Autocares VIVAS continues to choose UNVI IVECO M20 midibuses to extend their fleet of vehicles. The vehicle was sold through the IVECO Antuña dealership, based in Tremañes, Gijón.
HERMANOS VIVAS started out in the sector in 1911, the year in which Mr. Segundo Vivas González committed to transport mail between León and Benavente in a six-seater stagecoach drawn by two horses. At the end of the First World War, in 1918, he acquired his first petrol car, an old second-hand medical ambulance, bought in France, which he converted into a bus with a capacity for fourteen passengers by installing benches at the back.
In 1928, maintaining his commitment to postal deliveries, the ministry granted him the exclusive rights to the route he had been running, and after going through the deplorable events of the civil war (in 1936 four of the six coaches he owned were confiscated), he handed over the management of the company to his son Mr. Emerio Vivas Cid, who has continued the expansion of the company up to the present day. At present, the company has a fleet of 60 buses dedicated to private transport, school and workers transport and, following the family tradition, the company is managed by two great-grandchildren of the founder.
The UNVI M20 range is available in several versions: tourism in 29+G+D or 27+G+D with Large Boot. The accessible version features up to 8 wheelchairs with side or rear lift. The range is completed by an urban version with lowered rear. The IVECO chassis is powered by a 210 hp engine and fitted with a HiMatic gearbox.
