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| Company type | Brand |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Predecessor | Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke GmbH |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Products | Tourist bus,city buses,intercity buses |
| Owner | Daimler Truck |
| Parent | EvoBus |
| Website | www |
Setra[1] is a German bus brand ofEvoBus GmbH, itself a wholly owned subsidiary ofDaimler 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 toDaimler-Benz AG (between 1998 and 2008 known, especially in the United States, by the name of its holding companyDaimler Chrysler). Since 1995,[2] Setra has been a brand of the Daimler subsidiary,EvoBus GmbH.
The North American distribution for Setra by Daimler was set to be partnered and taken over byMotor Coach Industries on April 25, 2012, as Daimler restructured its North American bus operations in 2013;[3] this agreement lasted until the end of 2017 when theREV 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 fromDaimler Truck North America.
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The first Setra coach, the Type S8, so called because it contained eight rows of seats, was introduced in April 1951 at the FrenchInternationale Automobile-vouz. It featured a self-supporting body designed byOtto Kässbohrer, a concept now featured in most modern coaches and buses. Equally unusual at the time was the decision to locate the engine behind the rear axle; the rear-mounted engine configuration is another Setra innovation which subsequently became mainstream. It simplified the production process and created a range of passenger-focused possibilities regarding the floor level in the passenger and driver/crew sections, and for high-floor layouts, flexible use of the underfloor area.
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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, theGrand 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 theMercedes-Benz Citaro).
The different models of the 200 series also bore the name designations with name suffixes, whereby the designationInternational (with the letter I appended to the type designation) for travel and combi-buses with simplified heating/ventilation was used. The termCommunal andRegional were used for regular services, andRational for travel combination models. The short-term offered club bus model based on the S 210 H deviated from the nameReal. Air-conditioned high-floor buses were calledOptimal, the double-deck S 216 HDSRoyal and the double-deck S 228 DTImperial. The export version of the 215 HDH for the US market (later on, the HDH model for the local market was based) was calledTranscontinental. 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 intoMultiClass,ComfortClass andTopClass were abandoned. Additionally, the nameBusiness has been produced in Turkey since 2013, with simpler equipment.
| -07 | -11/-12 | -15 | -16 | -17/-18 | -19 | -31 | |
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| MultiClass 400 | S 412 UL | S 415 H | S 416 H | S 417 UL | S 419 UL | ||
| ComfortClass 400 | S 407 CC(North America) | ||||||
| TopClass 400 | S 417 TC(North America) | S 431 DT | |||||
| ComfortClass 500 | S 511 HD | S 515 HD | S 516 HD | S 517 HD | S 519 HD | ||
| TopClass 500 | S 515 HDH | S 516 HDH | S 517 HDH | S 531 DT | |||
| -06/-07 | -08 | -09 | -10 | -11 | -12 | -13 | -14 | -15 | -16 | -17/-18 | -19/-20 | -21 | -28 |
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| First generation (1951) | |||||||||||||
S6 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11 | S12 | S14 | S15 | ||||||
| Second generation (1967) -Setra S100 | |||||||||||||
S80 | S110 | S120 | S130S | S140ES | S150 | SG180M | |||||||
| Third generation (1976) -Setra S 200 | |||||||||||||
S208H | S209H | S210H | S211H | S212H | S213H | S214H | S215H | S216HDS | S217HDH | SG219SL SG220HUL | S221HDS | S228DT | |
| Fourth generation (1991) -Setra S 300 | |||||||||||||
S300NC | S309HD | S312HD | S313UL | S315GT | S316HDS | S317GT-HD | S319NF | SG321UL | S328DT | ||||
| Fifth generation (2001) -Setra S 400 MultiClass/ComfortClass/TopClass | |||||||||||||
S411HD TopClass | S415NF MultiClass | S416NF | S417GT-HD | S419GT-HD | |||||||||
| -06/-07 | -08 | -09 | -10 | -11 | -12 | -13 | -14 | -15 | -16 | -17/-18 | -19/-20 | -21 | -28 |
| DT | Doppelstock-Touristikbus | double-deck touring bus |
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| 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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