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Bugatti GT Vision concept COVERSTORY | To influence new Veyron, designwise 20 Frankfurt Motor Show From the floor, we details the world’s finest automotive reveals 12 38 56 COVER STORY 20-23 BUGATTI VISION GT CONCEPT 24-29 2016 NISSAN MAXIMA NEXT ISSUE 30-33 2016 HYUNDAI TUCSON 2016 Audi RS7 OMAN AND REGIONAL NEWS 6-7 2016 NISSAN MAXIMA LAUNCH, CADILLAC V-SERIES EXPERIENCE EVENT HELD AT YAS MARINA CIRCUIT, ABU DHABI, LANCER DEALS IN OMAN, AMG PRIVATE LOUNGE LAUNCHED ONLINE, ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS PORTAL DUBIZZLE REBRANDED AS OLX, JAC TRUCK DISPLAY IN OMAN BRANDWATCH 8-11 VOLKSWAGEN FACES FLAK OVER DIESEL EMISSIONS MANIPULATION IN USA, INFINITI FINDS Q50 EAU ROUGE TOO COSTLY TO PRODUCE, TOYOTA-BMW CO-DEVELOPED SMALL SPORTS CAR STILL NOT DECIDED, CADILLAC TEASES XT5 WITH LIVE STUNT AT FASHIONS SHOW, JAGUAR F-PACE CREATES GUINNESS RECORD WITH RECORD- BREAKING 360-DEGREE LOOP, FORTHCOMING HOLLYWOOD FLICK SPECTRE BOND CARS REVEALED, V6 FOR ENTRY LEVEL FERRARI DINO? MORE SUVS AND SUV VARIANTS PLANNED BY CADILLAC, MERCEDES-BENZ MAYBACH AND ROLLS-ROYCE, GIUGIARO LAUNCHING NEW DESIGN FIRM INTERNATIONAL NEWS SPOTLIGHT 12-18 2015 FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW FIRST DRIVES 34-37 2015 CHRYSLER 300S 38-43 2016 LEXUS IS200T 44-49 2016 TOYOTA HILUX 62 50-55 2015 MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER FIRST RIDE 56-61 2015 YAMAHA MT 09 PREVIEWS 62-65 2016 BENTLEY BENTAGYA 66 66-69 2016 TESLA MODEL X SUV TECHTALK 70-75 DIRTY DIESELS? MOTORSPORTS 76-79 SUZUKA RACE REPORT AND SNIPPETS. F1 MCLAREN HOPES, FERRARI APOLOGY, BUTTON CONTRACT MOTOGP: SPAIN RACE REPORT AND REGIONAL MOTORSPORTS EVENTS CHICANE 80 It’s a MATTER OF TRUST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mohammad Al Taie AL ROYA PRESS & PUBLISHING PO Box: 343, Postal Code 118 Al Harthy Complex, Sultanate of Oman Email: [email protected] Website: www.automan.me Whew, what a month this has been! Nothing can describe the drama and disbelief that has been the hallmark of the month as a whole season’s worth of automotive activity played Editorial office: Tel: +968 24652400/1/2/3/4/5 Extn 300, out over the global scene. The month began with the biannual Frankfurt motorshow Fax: +968 24652444 generating some of the big ticket reveals we are so fond off. Whether at the show or Distribution: Tel: +968 24652400/1/2/3/4/5 Extn 555, elsewhere, debuts like the Rolls-Royce Dawn, the new BMW 7-series, the new A4 and Subscription: even Aston’s announcement of the DB11 all connected with the ethos of the show. Tel: +968 24652400/1/2/3/4/5 Extn 650 But it was the later half of the month that really took our collective breath away. Volkswagen PUBLISHER Hatim Al Taie [email protected] was caught out in the United States. If you haven’t read about what the issue is already, you can catch up with our rather extensive coverage inside the magazine. While the EDITOR & GM issue of clean diesel not meeting expectations is literally half a world away from us in the Raj Warrior [email protected] region, the bigger issue of how the company reorganises and charts it path into the future, EXECUTIVE EDITOR including rejigging its engine mix, will definitely affect the group brands in global markets. Chandan B Mallik [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Our cover story for this month marks a departure from our norm, largely because it is a Anne Kurian [email protected] once in a decade event when a brand like Bugatti announces anything new. In addition to that, the market for the ultra rich seems to be the only one that isn’t significantly affected HEAD OF DESIGN Antony Karlo by the meltdown in crude oil prices. Almost all the big announcements we have had in this half of the year are to do with cars for the mega spender – or SUVs when you count PHOTOGRAPHY the Bentayga. Elvis John Ferrao MARKETING While on the subject of the Bentayga, it looks like the title of the world’s fastest SUV is Sayantani Ghosh [email protected] under threat already. We don’t even have to look as far as a tuned custom-built challenger CIRCULATION to the Bentayga. Technology and the ability to look outside the box has resulted in the [email protected] Model X from Tesla. When Elon Musk sets out to redefine a market segment, you shouldn’t expect anything less than this – the fastest SUV albeit an electric one. It isn’t anywhere as FINANCE & ADMIN Sumy Mol [email protected] costly as the RO 100,000 price tag of the Bentayga, but may just be the vehicle that the super rich use to show their green credentials. WEBSITE & IT Mohammed F Draz [email protected] As for regular launches, we have the test drive of the brand new Maxima, the new