FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:

John G. Wallace
President & CEO
Metrotrans Corporation
(770) 229-5995


                 METROTRANS ANNOUNCES NEW FORBEARANCE AGREEMENT

     GRIFFIN, Ga., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Metrotrans Corporation (Nasdaq:
MTRN) announced today that it had entered into a new forbearance agreement
with Bank of America on September 30, 1999, under which the lender has agreed
to forbear until October 15, 1999 from exercising its rights and remedies
under the secured revolving credit facility with respect to defaults existing
at July 4, 1999 as further described in the Company's 10-Q filing.  Under the
terms of the new forbearance agreement, the Company has agreed to make
certain loan payments using proceeds from the sale of assets which are not
considered by management to be essential to the Company's core business.
Additionally, the Company has agreed to engage an investment banking firm in
order to explore strategic options related to securing additional investors
as well as possible sale of the business.  This new forbearance agreement
will also provide both parties the additional time needed to continue current
discussions regarding a new secured revolving credit facility.

     Metrotrans designs, manufactures and distributes shuttle and mid-size
touring buses through Company operated sales centers and independent
distributors in the United States and Canada and Puerto Rico. The Company
also distributes the Irizar Century full-size motorcoach in the United
States.

     This press release includes ``forward-looking statements'' within the
meaning of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that could cause the actual results of the Company to differ materially from
the results expressed or implied by such statements, including general
economic and business conditions, conditions affecting the Company's
customers and suppliers, and actual purchases of Company products by
customers, competitor responses to the Company's products and services, the
overall market acceptance of such products and services, the costs and
availability of components, product scheduling and other factors disclosed in
the Company's last filed Annual Report on Form 10-K. Accordingly, although
the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking
statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations
can be achieved.