MAZ-206

The MAZ-206 is a Belarusian semi-low-floor, rear-engined city and suburban bus of the medium class, built by the Minsk Automobile Plant. It is meant for large and medium cities with moderate passenger flows, and is longer and roomier than the MAZ-256 but smaller than the city buses of the MAZ-103 class. The front of the floor is low, with a large standing area and a place for a wheelchair, and behind the second door the floor rises to two rows of seats on each side, giving usually 25 seats. It can be fitted with a Minsk Motor Plant D-245.30 or a Mercedes-Benz OM904LA four-cylinder turbodiesel under the floor at the rear, and a ZF automatic or manual gearbox. The bus was presented internally on 14 June 2006, named best city bus at the Moscow motor show in August 2006, and entered series production in 2007, with the suburban MAZ-226 following the same year. A trolleybus conversion, the MAZ-206T, was made in Ivanovo in 2012. Restyled buses reached Moscow in 2021 and Belarus in 2023, and by the summer of 2023 at least 4,300 had been built.