Cashing in on the growing city’s transportation sector, Mercedes-Benz India has announced its plans to launch low-floor 38 seat luxury busses in the third quarter of 2011. Other players in this sector are Volvo, Ashok Leyland and Tata-Motors.
Merc city busses are doing a trial run in Navi Mumbai and Mangalore with the state transport undertaking (STU). Earlier, Merc busses were on a trail run for a month with the STU’s in Bangalore, Mumbai, Mysore and Pune.
The chassis and bodies for the busses will be made by the company’s Chackan Plant near Pune.
Mercedes Benz also manufactures intercity, 2 axle and 3 axle busses. The 43-seat 2-axle inter-city coaches is priced at 75 lakh where as the 53-seat, 3-axle coaches are sold for 95 lakh.
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