The MAZ-203 is a
fully low-floor single-decker bus
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. It is a representative of second generation of
MAZ
Maz or MAZ may refer to:
* IATA code for Eugenio María de Hostos Airport, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
* Minsk Automobile Plant, abbreviated in Belarusian as MAZ
* Myc-associated zinc finger protein, a protein encoded by the ''MAZ'' gene
* Maz, a villa ...
city buses, being a successor of
MAZ-103. It has been built since 2006, there are over 100
models built already. MAZ 203 can be found in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Romania. In
Serbia
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, MAZ has been working in cooperation with local-based company BIK (Bus industries Kragujevac) for the manufacture of BIK-203, a bus manufactured on the basis of the platform of MAZ-203.
Gas-powered bus from Kragujevac
at ekapija.rs, 20-4-2009
There is also a trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or troll ...
variant of the MAZ-203 built from 2008, MAZ-ETON T203 with electrical equipment of Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England.
Eton may also refer to:
Places
*Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England
* Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States
* Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...
, Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
( GTO or IGBT
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).
See also
* List of buses
References
External links
MAZ-203 page on MAZ website
50 MAZ-203 supplied to Kazan, Russia
Photos of MAZ-203 in Gomel, Belarus
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Minsk Automobile Plant vehicles
Full-size buses
Low-floor buses
Trolleybuses
Vehicles introduced in 2006