120 December 2016 www.bahrainthismonth.com New Model Makes Debut Prestigious Luxury Award The GMC 2017 Acadia was launched during a stylish event at the marque’s showroom in Sitra. The vehicle comes packed with an expanded range of available active safety features and a new 310bhp 3.6-litre engine. The strategic re-scoping of the 2017 Acadia offers customers a midsized crossover positioned between the compact Terrain and full-sized Yukon. Depending on the model, it is available with five-, six- or seven-passenger seating, while offering greater manoeuvrability and enhanced driving dynamics over the first-generation model. The new model offers the latest active safety features and a plethora of technologies. The Middle East’s newest luxury car, the Genesis G90, has won the prestigious Best Sedan Luxury Car of the Year Award at the exclusive EXCS Motor Show in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With the award decided by a panel of top motoring journalists, the win is a recognition of the G90’s superior levels of quality, engineering, technology and comfort, and coincides with the luxury brand’s launch into the Saudi Arabian market. Introduced to the Middle East market at a media launch in Dubai in September, the G90 is the flagship model for the Genesis brand. As well as offering elite standards of luxury, the large sedan leads the market in its use of the latest technical innovations, including advanced safety and driver assistance features developed as part of research into autonomous vehicles. The G90 offers a choice of three V6 and V8 engines, including an all-new twin-turbo option, and has been engineered from the ground up to offer the most discerning customers a distinctive choice. A delegation from Ebrahim K. Kanoo, the distributor of Toyota and Lexus in Bahrain, paid a visit to Al Jabriya Industrial School to inspect its new Body and Paint Training Centre, which the company is sponsoring. The first of its kind among the Kingdom’s industrial schools, it now provides an additional avenue for students to develop their skills. An official inauguration for the facility will be announced soon. The Ebrahim K. Kanoo delegation was headed by director of corporate services, Talal Fuad Kanoo. He explains: “This is an important corporate sustainability initiative for us, which helps prepare and train Bahrainis for the needs of the Kingdom’s marketplace. We hope that this centre will contribute to raising the maintenance and safety standard of the entire automotive sector in Bahrain.” Beating the best rival performance cars that Europe can muster, the acclaimed Lotus Evora 400 has seized second in Road & Track’s celebrated Performance Car of the Year for 2017. Shunning indirect and stilted systems, the mean machine utilises intelligent engineering to deliver a pure and intuitive driving experience. Lighter, faster and drastically more dynamic than its predecessor, the Evora 400 bested the rest of the Europeans to impress the Road & Track judges and force the final decision to the line – just missing out on first place. Reserved for the best of the best, the annual Road & Track fixture sees only the finest cars compete. Be it measured by outright speed, acceleration or handling, each year the specially selected finalists have been genuine driving giants. Identified ahead of the Performance Car of the Year group test as the ‘underdog sleeper pick’, the Evora 400 went on to claim significant scalps, including the Audi R8 V10 Plus, BMW M4 GTS, Jaguar F-Type SVR coupe, McLaren 570S and Porsche 911 Turbo S. Ultimately, it was only beaten by the Acura NSX, a car, as tested, costing USD202,960 – almost twice as much as the tested USD103,585 Lotus. Road & Track Performance Car of the Year motoringnews&launches New Body and Paint Training Centre
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