Ambulance for sale

The vehicle was manufactured last year by Mielec (no longer affiliated with VW-Audi) as the company bid on a tender to make ambulances for the Ministry of Health and Social Care. VW-Audi lost the tender, and the car has been in the showroom ever since.
"If you would like to buy it, we will sell it," said Jermanowski. So far, he has not gotten any serious offers for the vehicle, which sells for DM 60,000. An elderly couple on a two-minute walk through the showroom did not even stop at the rescue vehicle.
Last year's tender was won by Mercedes-Benz Sobieslaw Zasada SA, which produced 100 ambulances for the national ambulance service. The ministry declined to disclose the price of the deal. The national ambulance service, plagued by funding problems, currently has 9,553 ambulances on the road.
Jermanowski has no plans to remove the ambulance from the showroom floor.
"We have to sell it," he said, noting that his staff has made unsuccessful sales pitches to hospitals around the city. If they don't, he noted, they may just save it and participate in the next tender.
But that may take a while. According to a spokesperson from the health ministry, "there are no plans of the next purchase, because of the lack of money in our budget for that purpose."
-Renee Cordes