Irisbus Proxys

The Irisbus Proxys is a mini touring coach and interurban minibus built and sold under the Irisbus Iveco name by the Italian group Irisbus Iveco. It was designed by the Italian coachbuilder Cacciamali, whose Cacciamali TCI 840 GT of 2003 was its ancestor. After Cacciamali bought the Polish maker Kapena in 2000, several Italian models were built under licence by Kapena, which started producing the Proxys in a new plant near Slupsk in the summer of 2008, after its debut at the Autotec show in Brno in June 2008. It is built on the Iveco MidiRider chassis made at the Italian plant in Brescia and driven by an Iveco Tector 6 six cylinder engine of 5,880 cubic centimetres giving 160 kilowatts at 2,700 revolutions per minute to the Euro 5 standard, mounted ahead of the front axle, with full air suspension under ECAS control. It comes in two lengths, 7,650 and 8,450 millimetres, seating up to 28 or up to 36 passengers on seats from Gibicar, with Webasto air conditioning. A city version is sold as the Irisbus Proway.