Metalpar Iguazu O500M – Buenos Aires Colectivo Bus Mod

Metalpar Iguazu (O500M) – Argentine Buenos Aires Colectivo Bus

The Metalpar Iguazu is the signature urban bus body from Metalpar, the Argentine coachbuilder headquartered in San Antonio de Padua in Buenos Aires Province. This Proton Bus Simulator mod mounts the Iguazu body on the Mercedes-Benz O500M chassis — the mid-rear-engine 12-meter South American urban platform from Mercedes-Benz Brazil's São Bernardo do Campo plant — capturing the split-windshield Argentine front-end design and robust Latin American urban suspension that defines the body's daily service across Buenos Aires colectivo routes and Chilean Transantiago corridors.

Highlights and Features

• Drive the Metalpar Iguazu urban body built at Metalpar's San Antonio de Padua plant in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
• Operate on the Mercedes-Benz O500M chassis — the mid-rear-engine 12-meter South American urban platform from MB Brazil's São Bernardo do Campo plant
• Experience the recognizable split-windshield Iguazu front-end design and robust Latin American urban suspension built for mixed road conditions
• Deploy on Argentine, Chilean or generic Latin American urban maps where the Metalpar Iguazu fits its real-world colectivo and urban-corridor context

Compatibility and Technical Details

About the Real Metalpar Iguazu

The Metalpar Iguazu is the signature urban bus body family from Metalpar, the Argentine coachbuilder headquartered in San Antonio de Padua in Buenos Aires Province. Founded in the 1980s, Metalpar integrates imported chassis from Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Volkswagen into bodies built specifically for South American urban transit operators across Argentina and Chile. The Iguazu — named after the Iguazú falls on the Argentine-Brazilian border — is characterized by its split-windshield front-end design and the robust suspension required by mixed road conditions on Latin American urban service. This particular configuration is mounted on the Mercedes-Benz O500M chassis, the mid-rear-engine 12-meter urban platform built at Mercedes-Benz Brazil's São Bernardo do Campo plant for the South American market. The combination is widely deployed across Buenos Aires colectivos (the local term for the city's concession-operated transit fleet) as well as Mendoza and Córdoba in Argentina, and Santiago's Transantiago system and other Chilean cities through Metalpar's local presence.

Credits

Original 3D model: Victor Ortega. Conversion to Proton Bus Simulator: Bus Simulation Channel. Sound design: to be confirmed by the original conversion team. Released under the CC-BY-NC-SA license — re-edits permitted with attribution and share-alike requirements. Texture optimization for mobile performance: Proton Bus Mods.