BUS REVIEW: Mercedes Benz Citaro

Steve Skinner test drives the new Mercedes-Benz Citaro low-floor bus in Brisbane
Videography by: David Gilchrist
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[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

Very nice bus!😀 I've heard these are the best buses to drive!👌 I've not driven these yet!

[@LachieVidsTransportVlogs]

DoubleDeckerAnton wow didn’t expect to see you here. By the way this is my home cities transport

[@kd84afc]

I used to drive these at Stansted Airport, ridged are the best and articulate models are also easy to drive, which were taken from London bus garages after they taken out of service by TFL and they're better suited for airport use and yes I found them to be the best buses to drive for comfort and practicability, The driving position was like a coach, your lower down compared to driving a Enviro 200 for example and even better then the crap Optare solos I am stuck with now, but the Citaro's have better brakes and smooth acceleration, go ahead still use these buses on the 108 route.

[@interestedErvini]

DoubleDeckerAnton I was not expecting to see you here HELLO!!!

[@amateurcarprojects37]

I don't know about these Citaro's but the previous version is great but unreliable. Prone to overheating, jerky gearboxes especially when hot, electrics are a minefield, huge turbo lag and lugging of the engine.

[@gabrielstravels]

@@kd84afc And 203, 358, 413

[@TIB3106U]

I would Citaro's do a good job overall! Here in Singapore we have alot of Citaro's here and they are keeping the city green and safe!.

[@mortbor]

I'm a busdriver for Brakar here in Norway. We got many citaro's in service. They are a great drive really. So easy to handle. Driver's favorite :)

[@MercedesCitarobusvideos]

Not anymore. Awful Scania CK320 Citywide. Hopelessly slow Opticruise gearboxes and rough suspension.

[@stwtranvids2078]

This Citaro now resides in Alice Springs operated by an ATG Downunder company, Charter Central.

[@gabrielstravels]

We have loads of Citaros here in the UK - including the latest version, the Citaro C2. And I have a 10.5m Citaro K C2 running on one of my local routes! :) In Italy too we have so many Citaros!

[@LaxMarch2022]

There was once there was a Hybrid Citaro that was in Singapore for 1 year but was only one of all 5,800 public buses in Singapore and was no longer been here already.

[@TheRealNAuthenticIzaria3436]

True

[@user-ns3lb8ky5l]

I can't wait to ride on this.

[@nesanrockstar5296]

I love buses so much be it a coach, a city transit bus, interstate bus or whatever buses😉😉😊😊. I always love taking bus rides because I get to see the my home city and know the roads😊😊😊.

[@pimplaf]

Strange to see a LHD citaro C2...., although we have in my city in France only citaro's and they are good busses, the citaro Facelifts and the C2's and GC2's are very good, love them.

[@TheRealNAuthenticIzaria3436]

Uhh you mean RHD?

[@owenchuarbx]

we have an older version of the Citaro in Singapore

[@darrel_gg]

Yep those 2005 530s

[@TheRealNAuthenticIzaria3436]

Yea

[@jaymietreadwell]

CORRECT SPECS: 7.7-litre 6-cylinder inline Euro 6 turbo diesel, Voith DIWA 854.6 6th generation 4-speed auto. I had made a comment on the page but unsure if that has been approved yet. Also, this bus is currently registered as CITARO (Yes, that's its' actual registration plate)

[@MercedesCitarobusvideos]

+Jaymie Treadwell The ZF Ecolife 6AP 1400B is better :-P

[@reecehinzey5298]

Jaymie Treadwell mr know it all

[@EAFSQ9]

aaaand it's been withdrawn. Looks like BT is going to continue with Volgren-bodied buses, now using the Volvo B8RLE chassis .

[@johanfagerstromjarlenfors]

The citato is deffenetly like the most common bus in sweden. I have almost never ride another bus during my life and i have been riding bus in many places in sweden😅 The few times i’ve been riding other buses (exept in london;) i was disapoindet of how noisy and shaky it felt compared to the citaro.

[@jamesfrench7299]

Very attractive bus. How can 5 cm be such an impediment when Europe have tighter roads in a lot of cases? Can't exemptions be granted since 2.55m has been the norm by the major manufacturers we get our buses from, for years now?

[@EinkOLED]

The Citaro have been operating in europe since 1997, and the current version has hardly changed in design.

[@galaxygod9962]

I still haven’t gotten to try the new volgren

[@angelineang5089]

why was these withdrawn?

[@jacksuperclyde]

Rip the short lived Citaro

[@prosam124isgodzillaytg9]

Yea those bloody volvogrens

[@Chiny41g]

There are other citaros in service with Sydney buses

[@gabrielstravels]

They aren't real Citaros though - they may look like one but they are actually bodied by Custom Coaches, not to mention that the interior is completely different and they are on a O405NH chassis - real Citaros are O530 (first and facelifted first generation) and O295 (second generation aka Citaro C2). The only other city in Australia to have real Citaros was Perth (WA) with its hydrogen first generation ones - however they were only briefly in service from around 2004 until 2006.

[@stwtranvids2078]

@@gabrielstravels The hydrogen-powered Citaros in Perth was only in service under a trial. Only one survived in preservation, while the other 2 scrapped after the conclusion of the trial.

[@gabrielstravels]

@@stwtranvids2078 Yep, nice to see one preserved!

[@barrysutherland8405]

Do we know what happened with the results of the trial?

[@kelvinz539]

Mates in Brisbane indicated the bus has been withdrawn from service

[@chilli-wipe]

thats why i havenot seen it for months

[@LachieVidsTransportVlogs]

Kelvin Z but.. why?

[@lilliantran3527]

they should buy bloody volgren optimus it is the best out of it we have so far 1600 volgren optimus in Australia I like volgren there are master bus like master ben

[@legend_darkstar]

...Please hail driver?

[@othmanadel3657]

Price

[@ryanhack8755]

Depending on the spec

[@chilli-wipe]

i went on that 1 after school

[@LachieVidsTransportVlogs]

I like Scalia L94UB's better

[@jacksuperclyde]

Same! Theyre better looking, even though I'm from the Sunshine Coast, filled with VSTs, XDis and MDis.

[@benmm01]

I don't like the look of it. I think I'll just stick to the Volgren Optimus

[@IBo99608]

You drive your shitbox, the rest of the world will drive superior german machinery.

[@osidartaha2]

German engineering

[@prosam124isgodzillaytg9]

These buses did not live long

[@afrahfarha9292]

Fa

[@joachimscholz7098]

Mercedes bus, no thanks.

[@LuxPlanes]

Joachim Scholz fuck off