MAN NG 272

The MAN NG 272 was MAN's first low-floor articulated city bus, presented in 1990 as the articulated companion of the MAN NL 202. Its styling follows the second German standard service bus, and it was available with three or four doors. It was a pusher articulated bus with a diesel engine at the rear driving the last axle, and in the first series all seats stood on raised platforms. In 1992 the NG 272 was replaced by a second series, known as the NG 272(2) or A11, which looked much the same but arranged the seats with fewer platforms at the front, giving lower side windows with a kink in the window line ahead of the middle axle; MAN nevertheless listed it as a separate series. Most examples have since been retired by transport operators, and only a few still run with private operators or abroad.