Neoplan Centroliner

The Neoplan Centroliner is a series of low-floor transit buses that was first unveiled in 1997 and built mainly by Neoplan Bus GmbH for the European market. At launch it adopted Controller Area Network technology, and it was offered as a midibus, as a full-size or articulated single-decker and as a three axle double-decker, in different lengths and with one to four doors. After MAN took over Neoplan, a Centroliner Evolution based on the MAN Lion's City was launched with its own bodywork. The range was discontinued in 2009, when Neoplan turned to luxury coaches only, and MAN promotes the Lion's City as its successor. In Hong Kong Kowloon Motor Bus and New World First Bus bought 193 of the double-deckers, and the last of them left franchised service in 2019. In 2017 MAN delivered 41 Lion's City buses to Arriva Denmark with the complete front design of the Centroliner.