M decided to take all the emplyees to see, what's on the wild side. Trip started nicely with picking up emplyees on the M bus model G2 and everyone was happy, because lot of work was made to take this bus to run. it's brand new 32 bit windscreen and 32 bit Binocular system made it pretty easy to drive. Sky wasn't never looked so good before from windscreen and Binocular system guranteed maximal viewing distance forward on the road. Bus' problem was that it's speed dropped too much when using new windscreen and Binocular system. Many other busses passed it busses with V2 decals as well as Busses with TNT decals. when they at last arrived, they were laughed at, because everyone else were there many hours ago.
Everyone get angry and decided that it was last time when M -bus is in the laughing stock.They took a bus back to garage and started planning. new M-bus would be the fastest. they re-tuned the engine and upgraded the fuel system. They also found nice Bumped hood (instead of flat one that everyone else were using.) from the old Sauna. Because the owner of sauna was scraping his bus project, they got easily a deal with M using same kind of hood on their bus. after they announced using Bumped hood, major bus body work maker, also licensed the bumped hood and announced full support for it on their next new body version called D6.
work on continued with great speed and before next "bus companies drive to the picnic", they finished first working prototype busses. instructions to technical part maker were sent about constructing new technical parts and brand new assembly line for this G4 Buses was opened. next "wild side" trip of bus companies came and this time M-bus was first on picnic place. all the other wer back, some more some less. sadly, that sauna owner was still strugling with his new Bus, that was rumoured run on methanol. In any case, this time M-bus was first on the place and after other arrived they came to take look of G4. it had many new interesting features like, two windscreens and Bumped hood. Everything was looking good.
Few months later things didn't look good anymore; technical parts maker still was not able to deliver and new assembly line was standing still. while waiting this, M decided continue selling G2 busses because they stiil sell pretty well for older ppl use. those customers weren't so much on speed, but more like how the scenery looked. TNT bus company already surpassed them with G-type on highway whenever they were going somewhere, though they didn't have bumped hood and dual windscreens. But at last, tech part maker started to deliveries and new manufacturing line started to run smoothly. Now because some competitors were again faster, started M updating once more the G2 based G4. but this time they decided do it properly. until they would be ready with G8, they decided quickly update G4 for better price/quality ratio for older ppl market.
At the same time, A -bus company started to gain speed improvments; they even tested dual engine type, but after major bus body maker (that same which earlier lisenced bumped hood from sauna owner.) made new body model, they dropped it because there wasn't room for two engines.
On the trip to Bus makers annual picnic on model G4.5, M's management happy and convinced that G8 would be next year able to attract more younger customers. Everything was fine until they arrived to picnic place and saw what was happening. TNT company had bring some hound dogs with them and before M's Management even noticed, those dogs were chased most of their emplyees on their bus. Now TNT was starting the engine and drive away. Of course M tried to go on pursuit, but G4.5 was just too slow to keep on with TNT's new GD - type. After a quick look, they noticed that practically whole G8 design team was gone. Only one guy was left from it. Quietly they drove back on their garage. situation looked very bad. the sauna owner made another announcement on bus magazine that he decided not release methanol bus, but continue it's development even further.
M had not much choices left. they decided that only one guy that knews G8, continues developing it. Later on it was launched as another older ppl model, G5.5. all the others and every employee that was hired, were put on work with new P-model bus. This time, it was made from scratch. Everything was going fine until first tech parts should have been arriving from new tech part maker. then something went badly wrong and it's not known even now, why it took tech part maker to make first working tech parts so late. they even missed one picnic because of that. In any case, during this time, now biggest bus companies A and TNT had lowered their prices quite lot. Now older ppl started to buy faster busses too, because there wasn't anymore much difference on scenery quality and lowest priced faster busses were cheaper than M's older ppl busses. M started to lose their money. and P -type was having serious problems on technical parts. 4 months later M at last got P-type finished and launched it to the market. P-type got good reception though there were some ppl thinking it being too underpowered to use new D9 body work that was coming soon. Press crushed it almost every test; tests only considered the top speed, while M tried to market Bus' Hill race features. engine had 4 cylinders and 4 valves on each. those were fed by only two carburators, but fuel pump and fuel pipes were highly optimized. also M's marketing made a kind of mistake by rushing bus out with bad air-cleaners. so usually, bus always losed to GD4 from TNT and R8 from A. later on, M got better aircleaners, but it was too late. youngsters market was already gone. A introduced soon their R9.7 with 8 cylinder engine (but having only one valve per cylinder. they new idea was use one valve more than once in the burning process.) Everyone was waiting TNT's new GX-type but it came very late and company said it had problems with tech maker, which was changing lathes more efficient ones to get higher quality parts.)
when M first time sent P-type construction instructions to tech part maker, they decided to arrange a new group of designers around that guy who finalized G8. they got their new group and these guys started to make new, more D9 body work compliant version of P-type. this newer P-type was finalized some time ago and first construction instructions were sent. after this it isn't quite clear what has happened. Still It is known that M decided to drive new P-type proto busses to scrap yard and make another older ppl model. BUT, scrapyard is pretty far away from M's garage and story tells that on way to there they picked up that sauna owner on ride. sauna owner had one more design try after that one he announced developing methanol bus further. Then he decided to change target market. Taxis were becoming quickly popular and it fitted more precisly on his qualifications. After discussing with the driver the sauna owner grasped the handbrake and said "hold on a buddy. pull over..."
) in 2d and you have something that could've gotten/kept a small part of the business. (Granted, not high-end, but high-mid-end possibly)