Mitsubishi Fuso Aero Star (first generation)

The first series of the Mitsubishi Fuso Aero Star, a heavy-duty single-decker bus that the Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso offered either as a public city bus or as a coach. The English Wikipedia article on the Aero Star treats the Aero Star name as running from 1984 and lists this first series by its type codes: the P-MP218 and P-MP618 family of 1984, the U-MP218 and U-MP618 family of 1990 (which included a hybrid MBECS version in 1993) and the KC-MP217, MP617 and MP627 family of 1995. It followed the earlier MP series buses of 1976 to 1984 and was replaced in 1996 by the second series, which carries the same name forward. This entry covers the first series only; the Aero Star as a whole is the parent model.