 | | | Presentation at the "Persontrafik" show in Stockholm. |
| The Mercedes-Benz Citaro regular-service bus family is a truly remarkable success story to which a new chapter can now be added. |
Nine years after production launch, the Mercedes-Benz Bus and Coach unit has achieved another memorable milestone by handing over the 15,000th Citaro. Theodor Maurer, head of sales at EvoBus GmbH, presented the landmark vehicle – a Mercedes-Benz Citaro LE MÜ low-entry rural-service bus, part of a total consignment of 105 Citaro buses – to Gцran Mellstrцm, general manager of the Swedish bus company Bergkvarabuss AB, at the "Persontrafik" show in Stockholm on 20 October 2006.
"The Mercedes-Benz Citaro is already one of the best-selling regular-service buses of all time. With some 15,000 models sold since series production began in 1998, it is a regular fixture in almost all of Europe’s major cities – giving it a prominent international profile", says Theodor Maurer.
First unveiled at the UITP Congress in Stuttgart in 1997, the Citaro has gone from strength to strength ever since, whether it be in urban or rural regular-service bus guise. Production of the second-generation Citaro, which displays a wealth of new technical and visual features, started in 2006. In addition to this, three low-entry variants and the new Mercedes-Benz Citaro K complete the Citaro urban and rural regular-service bus range.
The "shortened" Citaro K urban regular-service bus made its public debut at the International Commercial Vehicle Show in Hanover in September 2006. When the Mercedes-Benz Bus and Coach unit at EvoBus GmbH first unveiled the Citaro in 1997, it was already clear that this would be the start of a new era in the regular-service bus industry.
Experts were impressed by the Citaro’s unique design and innovative, leading-edge technology. Local public transport had a new showcase vehicle that would go on to achieve a string of notable successes in the coming years. Citaro number 5,000 was delivered to Postbus in Austria, while the 10,000th Citaro was handed over to the Spanish company ALSA S.A. at the FIAA bus and coach show in Madrid in 2004.
Pictured above: Gцran Mellstrцm, general manager of the Swedish bus company Bergkvarabuss AB, and Theodor Maurer, head of sales at EvoBus GmbH. |
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