Setra

Setra is a German bus brand of Daimler Buses, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG.

The name "Setra" comes from "selbsttragend" (self-supporting). This refers to the integral nature of the construction of the vehicles back in the 1950s when competitor vehicles still featured a separate chassis and body (often manufactured by separate companies). It is also possible that, with an eye to export markets, the company was mindful that for non-German speakers, the name "Kässbohrer" is difficult to pronounce. Until 1995 the firm operated under the name Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke GmbH, but in that year economic difficulties enforced its sale to Daimler-Benz AG (between 1998 and 2008 known, especially in the United States, by the name of its holding company Daimler Chrysler). Since 1995, Setra has been a brand of the Daimler subsidiary, EvoBus GmbH.

The North American distribution for Setra was taken over Motor Coach Industries on April 25, 2012; this agreement lasted until the end of 2017 when the REV Group assumed distribution responsibilities. Daimler has again self-distributed Setra coaches in North America since January 2020, through its new subsidiary, Daimler Coaches North America, LLC, with service support from Daimler Truck North America.

History

The first Setra coach, S8, was unveiled in 1951 durinf the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main, where it was shown at the premises of a local Kässbohrer general representative. The launch also introduced the brand name: "Setra" is short for "selbsttragend", the German word for "self-supporting", which refers to the coach's monocoque construction.

The S 8 was the first integral bus built in Germany, with the chassis and body combined into a single load-bearing structure. It was also the first series-production bus to pair a self-supporting body with a rear-mounted engine driving the rear axle directly. Together with its streamlined styling and large luggage compartments, this layout set new benchmarks in European coach building, and later Setra models helped the self-supporting design spread quickly through the market.

Models

The maximum number of seat rows can be identified by the type designation. In the first Setra series, the number of seats was alone. In the second series (series 100), a 0 or 5 was affixed, and one of the numbers preceded in each of the following series (series 200, 300, and 400). Example: S 8 (= 8 seat rows), S 140 (= 14 seat rows), S 215 (= 15 seat rows), S 417 (= 17 seat rows), or S 319 UL (= 19 seat rows). The seats are reduced by comforter buildings or a certain star classification; The type designation is retained. Starting from the series 200, additions after the number indicated the equipment: current (series 400/500) are H for high-floor construction (no wheel arches in the passenger compartment), HD for high floor, HDH for an extra-high floor, DT for double-deck touring bus, MD for mid-height floor (a spinoff of the GT series), UL for interurban commuter buses and NF for low-floor buses. In the past, the Grand Tourisme (GT), HDS for double-deck, SL for city buses, and NR (low-floor Rational) were used for the first highway low-floor (200 series). Only a few types were given different designations, for example, the S 250 Special (a modified S 215 HD which was also offered as an entry-level model after the introduction of the 300 series) and the S 300 NC (a former low-floor city bus as a predecessor of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro).

The different models of the 200 series also bore the name designations with name suffixes, whereby the designation International (with the letter I appended to the type designation) for travel and combi-buses with simplified heating/ventilation was used. The term Communal and Regional were used for regular services, and Rational for travel combination models. The short-term offered club bus model based on the S 210 H deviated from the name Real. Air-conditioned high-floor buses were called Optimal, the double-deck S 216 HDS Royal and the double-deck S 228 DT Imperial. The export version of the 215 HDH for the US market (later on, the HDH model for the local market was based) was called Transcontinental. Some of these designations still existed with the introduction of the 300 series, as for the S 328 DT, at the latest with the introduction of the 400 series, these name additions with the division into MultiClass, ComfortClass and TopClass were abandoned. Additionally, the name Business has been produced in Turkey since 2013, with simpler equipment.

Current

-07 -11/-12 -15 -16 -17/-18 -19 -31 MultiClass 400 S 412 ULS 415 H S 415 UL S 415 UL business S 415 LE businessS 416 H S 416 UL S 416 UL business S 416 LE businessS 417 UL S 417 UL business S 418 LE businessS 419 UL ComfortClass 400S 407 CC TopClass 400 S 417 TC S 431 DT ComfortClass 500 S 511 HDS 515 HD S 515 MDS 516 HD S 516 HD/2 S 516 MDS 517 HDS 519 HD TopClass 500 S 515 HDHS 516 HDHS 517 HDHS 531 DT

Historic -06/-07 -08 -09 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 -17/-18 -19/-20 -21 -28 First generation (1951)S6 S7S8S9S10S11S12S14S15 Second generation (1967) - Setra S100S80S110S120S130SS140ESS150SG180M SG180U SG180UL SG180S Third generation (1976) - Setra S 200S208H S208HM S208HMU S208HUS209H S209HM S209HMU S209HUS210H S210HD S210HI S210HM S210HMU S210HUS211H S211HD S211HDI S211HDU S211HI S211HM S211HMU S211HUS212H S212HM S212HMU S212HUS213H S213HD S213HDU S213HI S213HM S213HMA S213HMI S213HMU S213HR S213HRI-GT S213HUL S213ULS214H S214HD S214HDI S214HDUS215H S215HD S215HDH S215HDI S215HDS S215HDU S215HI S215HM S215HMI S215HMU S215HR S215HRI-GT S215HU S215HUL S215NR S215RL S215SL S215UL S250 SpecialS216HDS S216HDSIS217HDHSG219SL SG220HULS221HDS SG221ULS228DT S228DTI Fourth generation (1991) - Setra S 300S300NCS309HDS312HDS313UL S313UL-GTS315GT S315GT-HD S315H S315HD S315HDH/2 S315HDH/3 S315NF S315UL S315UL-GTS316HDS S316ULS317GT-HD S317HDH S317UL S317UL-GTS319NF S319UL S319GT-HDSG321ULS328DT Fifth generation (2001) - Setra S 400 MultiClass/ComfortClass/TopClassS411HD TopClassS415NF MultiClass S415GT ComfortClass S415GT-HD S415HD S415HDHS416NF S416GT S416GT-HD S416GT-HD/2 S416HDHS417GT-HD S417HDHS419GT-HD -06/-07 -08 -09 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 -17/-18 -19/-20 -21 -28

+ Suffixes DT Doppelstock-Touristikbus double-deck touring bus HD Hochdecker high floor HDH Hochdecker high extra-high floor HDS Superhochdecker super-high floor (double-deck) HR Hochdecker Regional high floor commuter MD Mitteldecker mid(-height) floor NR Niederflur Rational sloped (low) floor UL Überland interurban

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