Pegaso 6038

The Pegaso 6038 was a self-supporting urban bus developed by the Spanish manufacturer ENASA in 1980 to ease the problems that growing demand was creating for city transport companies. It was an almost improvised model: it grew out of trials in Barcelona of two Pegaso 6050 buses, whose monocoque body and low floor the operator liked, and it combined that style of body with the proven mechanics of the older Pegaso 6035, powered by a front-mounted horizontal Pegaso Diesel 9107 engine of 200 cv. It is an 11.34 metre bus with a front guiding axle and a driven rear axle with twin wheels, and it left the factory as a structure that body builders such as Castrosua and Unicar finished. About 2,500 were sold, making it the second best seller in ENASA history after the 6035, and Madrid's EMT alone bought 884. The 6038 became the typical urban bus of Spain in the 1980s and early 1990s; it left service in Madrid in 1999 and in Burgos, among the last cities to run it, in 2006, and several are preserved as historic vehicles.