We weren’t aware that there were any changes planned for the Honda Jazz anytime soon. So when Honda’s Middle East office offered us a test-drive of the 2012 Jazz, we were wondering what had changed. Turns out it is just a facelift.
The Superbus concept, which could give business commuters and tourists a new luxury high-speed link between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, “moves a step closer to fruition” in the UAE this week when it will be showcased outside Europe for the first time.
One man died and 61 people were injured when a multiple-car pile-up happened on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway on the 2nd of April. The huge crash involved 127 cars on the road heading into Dubai, early in the morning.
We attended a press conference today at Yas Marina Rotana that marked the launch of the 2011 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, the local desert rally event that attracts various international and local teams in a race across the inner sand dunes of the Emirates in cars, trucks and motorcycles. Highlights included overtaking a rally-modified Mini Countryman driving on the street, watching footage of previous races, and a hilarious episode where Mohammed Ben Sulayem jokingly got annoyed at being referred to as “MBS”.
وقد كشفت الشركة النقاب عن هذه الصالة، التي تعتبر الأضخم في العالم، خلال مؤتمر صحافي حضره الرئيس التنفيدي لشركة رولز-رويس موتور كارز، تورستن مولر-أوتفوش، والذي أتى خصيصاً لهذه المناسبة من المملكة المتحدة يرافقه عدد من مسؤولي الشركة رفيعي المستوى. وتأتي هذه الصالة التي تبلغ مساحتها 894 متراً مربعاً كجزء من مشروع إعادة تأهيل صالة العرض الحالية في أم النار وذلك ضمن استثمار تبلغ قيمته 220 مليون درهم إماراتي فيكون بذلك تتويجاً لخمس وعشرين سنة من التميّز والنجاح.
Abu Dhabi Motors, the dealer of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, has just opened the world’s largest Rolls-Royce showroom in the Umm Al Nar area of Abu Dhabi. It could be seen as a celebration of them being the biggest-selling Roll-sRoyce dealer in the Middle East and one of the top five dealers in the world, managing to sell more than a hundred cars last year for the first time.
The AMG version of the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe has debuted. We have to say, it doesn’t look as monstrous as the outgoing C-Class AMG model, but it will still have that insane 6.2-litre V8 engine.
The last Porsche World Roadshow for the UAE was held two years ago at the Dubai Autodrome. It was a superb event for highlighting the entire Porsche line-up in one go. Seemingly open only to existing Porsche customers and us media types, it was a well-organised event that got us some wheel-time with the 2009 models. We haven’t driven any 911s or Cayennes in the past two years since then, simply because Porsche refuses to give us test cars for more than a few hours, but they did invite us to the 2011 edition of the Porsche World Roadshow,
Inden Design has decided to make the 2011 Mercedes-Benz S500 to look more like the S65 AMG version. It’s probably because the price of the Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG is insanely high and this will offer consumers the same level of sporty looks but without the same level of oomph, not that we are saying this will be any cheaper. Performance is improved slightly, so it’s not all cosmetic.
The 2012 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show. Apparently named after a courageous bull, the light weight and new engine of the all-wheel drive Aventador will be more powerful and fuel-efficient than the Murcielago, the model its replacing.