Mercedes-Benz O405

The Mercedes-Benz O405 was a high-floor city line bus built in series by Daimler-Benz from 1984 until autumn 2001. It belonged to the second generation of the German VOV standard line buses and was the direct successor of the O 305, offered alongside the MAN equivalent. It proved very successful, selling widely in Germany and abroad, where chassis often received bodies from local builders, and its sturdy construction kept it popular on the used market. Variants included the articulated O 405 G, a natural gas version, right-hand-drive chassis for Britain, South Africa and Australia, a single trolleybus prototype and two double-decker prototypes. The low-floor O 405 N followed from 1990 while the high-floor bus ran in parallel, and from 1997 the Citaro became the successor of the O 405 city bus series.