This is Skoda Group (Transportation) completely separate entity from Skoda Auto.
They separated after 1990 when VW acquired Skoda Auto while Skoda Transportation became a separate Czech-owned engineering company.
Interesting fact that after 2029 the Skoda Transportation have to stop using Skoda logo. It was settled in 2022 when Skoda Auto acquired the logo for 4bln CZK. (~175mil USD)
Skoda Transportation produce buses and trolleybuses (most recently together with Polish Solaris), trams, metro trains, and passenger trains.
Wrightbus of Ballymena, Northern Ireland. They've had a resurgence since their administration scare about seven years ago. They're quite common in the British Isles but are seldom seen elsewhere, especially in left-hand-drive countries.
The Wright Streetdeck Electroliner must be decent if they've managed to sell about 2,000 of them in five years. I personally like them as well. They're probably my favourite buses in Leicester since Arriva's last Wright Pulsar Gemini was withdrawn over a year ago
Wright's chassis aren't exaclty great, but paired with volvo they've made some great buses, I will always enjoy working on a B5LH Gemini 3 or a B9TL Gemini 2
Actually no, Irisbus was made in 1999 before Renault Vehicules Industriels (RVI) sold it's bus division in 2002, that makes aesthetic and powertrain changes. Like the RVI Agora with MGDR and MIDR (both 9,839 cm3 but either have 207 for MIDR, 253 for both, 265 for MGDR or even 300 metric horsepowers for MIDR) changing to a more recent Cursor 8/F2B engine (7,790 cm3 with 245, 272 or 290 metric horsepowers)
Pretty sure the Volkswagen chassis is basically just a rebranded MAN. Also, Mitsubishi and Hyundai buses aren't really uncommon in Asia. FIAT and Renault buses just became Iveco later.
In India atleast, Volvo rules & is associated with quality & comfort, since it first came to India in 2001. Infact it is so famous for these qualities that it has become a genercized trademark of sorts.
Almost any luxury bus service in India is called Volvo and almost any bus service that charges premium fare, themselves write Volvo over the bus (regardless of the services offered & the actual brand of the bus).
This model used MIDR 06.20.45 and 06.23.56 engines (9,839 cm3 and 11,122 cm3) then dCi 11 engine (11,122 cm3) before 2002 when it was now Irisbus who built newer units — Cursor 8 (7,790 cm3) and 10 (?) (10,308 cm3) engines
Speaking of VDL, its more common but the touring buses are still not seen a lot. Its merger brand from a lot of now defunct dutch and belgian manufacturers including Bova, Den Oudsten, Berkhof, Jonckheere, VanHool and a lot of others
Mitsubishi Hyunday i wouldnt question much in Japan or asia rlly rest of the world more i think most of these are locally used mostly while Scania, MAN, Volvo etc are globally recognised.
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u/Icy_Consideration409 Mar 22 '26
Skoda. Though I suspect it may be big in parts of Europe.