MAN SG 220

The MAN SG 220 was an articulated bus on the VöV-Standard design, produced by MAN in Germany from 1978 to 1983 with two, three or four doors in two lengths. It was exported and built locally in France, Slovenia, Turkey and the United States. To meet Buy America rules, the first United States buses were shipped from Germany as driveable shells and finished by AM General in Texas until 1979; after that joint venture ended, MAN opened its own plant in Cleveland, North Carolina in October 1981 to build the SG 220 and the closely related SG 310. Both were high-floor puller articulated buses with a driven middle axle and a MAN D2566 inline-six turbodiesel of 305 hp. MAN left the American transit bus market in 1988, and the Cleveland plant was sold to Freightliner in 1989.