Ikarus 438

The Ikarus 438 was the only articulated bus of the Ikarus 400 family, and only one was ever built. After the success of the Ikarus 200 family the factory developed it for the market of the Commonwealth of Independent States as a cross between the two bus families, building the technical features of the Ikarus 283 into a body that resembles the Ikarus 435. Because the large MAN engine needed room, the second door was placed right behind the front axle, as on the 283, which left the fourth door normal-sized unlike on the 435; the second door was later closed off. Its floor height matched the 200 family and was higher than on the 400 buses. The successor states of the Soviet Union did not want to buy the type, so it first served as a staff transport vehicle of Ikarus itself. Volánbusz bought it in 2000 and repainted it from green and white to orange, and it ran until it was retired in 2016. The Hungarian Museum of Science and Transport bought it in 2018.