European Car News

Renault Middle East is quietly celebrating their own little milestone in the region, selling more cars than ever this quarter and achieving their highest ever GCC market share. Granted, it’s only at 1.5% now, but there is cause to celebrate. Despite a decline in the region’s overall market, Renault Middle East actually managed a 0.29% increase in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same period last year. We sat down with Marwan Haidamous, Managing Director of Renault Middle East, for a chat on this as well as future products.

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Just a few days after the launch of Audi’s flagship SUV, the Audi Q8, BMW had played their card in the luxury SUV game with the fourth-generation 2019 BMW X5. The large SUV features updated looks and better features.

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As the overcrowded SUV segment heats up, Audi decides to up the game by releasing a new contender in the “sports utility coupe” segment to take the Mercedes GLE Coupe and the BMW X6 head-on. The all-new Audi Q8 is based on a shared platform that’s underneath everything from the VW Touareg and the Audi Q7 to the Lamborghini Urus, Porsche Cayenne and Bentley Bentayga.

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There are some proud dinosaurs in the petrolhead arena who cling on to the good old way of motoring even when the world moves on to other advanced technologies. Aston Martin has acknowledged their needs by revealing just the right kind of car. To these primitive petrolheads’ delight, Aston Martin’s Vantage V12 V600 with a proper manual gearbox is here as a limited edition.

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Mercedes Benz introduces a front wheel version of its third-generation Sprinter van which will join the rear and all-wheel driven models. This increases the available configurations of the Sprinter to more than 1700.  

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The Bentley Bentayga lineup, hot after the debut of the cheaper V8 model, now gets the Bentayga Plug-in Hybrid model and it was revealed at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. But Bentley has not released details about the output, battery capacity or the range of the new Hybrid.

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After giving the C-Class sedan a nip and tuck a few months ago, Mercedes Benz has turned their attention towards the Coupe, Cabriolet and the warm C43 AMG. The updates include a few visual tweaks and more power for the existing engines.

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Porsche paints the 2019 Cayenne lineup green with the introduction of the 2019 Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid. The green SUV boasts of an electric-only range of 44 km in the NEDC test.

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Despite being a massively preposterous idea, 6-wheeled behemoths of the car world have gained popularity as limited-edition publicity stunts, even with their price tags blown up beyond the horizon. Now to accompany the Mercedes AMG G63 6X6 and the Hennessey Velociraptor 6X6, a yacht company named T.Fotiadis Design has released a 6-wheeled Range Rover SLT model which aims to spice up the “boring” ride.

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The Mercedes AMG GT line-up has been growing ever since the first model debuted and caused a stir in the sports car world. But as the years go by, the range is getting diluted, not least of which is by the E-Class-based “four-door coupe.” Customers who wanted a convertible GT still got the real SLS-based chassis, but were confined to the fast AMG GT Roadster or the slightly faster AMG GT C. Now though, they get another one to pick from. Mercedes-Benz slots a new 2019 AMG GT-S Roadster between the standard GT and the GT C.

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