Ikarbus IK-218

The Ikarbus IK-218, also sold as the IK-218N and IK-218M, is a low-floor articulated city bus built by the Serbian manufacturer Ikarbus of Zemun. With a floor height of 340 mm at the doors it allows step-free boarding from the pavement. It was the first standard low-floor articulated bus Ikarbus produced, created as the articulated version of the IK-112. Its prototype, the IK-218.3, was built in 2003 with Hess of Switzerland and Volvo on a Volvo B7LA chassis, to mark 80 years of the factory. Serial IK-218N buses were offered with Cummins or MAN engines, and some with Cummins engines went to Russia. In March 2013 Ikarbus presented the IK-218M on a MAN self-supporting chassis, 18,750 mm long with 48 seats, and delivered 32 to Belgrade city transport. The standard IK-218 is 18,000 mm long, weighs 17,000 kg empty and has a 199 kW MAN engine.