FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:

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


Metrotrans Announces Delisting from Nasdaq and Listing on OTC Bulletin Board

GRIFFIN, Ga., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Metrotrans Corporation (Nasdaq: MTRN)
announced today that effective as of the close of trading on October 11, 1999
the Company's common stock will no longer be listed on The Nasdaq National
Market but will be eligible to trade on the OTC Bulletin Board.  As previously
disclosed, the Company's common stock has not maintained the minimum
requirements for continued listing on The Nasdaq National Market.  The
trading symbol remains MTRN.

The OTC Bulletin Board is a regulated quotation service that displays real-
time quotes and last-sale price and volume information in over-the-counter
equity securities.  Information about the OTC Bulletin Board is available on
the Internet at http://www.otcbb.com.

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.