Mesfin Gebremariam Shawo, Consul General of the Ethiopian Consulate, Mumbai, flagged off the Alma Mammoth front-engine inter-city luxury coach built by Alma Motors, an MG Group enterprise, for export to Ethiopia in late December 2015. The Consul General flagged off the first five units of Left Hand Drive Mammoths out of the 32 units that will be exported to Ethiopia from the Alma Motors plant at Belgaum. Built on a MAN bus chassis according to Alma sources, until now two Right Hand Drive units of the Mammoth have been exported to Maldives. Attracting enquiries from other Asian, African and the Middle East markets, the Mammoth will soon enter the Indian market with an upgraded 280 hp engine. Present at the flag-off ceremony were Mohan Kamat, Founder & Chairman, MG Group, Anil Kamat, Executive Director, MG Group, Girish Prabhu, AGM – Product Design, MG Group, and two MAN Trucks India officials.