Ikarus 480

The Ikarus 480 was a suburban and city solo bus built by the Ikarus body and vehicle factory in Hungary on a bought-in DAF chassis. Development began in 1988 in cooperation with DAF, and the first prototype, on the DAF SB 220 chassis taken into production in 1989, was finished the same year and approved by the authorities in England. The chassis was designed as a special city chassis with a floor height of 550 mm and a single interior step. Variants included the 480.91 for city and suburban traffic with a two-leaf front door on the left and 48 seats and 27 standing places, the low-floor 480.93 shown at the 1990 Birmingham bus show with 35 seats, and left-hand drive 480.94 buses for Kuwait and for the Budapest transport company BKV. All four variants had a DAF LT 160 six-cylinder diesel engine of 160 kW. One bus built in 1993 for a Greek order ran at Nógrád Volán. According to the cited article only one bus survives, privately owned in Hungary, and it can be seen at the Aero Park Ikarus meetings.