This year, IVECO BUS celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its flagship model, the CROSSWAY. First previewed in Litomyšl and officially unveiled at the AUTOTEC trade fair in Brno, Czech Republic, in June 2006, the intercity vehicle has become a benchmark in passenger transport across Europe and beyond. With more than 70,000 units produced to date, the CROSSWAY is the IVECO BUS’s greatest success: today, one out of every two intercity coaches sold in Europe is a CROSSWAY as IVECO BUS proudly states.
Produced at Vysoké Mýto – IVECO BUS’s main production site and one of Europe’s largest coach manufacturing plants, which celebrated 130 years of history in 2025 – one can say the CROSSWAY has played a key role in the evolution of public transport, meeting the expectations of public and private operators. “By celebrating the 20th anniversary of CROSSWAY, we pay tribute to a model that embodies IVECO BUS’s commitment to ever more sustainable mobility. This international success is the result of continuous listening to our customers’ needs. CROSSWAY is a true symbol of our ability to anticipate changes in the sector and to offer solutions tailored to tomorrow’s challenges,” said Claudio Passerini, President, Bus Business Unit, Iveco Group. The CROSSWAY range has expanded steadily, with the introduction of the Low Entry concept as early as 2007, followed in 2017 by a three-axle Low Entry version measuring 14.50 metres, demonstrating its ability to adapt and meet increasingly diverse operational requirements. Today, available in five versions
(Low Entry, Pop, Line, HV and Pro), in multiple lengths and with a wide range of powertrains, the CROSSWAY range provides operators with an unmatched choice: natural gas since 2017, hybrid since 2022, B100 since 2024, and 100% battery-electric versions launched in 2023 and 2024. The CROSSWAY is now present in more than 45 countries worldwide, including Africa, Asia and the Middle East and has been awarded with numerous industry awards, recent with the “International Busplaner Sustainability Award 2026”, presented in Berlin in the 12-metre electric bus category to the CROSSWAY Low Entry ELEC. It carries the experiences of millions of passengers: first school journeys, access to education, leisure and sport, and shared moments of everyday life. For twenty years, CROSSWAY has told the story of the women and men who, generation after generation, design, manufacture and continuously improve a vehicle that has become a daily companion on the road.