GAZ is working on a new model of a low-floor city minibus

Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) is developing a low-floor city minibus. As it became known to the agency "AUTOSTAT", the new model will be distinguished by a spacious luxury cabin; it will meet the requirements of the “Accessible Environment” program and will be adapted to transport such categories of passengers as mothers with prams and people with disabilities. Production and sales of low-floor minibuses can be started already in 2020.

Recall, today the “Gazelle Next” family has a wide range of modifications and variants of special equipment, among which there are cargo and cargo-passenger models, all-metal vans and combi, minibuses with different number of places, bread, manufactured goods and isothermal vans, Euro platforms, ambulances assistance and school buses. The newest model of the GAZel Next family was a cargo van and a minibus on an extra-long wheelbase with a gross weight of 4.6 tons, sales of which started in 2019. Vehicles "GazelNext" are equipped with four types of power units: gasoline, diesel and two versions of gas-gasoline engines running on compressed (methane)or liquefied gas (propane).

Currently, Gazel Next is the most popular model in the commercial vehicle market in Russia.