Mercedes-Benz O 405 N

The Mercedes-Benz O 405 N is a low-floor city bus from Daimler-Benz built from 1989 to 2001. It has two or three doors and two axles, the rear one driven, and an articulated version, the O 405 GN, was also made. It was a further development of the high-floor O 405 and proved a great success. The first cars kept the door and window layout of the high-floor model and had a step from the centre door to the rear because of the gearbox and rear axle, and later cars gained a ramp. From 1993 a third series was about ten centimetres longer to fit exhaust cleaning. Variants included shortened, extended, intercity, hybrid and natural gas versions, and Greece built it under licence as the ELBO O 405.