Kässbohrer - Setra, Steyr-Daimler-Puch ? No! This is Chavdar 130, 140 and 530 - newest products from Chavdar factory (1990s)!
This is a promotional video of the bus factory Chavdar (Bulgaria, Botevgrad) and their new production.
In this short video you see solo city bus with 3 doors Chavdar 130 (under license of Steyr), the articulated city bus Chavdar 140 (only one prototype again under license of Steyr) and and the intercity bus under license from Setra - Chavdar 530.
On 12 octomber 1982 year - Chavdar factory and Steyr Daimler Puch sign a cooperation agreement - after year on 3 octomber 1983 year the license for production of city and intercity buses was also signed.
The contract includes the production of the following buses:
3 and 2 doors citybus - Chavdar 130/120
2 doors intercity bus - Chavdar 330
4 doors articulated city bus - Chavdar 140
The first three prototypes (130, 140 and 330) were made in the factories of Stеyr in Austria with Bulgarian parts in the period 1985-1986. They have engines Liaz and automatic gearbox - Praga 2M70 (for Chavdar 130), mechanical Praga 5P80 (for Chavdar 330) and automatic ZF4HP500 (for Chavdar 140).
In the late 80's, these buses remained only at the prototype level.
Chavdar 130 buses entered serial production in the 90s.
The prototype bus made in Austria is almost indistinguishable from the Steyr SS11.
In the production of serial buses, some details have been changed: front mask, lights, and others.
After 1989, Czech spare parts became more expensive, then in the Chavdar plant is developed a variant of Chavdar 130 bus with Kamaz engine and gearbox Lvov-3 - one is build and is sell to Tashkent city in Uzbekistan.
After Chavdar 130, the production of Chavdar 120 was started - is very same bus, with some diferents - windows is smallest and second door is on different possition.
Technical characteristics of Chavdar 130:
Years of production - 1992-1994
length - 11877mm
width - 2500mm
height - 3300mm
base - 5810mm
weight - 17000kg
number of passengers - 100
engine - MAN D0826 LUH (169kW), LIAZ (145kW), KAMAZ (144kW), Mercedess (184kW) or Renault (186kW)
maximum speed - 82 km/h
Technical characteristics of Chavdar 120:
Years of production - 1992-1994
length - 11555mm
width - 2500mm
height - 3300mm
base - 5550mm
weight - 17000kg
number of passengers - 100
engine - MAN D0826 LUH (169kW), LIAZ (145kW), KAMAZ (144kW), Mercedess (184kW) or Renault (186kW)
maximum speed - 82 km/h.
In the beginning of 1986 the prototype of the articulated bus Chavdar 140 (same as Steyr SG18) assembled in Austria was presented at the Plovdiv Technical Fair. The production of Chavdar 140 remains with only one number. In order to unify, the Chavdar plant started the production of articulated Chavdar buses 141 - They have some differences with Chavdar 140: Unified base of the front section of the bus with Chavdar 120 (5550mm), One more window after the second door of the front section, MAN engine, various doors and others .
Chavdar 141 buses are delivered for public transport in Sofia and Burgas.
Technical characteristics of Chavdar 140/141:
Years of production - 1993-1998
length - 17770mm
width - 2500mm
height - 3300mm
base - 5550mm (6215 for 140 prototype)
weight - 26600kg
number of passengers - 180
engine - MAN D2865 LUH (198kW), LIAZ (189kW), Mercedess (184kW) or Renault (186kW)
maximum speed - 68 km/h.
Chavdar 530 is intercity bus very similar to Setra S215HD buses. 6 buses were produced - three for Greece and three for Bulgaria. The production is jointly with the Greek company Savaglu and Turkish KARUSOR CEMKAR.
Technical characteristics of Chavdar 530:
Years of production - 1988-1995
length - 12000mm
width - 2500mm
height - 3500mm
base - 6080mm
weight - 17000kg
number of passengers - 49
engine - MAN D2866 LOH (271kW), LIAZ (189kW), Mercedess (250kW), Cummins (242kW) or Renault (249kW)
maximum speed - 125 km/h.