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MOTORINDIA
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of optional equipment mak-
ing it an ideal vehicle to
address the growing public
transport requirements.
Commenting
on
the
choice of automatic trans-
mission, Mr. Srinivasan
said: “Keeping in view the
frequent start-stop city oper-
ation in India and with posi-
tive customer feedbacks on
automatic transmission, we
have opted for the technical-
ly superior and latest Voith
DIWA .5 transmission in
our City Bus. The transmission has
an in-built hydrodynamic retarder
and provides advantages such as re-
duced driver fatigue by eliminating
manual gear-shifts, improved driv-
ing efficiency, improved passenger
comfort and improved life of aggre-
gates due to optimum gearshift in
city traffic.”
The state-of-the-art air suspension
of the vehicle increases passenger
comfort. The excellent stability and
ride comfort of the City Bus is en-
hanced by the Mercedes-Benz bus-
type air suspension which has been
well received by users of the Mer-
cedes-Benz coaches.
The Mercedes-Benz City Bus has
high fuel efficiency and is ahead of
competing products with its efficient
and powerful engine, an optimum
weight factor, smartly developed
aerodynamics and rolling resistance.
The extreme ease of maintenance
translates into long maintenance in-
terval and significantly reduces the
downtime, which makes the Mer-
cedes-Benz City Bus an ideal choice
for operators.
The City Bus fully complies with
the bus body code, which aims at
regulating the diverse Indian bus
body building landscape to ensure
high passenger and driver safe-
vehicle zone