What is a legal limousine?
Many limousine service owners will tell you that no limousine that can seat more than 8 passengers. This is not entirely true, but … most limousines seat only 8 in Ontario but some are built to carry more. Also, not all SUV’s are classed as “limousines”. Some cities such as Ottawa-Carleton allow only 8 passengers to be seated in a “limousine” in the way they license those vehicles. Byers SUV’s are licensed as “busses” not as “limousines” which allows them to be stretched longer and carry up to 14 persons, legally! Limousines are manufactured to carry up to 32 persons in some U.S. states. What some owners fail to tell you is that in Canada the standards that govern how large a limousine can be is only regulated by the “legal” length of the stretch (a QVM or CMC vehicle). Ford & GM started the programs called QVM (Quality Vehicle Modifier) and CMC (Cadillac Master Coachbuilder) several years ago to ensure vehicles are stretched to within engineered safe limits. This designation given t
