Another breakthrough for ADL, entering into Saudi Arabia transportation market... 600 new E500MMC in the contract... About 89 seats, total of 139 pax per E500...
Since early this year, S.A. received a demonstrator for demonstration...
http://www.arabnews.com/news/543106
http://arabianindustry.com/construction/news/2014/apr/27/alexander-dennis-targets-middle-east-bus-market-4677946/#.U9ZXsfmSwwA
With growing population in all these countries, DDs makes the most sense... In continental Europe - SDs are okay because population going on declining.
EUR car cheap, also mostly use diesel rather than petrol...
In Australia, ADL and Mercedes-Benz have not been doing very well in recent years.
Custom Coaches has gone into administration, while Mercedes-Benz Australia is limited in their product offering due to regulations on design specifications. At one point of time, MB Australia even considered assembling the Citaro in Australia so that they could offer it for sale (but obviously, that has not happened yet).