Irisbus Agora

The Irisbus Agora is a low-floor city bus that was built in several versions from the mid 1990s into the 2000s and sold under a string of names as ownership of the design changed. Renault designed and built it from 1995 as the Renault Agora, also marketed as the Renault Citybus. From 1999 production passed to Irisbus, at first a joint venture with the Fiat subsidiary Iveco, which supplied the engines, and the type was also built by Karosa in the Czech Republic as the Citybus, by Skoda as a trolleybus for Eastern European markets and by Astra Bus in Romania. The range included a standard 12 metre S version, an 18 metre articulated L version, a Line version with a longitudinally mounted engine and an intercity version called the Moovy. More than 11,000 were built, mostly for European operators, with the RATP Group the largest buyer at over 2,500 and sizeable fleets in Spain, Greece and the Czech Republic.