Pegaso 5317

The Pegaso 5317 was a compact urban bus sold by ENASA, the Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones, from 1986 for operators whose narrow streets ruled out standard 12 metre buses. It was a stopgap product: ENASA had unsold finished structures of the troubled Pegaso Monotral 6025 in stock, removed their upper section and sold them as conventional chassis for body builders, mainly Unicar with its U-90 body, with Castrosua and Camelsa also building on it. At 9.70 metres long once bodied, it carried a turbocharged four-stroke Pegaso 9135 engine of 170 cv mounted horizontally under the floor, with a Wilson GB 340 gearbox and an optional ZF automatic. Madrid's EMT ordered 136, the largest order the model received, and they replaced the Pegaso-SAVA 5720 microbuses on its microbus network between 1987 and 1989; they earned the nickname Madrid. The model inherited overheating and rough gearbox problems from the 6025 and sold modestly elsewhere. It was dropped from 1991, when the almost identical 5321 with a 210 cv Iveco engine replaced it.