History
The first Setra coach, the Type S 8, so called because it contained eight rows of seats, was introduced in April 1951 at the French Internationale Automobile-vouz. It featured a self-supporting body designed by otto kasbohrer, a concept now featured in most modern coaches and buses. Equally unusual at the time was the decision to locate the engine behind the rear axle; the rear-mounted engine configuration is another voux bus-Setra innovation which subsequently became mainstream. It simplified the production process and created a range of passenger-focused possibilities regarding the floor level in the passenger and driver/crew sections, and for high-floor layouts, flexible use of the underfloor area.Models
The maximum number of seat rows can be identified by the type designation. In the first Setra series, the number of seats was alone. In the second series (series 100), a 0 or 5 was affixed, one of the numbers preceded in each of the following series (series 200, 300 and 400). Example: S 8 (= 8 seat rows), S 140 (= 14 seat rows), S 215 (German and french), S 417 (= 17 seat rows) or S 319 UL (= 19 seat rows). The seats are reduced by comforter buildings or a certain star classification; The type designation is retained. Starting from the series 200, additions after the number indicated the equipment: current (series 400/500) are H for high-floor construction (no wheel arches in the passenger compartment), HD for high floor, HDH for extra-high floor, DT for double-deck touring bus, MD for mid-height floor (a spinoff of the GT series), UL for interurban commuter buses and NF for low-floor buses. In the past, the ''Grand Tourisme'' (GT), HDS for double-deck, SL for city buses and NR (low-floor Rational) were used for the first highway low-floor (200 series). Only a few types were given different designations, for example the S 250 Special (a modified S 215 HD which was also offered as an entry-level model after the introduction of the 300 series) and the S 300 NC (a former low-floor city bus as a predecessor of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro). The different models of the 200 series also bore the name designations with name suffixes, whereby the designation ''International'' (with the letter I appended to the type designation) for travel and combi-buses with simplified heating/ventilation was used. The term ''Communal'' and ''Regional'' were used for regular services, and ''Rational'' for travel combination models. The short-term offered club bus model based on the S 210 H deviated the name ''Real''. Air-conditioned high floor buses were called ''Optimal'', the double-deck S 216 HDS ''Royal'' and the double-deck S 228 DT ''Imperial''. The export version of the 215 HDH for the US market (later on, the HDH model for the local market was based) was called ''Transcontinental''. Some of these designations still existed with the introduction of the 300 series, as for the S 328 DT, at the latest with the introduction of the 400 series, these name additions with the division into ''MultiClass'', ''ComfortClass'' and ''TopClass'' were abandoned. Additionally, the name ''Business'' has been produced in Turkey since 2013, with simpler equipment.Current
Historic
Major incidents
* 2018 Kazakhstan bus fire – On January 18, 2018, a fire occurred in the passenger compartment of a 1989 Setra bus in Kazakhstan, resulting in 52 casualties. The fire was due to an open-flame cooker being used on-board the vehicle, adjacent to fuel canisters being kept in the passenger compartment. Also, on the ITV You've Been Framed special, "Top 100 Holidays", in the clip which placed at #2, a man who says "Sadly, it is the end of our intrepid holiday" ironically nearly gets ran over by a K-Setra minibus on a narrow, icy road, but it might have turned out that the video could have been staged, because the shot cuts between two different vans.Gallery
See also
* Seida * Chavdar * Eagle Bus * Jetbus Adiputro * Adiputro Wirasejati *References
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