The bus was also exported to different countries, built locally in France, Slovenia, Turkey, and the United States.

After the joint venture with AM General ended, MAN opened its own assembly plant in Cleveland, North Carolina to produce the SG 220 and its closely related derivative SG 310 (starting in 1981) until it abruptly withdrew from the United States transit bus market in 1988.

[4] Two European-built articulated buses were tested by AC Transit and Seattle Metro in the summer of 1974: one based on the Volvo B58 chassis, and the MAN SG 192 [de].

[1]: Table 1 [5] Riders received the MAN bus favorably, and the specification was released for bid in 1975;[6] the pooled purchase consortium, which by then had grown to encompass ten transit districts, awarded the order to AM General in August 1976.

Several operators in the United States formed a pooled purchase consortium and awarded the bid to the AM General/MAN joint venture (the sole bidder)[12]: 3–9  for over two hundred buses.