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Setra
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Setra is a German bus brand of Daimler Buses, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Setra
- Company.logo
- Setra Logo.svg
- Company.type
- Brand
- Company.predecessor
- Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke GmbH
- Company.foundation
- 1951
- Company.industry
- Automotive
- Company.products
- Tourist bus, city buses, intercity buses
- Company.owner
- Daimler Truck
- Company.parent
- Daimler Buses
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.setra-bus.com
- Image
- Postal bus in Switzerland, July 2009 (pixabay).jpg
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- WMI code
- WKK
- inception
- 1951-11-11
- Commons category
- Setra vehicles
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Setra is a German bus brand of Daimler Buses, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG.
The name "Setra" comes from "selbsttragend" (self-supporting). This refers to the integral nature of the construction of the vehicles back in the 1950s when competitor vehicles still featured a separate chassis and body (often manufactured by separate companies). It is also possible that, with an eye to export markets, the company was mindful that for non-German speakers, the name "Kässbohrer" is difficult to pronounce. Until 1995 the firm operated under the name Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke GmbH, but in that year economic difficulties enforced its sale to Daimler-Benz AG (between 1998 and 2008 known, especially in the United States, by the name of its holding company Daimler Chrysler). Since 1995, Setra has been a brand of the Daimler subsidiary, EvoBus GmbH.