Alvin Dace

The Alvin Dace is a series of and  motorcoaches which forms Ordrey-based Alvin Motors' main line of. Its compact and front-wheel drive layout allowed for 80% of the vehicle floorplan to be opened up to passengers and luggage was revolutionary in its time, and proved highly influential. The design was replicated over much of East Alutra and in the Southern Oceanic nations, most notably in the Lathadun Fainey Aavest which is a mainstay of global coach culture in its own right.

Following the capture and expropriation of pre-revolution Alvin assets in 1978, the Mark II was designed and produced in the Prenalgren manufacturing plant. Building upon the Mark I series produced prior to the Ordrish Revolution, the the Mark II was developed to be as modular as possible, and furthermore to be able to be repaired and maintained without the need for proprietary specialized tools. The Mark II also expanded into a wider range of standard models which were constructed and sold under the reorganized Alvin Motors Cooperative, including a four- and five-door model (the II-A), a pickup (II-C), and an off-road design (II-DS).

Dace is a Ordrish word that roughly translates to "everyday", named so because of its positioning as a commuter coach.

Kit coaches and customization
From the Mark II series onwards, the Dace was designed to be as modifiable and easily built and maintained as is reasonable, a fact that was bolstered by Alvin's decision to make its onboard computer software. Because of this, the Dace is perhaps one of the most commonly-utilized baseline motorcoach designs, with over 120 different kit car designs based on the Dace chassis.

Aavest

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The Lathadu-produced Fainey Aavest was originally designed on the Mark-I Dace Chassis, which it continued to use as its basis from 1971 (as the FE-70) until 1993, when it was replaced with the domestically-designed FE-111. During and after the Ordrish Revolution, the Aavest was subject to a number of economic and political disputes between Lathadu and the new Ordrish government, but would in turn influence developments in the construction and design of future models of the Dace, with the original 1973 Aavests, known colloquially in Ordrey as the "bog buggy", being a highly sought-after coach among motoring enthusiasts in Ordrey and the world at large.