DISTRIBUTION Outlander, the highly intelligent smaller engine IS 200t and even the Toyota HiLux. These UNITED ARAB EMIRATES are joined by our editor’s personal review of his latest toy – the Yamaha MT-09. As far as Dar Al Hikma LLC [email protected] Tel: +971-4-2665394 | Fax: +971-4-2669827 bikes go, it isn’t the greenest one. But then you sometimes just need to have fun. PRINTER Al Anan Printing Press LLC Tel: +968 24446163 | Fax: +968 24446287 alananprinting.com | [email protected] © 2015 All editorial content of Automan in the magazine and its website is copyrighted and may not be repro- duced in any form without the written consent of the Now, Automan is available in bookshops in management of AL ROYA PRESS & PUBLISHING the United Arab Emirates too! Get your copy Automan accepts unsolicited exclusive editorial or let us know which outlets you would like material, but reserves the right to publish any such material. Once published, the copyright for any to see us in such material will vest with AL ROYA PRESS & PUBLISHING Nissan has introduced the completely redesigned Gen VIII all-new Gen VIII all-new Nissan Maxima Nissan Maxima 2016 for the Middle East in Dubai last month. According to Nissan Middle East, the new arrival is set to re- launched for ME define its segment as it brings head turning design, enhanced performance and state-of-the-art technology applications. Nissan is positioning the Maxima as a unique combination of sports car style with premium elegance. Nissan Middle East Managing Director, Samir Cherfan, commented: “The dramatically styled all-new Nissan Maxima 2016, created by driving enthusiasts for driving enthusiasts, looks like nothing else on the road today – and drives like nothing in the segment. It not only resets Nissan Maxima’s iconic ‘4-Door Sports Car’ positioning, it sets a new standard for style, performance and technology in the large sedan segment. The new Nissan Maxima reinvents what has been essentially a conservative segment. It raises the bar incredibly high in class-leading design, fuel efficiency, performance and technology. The market hasn’t seen anything as exciting as this within this segment.” With the new model, Nissan expects to NEWS Oman & region command a 12percent share in the E-segment in the GCC, with a goal of selling around 7,000 vehicles, an increase of more than 70 per cent in sales compared to 2014. [Eds note: see first drive impressions in this issue of Automan] Cadillac V-Series week celebrated As part of a high voltage media and customer event, Cadillac Middle East offered guests to try out the latest trio of performance V-badged cars at the Yas Marina circuit. The cars included the CTS sedan, coupe and sedan variants of the ATS. While the ATS uses supercharging, the ATS V-family charges in with the performance sub brand’s first turbocharged entry. For the event, Cadillac specially flew in Tony Roma, vehicle chief engineer for the Cadillac CTS and V series programme from US. Roma works in the Global Performance Luxury Car group reporting to Dave Leone, the Executive Chief Engineer. Roma leads the team of engineers Tony Roma who designed and developed the Vehicle chief engineer award-winning Cadillac CTS and has for the Cadillac CTS also been involved with the design and and V series programme. development of the Cadillac ATS-V and CTS-V in particular. Over 182 customers experienced the cars besides regional media including Automan. Since its inception in 2004, Cadillac’s V-Series has driven remarkable power and performance capability into the brand’s growing luxury car range. Building on the strengths of the award-winning ATS product line, the V-Series adds impressive track capability to what was already the lightest and most agile-driving car in the luxury compact class. The result is a dual-purpose luxury performer – a car with true track capability right from the factory that is also a sophisticated luxury car on the road. 6 OCT 2015 Dubizzle rebranded as OLX Dubizzle, a popular buy and sell online classifieds website operating in Middle East has rebranded its platforms [desktop, mobile and apps] last month. The web domain has changed to olx.com.om and all traffic generated towards dubizzle.com is now automatically directed to olx.com.om. AMG Private Lounge launched online Explaining the change, Abdallah Touqan, Owners of Mercedes AMG branded cars in the Middle East and Levant are being Senior PR and Communications Lead at invited to join a global community of AMG experts and drivers from more than 100 dubizzle said: “With the rebranding to OLX countries around the world through the AMG Private Lounge – a web-based platform dubizzle is now fully part of the world’s designed exclusively for Mercedes-AMG drivers.