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.
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]