At the UITP Summit in Hamburg, RTA Dubai, United Motors & Heavy Equipment Co. LLC and MAN Truck & Bus signed a contract for the delivery of 400 MAN Lion's City buses. The new fleet is scheduled to enter service in early 2026. Delivery of the city buses from October 2025, with operation scheduled to start in January 2026. The vehicles are equipped with advanced safety systems and Euro 6 engines.

The 12-metre MAN Lion's City buses will be powered by a 330 hp 9-litre diesel engine (D1556) that meets the Euro 6 emissions standard. Each bus will have 35 seats and is equipped with advanced safety systems, including ESP (Electronic Stability Program), Lane Departure Warning, Collision Warning, Emergency Brake Assist (EBA) and Turn Assist. The vehicles therefore comply with international standards in terms of safety and accessibility: Class 1 and 2 approval, ECE R66/02, ECE R118, ECE R107 and ECE R36. The partnership between RTA Dubai and United Motors exists since 2008 and began with the delivery of 150 NEOPLAN articulated buses, 75 NEOPLAN solo buses and 170 NEOPLAN double-decker buses. This was followed in 2017 by the handover of a further 79 MAN double-deckers, which further strengthened the capacity and performance of the RTA fleet. Today, around 200 city buses from the two brands MAN and NEOPLAN are still in use. Some of these have now achieved an impressive mileage of almost two million kilometers, as MAN proudly reports. Signing the contract: Khalifa Saif Darwish, Managing Director of United Motors (seated left); Ahmed Hashem Bahrozyan, CEO, Public Transport Agency, RTA (seated right); Barbaros Oktay, Head of Bus at MAN Truck & Bus (standing left); Matar Al Tayer, Director General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, RTA (standing right).