MAN SÜ 242

The MAN SÜ 242 was MAN's intercity service bus of the second German standard generation, which replaced the MAN SÜ 240 in 1987. It was built from the first half of 1987, later than the SL 202 city bus of 1985, because the specification for the standard intercity bus was only fixed at that point. It leans heavily on the SL 202 and uses many parts of the SL II kit, but its body is 190 mm longer on a wheelbase 150 mm longer, with 14 rows of seats for 53 passengers, and it had ABS and ASR from the start. Other differences were optional underfloor luggage lockers, a narrow intercity destination sign above a one-piece windscreen and a single-leaf outward-swinging front door. It was much rarer than its rival the Mercedes-Benz O 407. After production ended in Germany in 1998, a slightly modified version was built in Turkey as the SÜ 223, 263, 313 and 363-MANAS, also sold as the Lion’s Classic Ü.