There’s a lot of stories in the air about Toyota’s future plans, so when we got the opportunity to have a chat with Takayuki Yoshitsugu, the new boss at Toyota Middle East & North Africa, we asked him some direct questions, two of which were about their 4×4 line-up. There’s good news.
Hyundai has revealed the 2015 i20, making its “World Premier” in India this month.
Kia has revealed pictures of the 2015 Sorento. It is set to debut at the 2014 Paris Motor Show.
An all-new third-generation Kia Sorento will be unveiled in Korea next month, featuring new styling inside and out. All they’ve released so far is an exaggerated sketch.
The facelifted 2015 Mitsubishi Pajero has been revealed, and is already heading to showrooms in Oman, followed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It is already on sale in Japan.
The Mazda 2 (or is it Mazda Mazda2?) has been around for a few years now, largely unchanged but not making much of a dent in the GCC market either. But in keeping with Mazda’s new design language, the 2015 model has now received a proper makeover.
The 2015 Nissan Sunny was launched in the GCC last week, at an event in Dubai.
Last week we did a list of the top cars researched by our readers this Ramadan. This week we take a look at the top ten luxury cars that are in consideration by our more affluent visitors. These figures were pulled from our internal stats, with a heavy UAE bias since most of our traffic is from our home-base. We’ve also stuck to only true luxury brands, rather than fit in luxury cars from mainstream brands.
Truth be told, I like this car. I’ve liked it ever since I saw photos of it a year ago. Yes, it’s been around that long in South-East Asia while we were still seeing that generic Japanese-built one around here. This new one’s built in Thailand, but from what we saw, that hasn’t made an ounce of difference in quality — it feels just as cheap as the Japanese one.
Ramadan Kareem to everyone. As the oldest automotive consumer website in the region (you can still read our reviews from 2004!) as well as the most popular among real car shoppers (our advertising budget is peanuts compared to the imitators that have popped up), we are in a good position to see exactly what people here are interested in buying, simply by looking at our stats. Here’s a rundown of the top ten cars being researched the most on DriveArabia.com this Ramadan across the GCC, with a bit of a bias towards the UAE.