg
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