Volvo B6

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The Volvo B6 is a midibus manufactured by Volvo between c. 1991 and 1998. Its low-floor variant, the Volvo B6LE, was first built in 1994.

The Volvo B6/B6LE chassis was built to compete with the Dennis Dart/Dart SLF chassis. It could be fitted with Volvo TD63E/TD63ES engine (later Volvo D6A engine). The Volvo B6 prototypes were built in Austria, but the production buses were built in the United Kingdom.

It was mainly built for the UK market, but some of the buses had been exported to Australia and Hong Kong, etc.

In New Zealand, the B6LE runs commonly on Wellington's Metlink bus routes, especially on the 120 and the 130 bus routes.

The successor of the Volvo B6/B6LE was the Volvo B6BLE.