Renault PR100

The Renault PR100 was a French full-size step-entrance single-decker bus chassis built and marketed originally by Berliet from 1971 and sold as a Renault after Berliet was merged into Renault Véhicules Industriels. Berliet developed it using mainly the plans of the German VÖV-Standard-Linienbus of the late 1960s with an altered front end and rear; the original was 11.23 m long on a 5.6 m wheelbase, with an underfloor rear engine, at first a Perkins V8.510 diesel of 178 PS, and it carried the Renault badge from 1979. A revised PR100.2 followed in 1984 and the PR112 in 1993, the last delivered in 1999, and over 13,500 buses of the range were produced in France. It was also exported to Algeria, Australia and Morocco, built under licence by Jelcz in Poland, and bought in Australia by ACTION (258) and Transperth (250). The articulated Renault PR180 and the trolleybus versions ER100 and PER180 were derived from it.