Asian Car News

The 2009 Infiniti G37 sedan is finally on sale in the UAE and other GCC countries. While it looks exactly the same as the outgoing G35, it receives a new engine and auto gearbox this year.

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The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X was first introduced in 2008, but while the whole world, including the GCC, has received only a single version, Mitsubishi Motors in the UK regularly adds special models to their line-up. The UK now has a new Evo X FQ-330 SST model to look forward to.

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The 2010 Subaru Legacy sedan was unveiled a few months ago at the recent New York auto show, and while it is unknown when the new model will come to the GCC, the Japanese market already has a wagon version of the Legacy, showing the dimwitted designers at VW how to draw a proper station wagon.

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The first-generation Nissan Murano was launched in the UAE only in 2005, but the Japanese-built crossover had been on sale since 2003 in the United States. The NHTSA, America’s transport safety agency, has ordered Nissan to recall about 360,000 first-generation Murano models in the U.S. because of a defect that can cause an engine stall. Apparently, the material used for the Murano’s air-intake ducts is prematurely aging and shrinking, leading to a risk of separation in the system. That separation can cause an engine stall if the debris gets sucked into the engine.

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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Nissan claims that their GT-R has broken its own Nurburgring record yet again, with a time of 7 minutes 26.70 seconds.

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The Korean-built Chevrolet Aveo, universally accepted as among the worst cars ever created, has been living on borrowed time since being introduced in 2002, and continues for 2010 with yet another facelift.

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While the GCC market gets only one version of the Lexus IS sedan, other markets are already playing with various IS versions and engine choices, including a brand new IS C hard-top convertible version. To make matters even more envious, Lexus offers an F-Sport package for other markets that includes dealer-fitted performance mods.

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An American website called Edmunds.com is reporting that Nissan is continuing with their previously-mentioned plans to develop a convertible version of the Nissan Murano.

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Growing up in Dubai, my memory suggests that the Toyota Crown was cancelled in the UAE by the early ’90s with the arrival of Lexus. However, the Crown soldiered on in its Japanese home market, where it continues to be on sale, competing with their own Lexus LS for conservative fat-cat customers. The fifth-generation Crown Majesta happens to be Toyota’s flagship in Japan.

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The most famous launch at the recent 2009 Shanghai Auto Show was the Geely GE, a car so blatantly derivative of its source material that Rolls Royce considered suing the Chinese company for copyright infringement.

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