CaetanoBus

CaetanoBus is a Portuguese manufacturer of bus bodies that belongs to the Salvador Caetano Group. It was founded in 2002 in partnership with Daimler-Chrysler and became wholly part of the group in January 2010, when the group bought Daimler's 26 percent holding. It is headquartered in Vila Nova de Gaia, where its main bus factory also stands, and it builds bodies mounted on chassis of several makes for tourist, intercity and airport services, the airport buses sold under the COBUS name, with most of its output exported. Its roots go back to 1946, when Salvador Fernandes Caetano began a small coachbuilding partnership that later introduced all-metal bodies to Portugal in 1955. Its products include the Cobus and electric e.COBUS airport buses, the CityGold urban bus, the Levante and Winner coaches and the iTRABUS S33 minibus, and between 1983 and 1988 Caetano also built trolleybuses for Coimbra and Porto.