Irisbus Midys

The Irisbus Midys is an inter-urban line and grand touring midi coach that Irisbus sold from 2004 to 2008, bodied by Ikarus on an Iveco MidiRider chassis built at the Italian Iveco factory in Brescia. It was relaunched in 2009 with a different body from the Italian coachbuilder Cacciamali, also used for the Irisbus Proxys, and built at the Polish plant of Cacciamali's subsidiary Kapena. This second generation, the Midys 2, meets the Euro 5 emission standard and is best seen as the line version of the Proxys. A rear mounted Iveco Tector F4A engine drives the car. Compared with the Midway it is the better equipped model, with a more powerful engine, air conditioning, comfortable reclining seats and the option of a rear toilet in the touring versions, and it came with either a front and rear door or a front door and a wide central door with a wheelchair lift. In France it was sold in small numbers but was well received among midibus line operators, serving TER regional lines, Transisere services, municipal coaches and the army, and it sold widely in Belgium, Hungary and Poland.