MAZ-215

The MAZ-215 is a Belarusian low-floor articulated city bus from the Minsk Automobile Plant and the successor to the MAZ-205. It was developed in 2014 for the men's ice hockey world championship held in Minsk, to carry fans to the stadiums, and was then the largest articulated bus built by MAZ and the largest built in the former CIS. Depending on the configuration it is designed for around 170 passengers, with 40 seats, and a five-door version is common in Minsk and Gomel. Many parts come from the MAZ-205 and the body parts from the smaller MAZ-203 and MAZ-206. The six-cylinder in-line diesel engine comes from Mercedes-Benz, the automatic transmission from ZF Friedrichshafen and the brakes from Knorr-Bremse, with ABS, ESP and traction control, air suspension on all axles and a roof bulge that houses the cooling system. By early 2020 at least 330 had been built, with exports to Mongolia, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine, and a MAZ-215T trolleybus and a pusher articulated MAZ-216 are related.