The Irisbus Agora was a low-floor bus

Low-floor bus

A low-floor bus is a bus that has no steps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin. Being low floor improves the accessibility of the bus for the public, particularly the elderly or infirm, or those with push chairs, and increasingly, those in wheelchairs.In the modern...

 designed and built by Renault

Renault

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 from 1996 to 2002, date upon which it has been built by Irisbus

Irisbus

Irisbus is a bus manufacturer which was formed through the merger of the bus and coach divisions of Fiat Industrial, Iveco and Renault in January 1999 and Ikarus Bus in late 1999...

, firstly a joint-venture with Fiat

Fiat

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 subsidiary Iveco

Iveco

Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicle Corporation, originally an alliance of European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Fiat , Unic and Magirus. Iveco is now an Italian truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin...

 from 1999, with Iveco engines. It has also been built by Czech-based Karosa under the Citybus name as a diesel-powered bus, and Skoda as a trolleybus

Trolleybus

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 in Eastern European markets.

Standard Agora buses have been used by Athens

Athens

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bus operator OAS in two versions: diesel and CNG.

The range consisted of:

• Standard 12-metre "S" version, available in two- or three-door form
• Articulated 18-metre "L" version in three- or four-door form
• "Line" 12-metre version in two- or three-door form (built from 1999). This version is distinct from the standard Agora by its engine layout, which is longitudinally-mounted (under the rear passenger seats) instead of being transverserly mounted in the Agora S and L. That gives the Line version a slightly greater seating capacity and a better fuel economy over the S version.
• Intercity version called "Moovy" (unveiled in 2003) which was based on the Agora Line.