Featherlite Coaches

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

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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]

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References

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