J.D. Power is well-known in the United States, offering up annual results for customer satisfaction and reliability surveys, although some say they should be taken with a pinch of salt. J.D. Power is now doing surveys in the UAE, and they’ve just released their 2018 UAE Customer Service Index (CSI) Study. And they have ranked non-luxury and luxury brands in terms of customer service.
Alfa Romeo, Fiat-Chrysler’s second-tier luxury brand that’s in comeback mode, dropped a bomb when their new rear-wheel-drive Giulia Quadrofoglio became the quickest sedan to lap the ‘Ring (at least at the time). While the hype from that 2015 run has faded, we finally got our hands on it to see if this car will save Alfa.
Mini showed off a refreshed version of their classic Mini Cooper models at the 2018 Detroit Motor Show. This refresh included both the two and four-door hardtop and convertible models.
A couple of months after the all-new 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class was revealed, their in-house tuners, AMG, unveiled the mental version, the 2019 Mercedes Benz G63 AMG.
Lamborghini had dropped the top of the Huracan Performante that they revealed a year ago. This here is the exhaustively-named Lamborghini Huracan Performante Spyder, unveiled at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show.
There are two ways to make a car go faster. Add more power or lose some weight. In the case of the Bugatti Chiron, which is filled to the brim with power, the latter is the most favoured choice. So, at the ongoing Geneva Motor Show, Bugatti uncovered the Bugatti Chiron Sport, which is 18 kilos lighter, faster around corners, and preposterously more expensive.
The horsepower game in the automotive battleground is more intense than ever. Recently, we’ve seen many cars that effortlessly breached the 1000 hp mark but now there’s a car that almost brushes the 2000 hp mark. With 1914 hp at its disposal, the Rimac Concept Two is a tower of power. This all-electric hypercar follows the steps of the Rimac Concept One, which had “only” 1073 hp.
Danish hypercar manufacturer, Zenvo, came to the limelight a few years ago when the Zenvo ST1 was released with 1104 hp. Now at the 2018 Geneva motor show, they’ve unveiled a new model with even more performance. Called the Zenvo TSR-S, it is essentially a track-focused, road-legal hypercar.
The minivan segment may be dying, but there are quite a few players trying to keep it alive. Honda, Chrysler and Kia offer the only mainstream ones in the GCC. Toyota does a jurassic-era fleet-spec one. BMW and Opel offer a couple of poorly-received ones. And then there is Mercedes-Benz, who have converted a commercial van into a luxury people-carrier, much like what Volkswagen did with their Transporter Multivan.
Peugeot 508 was the brand’s flagship sedan when the first generation model was released in 2011. Six years later, they’ve introduced the next generation model with sharper aesthetics and a better set of engines.