BeamNG.drive – Articulated Frame Component for Bus
Articulated Frame Component for Bus is a long-running BeamNG.drive mod by slysenko. It does not add a new vehicle. Instead it adds new frame parts to the bus that already ships with the game, so the familiar city bus can be stretched into a bendy bus with one, two or even three joints.
What the mod does
BeamNG.drive’s stock bus is the Wentward DT40L, a rigid single-deck city bus that the game files still call “citybus”. The mod hooks into that vehicle’s parts tree. Open the Vehicle Config menu, go to the bus components list and pick “Articulated Frame” or “Bi-Articulated Frame” instead of the standard body. The extra sections become part of the bus itself, so it has to be driven like a real articulated bus, with wide lines through junctions and a lot more care when reversing.
The author lists three frame lengths with their seat counts:
| Frame | Sections | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Articulated | 33 + 32 | 65 |
| Bi-Articulated | 33 + 31 + 32 | 96 |
| Tri-Articulated | 33 + 31 + 31 + 32 | 127 |
slysenko says the project began as a quick experiment to see what driving such a bus feels like on a Logitech G27 wheel. The response from players was good enough that he decided to keep developing it toward a “production” level. On the mod page he still lists coupling these buses together into “trains” as a long-term idea, but no such feature has been released.
Versions and current state
When this post first went up in January 2022 the latest release was 0.1.3.9. We checked the BeamNG repository page again in late October 2026. It now shows version 0.1.4.2, released on August 29, 2022 as a maintenance update, after an “Update for version 0.25” on August 5, 2022 that followed BeamNG.drive’s 0.25 patch. The first release dates back to April 2018. The page does not name a supported game version for the current file, and the author has replied to a review that the mod is in maintenance mode and he has no time for major development.
The mod is popular for what it is. The repository page showed more than 208,000 downloads and close to 63,000 subscriptions, with an all-time rating of 4.84 out of 5. Some recent reviews from 2024 and 2025 report that the parking brake will not release after switching to an articulated frame, so expect rough edges on newer builds of the game.
The source files are also public on GitHub under the GPL-3.0 license.
Project on GitHub: https://github.com/sergey-lysenko/citybus-articulated-frame
How to install
- Open the download link below and use Subscribe, or find the mod through the in-game repository. The game installs it for you. A manual download is about 12.5 MB as a zip.
- Spawn the stock city bus.
- In the Vehicle Config menu, choose “Articulated Frame” or “Bi-Articulated Frame” in the bus components list and apply.
If you want more bus content, see our post on the Capsule double-decker bus for BeamNG.drive, or browse the BeamNG.drive category.
Credits: slysenko
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You can install from in-game.
