[1] The main production sites are in Starachowice and Sady in Poland, but the models have also been built in Germany, Turkey and Malaysia.
[4] A production hybrid-electric version, the Lion's City Hybrid, which uses supercapacitors and two 67 kW electric motors is available since 2010.
Most are bodied in the local manufacturer's own styling, but some are licensed to replicate the Lion's City bodywork, usually in markets where MAN don't sell the integral variants.
This includes the East Lancs Kinetec for the UK market, which only replicate the front part and Gemilang Coachworks's version of the Lion's City, replicating the whole LHD bodywork for their (usually RHD) buses sold in Asia Pacific market, including the Lion's City Hybrid bodywork mounted on conventional diesel chassis.
In 2017, fifteen NL323F buses came into operation in EMT Malaga, all of them bodied by Castrosua Wrightbus initially developed a bodywork for the MAN NL273F, called the Wright Meridian.
Regal Busways, Newbury Buses and Diamond Bus North West each operate an handful of Wright Meridian-bodied NL273Fs across the United Kingdom.
It was taken out of service, returned to the dealership (ST Kinetics), de-registered and sent for Gemilang Coachworks of Malaysia re-bodied for export to Australia.
Due to unconventional Australian road standards, SMB138Y had to be rebodied with a MAN Lion's City Hybrid bodywork manufactured under license by Gemilang Coachworks.
Also, certain buses have been registered with APAD (Agensi Pengangkutan Awam Darat/Land Public Transport Agency) in Malaysia for cross-border bus 950.
SMRT had registered and reserved 20 MAN NL323F A22s as a direct replacement of Mercedes-Benz O405 (Hispano Carrocera OAC) upon the expiry of registration with APAD.
They are also bodied by Gemilang Coachworks with MAN Lion's City Bodywork with both ZF and Voith Gearbox.
It has since been retrofitted with overhead opportunity charging via pantograph with a secondary CCS2 plug-in charger and Linkker LinkDrive electric driveline.
The bus was then redeployed back on revenue service after approximately 4 years in 2021, repainted with LTA Lush Green livery and a new number plate of SG3100M (former SMB3075A).
However, the bus was plagued by several issues and was taken out of revenue service and was back on ST Engineering's premises for repairs.
[19] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 20 units of NL323F were deregistered and retrofitted into dedicated COVID-19 patient transport vehicles known as COMET MAXI.
This project is a collaboration between SMRT Corporation, HOPE Technik, Sheares Healthcare and Temasek Foundation.
These buses were repainted into a Silver Livery and pasted with perforated vinyl stickers intended for privacy.
[21] In November 2024, 2 units from A&S Transit were deregistered and scrapped because of mechanical issues that could not be fixed and it being costly to maintain.
At Brisbane Airport, Carbridge operates one imported and rebodied Gemilang Coachworks MAN NL323F from Singapore which was a demonstrator unit as SMB138Y for SMRT Buses with the MCV Evolution bodywork.
Dan Bus Company and Egged operate a fleet of NL313Fs and NL323Fs in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
The company later decided to choose other type of bus as the Centroliner bodywork cannot adapt Hong Kong climate, which lead to difficulties in repairing.
A concept bodywork design was unveiled in 2015, in the form of a 3-door bus built for Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA).
In November 2014, SMRT Buses was given a single MAN ND323F demonstrator (SMB5888H) for trial purposes at the manufacturer's request.
Following a successful trial run, SMRT Buses ordered 16 production batch MAN ND323F A95s which were delivered between August and November 2015 with tree guards pre-installed.
[28] In July 2018, a tender was awarded by LTA to ST Kinetics for the procurement of 111 MAN ND323Fs, which were delivered with subtle differences as compared to the earlier batches.
[31] In August 2014, Kwoon Chung Motors Company (KCM) ordered 9 ND323Fs replacing 8 Dennis Tridents and 1 MAN 24.310.
Moreover, in 2017, NLB purchased 16 ND363Fs with Gemilang Lion's city DD facelift body, they were delivered to Hong Kong since November 2017 and registered since February 2018.
In 2018, NLB purchased 5 ND363Fs with Gemilang's Lion's city DD facelift body which is equivalent to the previous order and equipped with MAN D 2066 LUH-51 engine.
In 2017, State Transit purchased 41 Gemilang Coachworks bodied MAN A95s for its Sydney B-Line service.
The production batch of NG363F A24 was delivered in 2015, built and bodied in Malaysia by Gemilang Coachworks, and debuted in May that year.