MAN SG 242

The MAN SG 242 is an articulated city bus built to the second generation of the German standard bus specification. MAN brought it to market in 1986 together with the longer SG 292, as a development of the earlier SG 242 H and SG 282 H. It is a pusher articulated bus whose rear axle is driven, as in the established Mercedes-Benz O 305 G; for patent reasons connected with the articulation angle control, MAN could introduce this layout only some years after Daimler-Benz. It came with the usual city bus front and also with an intercity front with a single-width entrance and a small destination sign. Competition from the low-floor MAN NG 272 began in 1990, and production stopped in 1999, with the MAN AS SG 313 named as its successor.