FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:

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


                  Metrotrans Announces New Forbearance Agreement

     GRIFFIN, Ga., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Metrotrans Corporation (OTC:
MTRN) announced today that it had entered into a new forbearance agreement
with Bank of America on October 22, 1999, under which the lender has
agreed to forbear until December 31, 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 announced that it
has engaged Legacy Securities Corporation in order to explore strategic
options related to structuring a proposal for refinancing or otherwise
satisfying the Company's indebtedness.

     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.