Audi is generally known as a carmaker that doesn’t take risks. Their design language, their cabin layouts and even their base engines have simply been mildly tweaked versions from generation to generation. But sometimes, they pull a fast one out of the hat. There was the TT. Then there was the R8. And next came the RS 7. And now there are the station-wagon twins — the RS 4 Avant and the RS 6 Avant.
This Dubai Shopping Festival, Al Habtoor Motors is offering Mitsubishi customers a chance to win a second car for free. Mitsubishi buyers will be issued special vouchers to win a vehicle to the purchase value of the vehicle they buy.
It’s fog season again here in the UAE, and for some reason, drivers here never learn. About 20 people were injured, one critically, in several crashes on Thursday morning on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai road after heavy fog reduced visibility for several hours into daylight.
Some loser managed to scrape the front bumper on our Toyota FJ Cruiser while it sat in the parking lot, running away without even leaving a note. Luckily, it looked like our truck left more damage on their car than the other way round.
It was in 2009 that the Rolls-Royce Ghost joined the British uber-luxury carmaker’s line-up to finally give some company to the larger Phantom. If it were a lesser brand like BMW, they’d be preparing an all-new model already. But the “new” Ghost Series II has simply received a subtle update for 2015. We spent an entire morning trying to figure out exactly what those changes were, in a media drive around the UAE.
There is a Nissan 370Z doing the rounds at events, dressed up in Dubai Ambulance livery. This is the first time we’ve had a close look at it.
Nissan Middle East set a new Guinness World Records title for the longest twin-vehicle drifting. Two Nissan Z cars drifted around a track at the same time without stopping for 28.52 km. The record was set in the second attempt during the launch of the Nissan 370Z Drift Experience in Dubai.
The recently-unveiled Dubai car numberplate with the new logo will be made available from tomorrow by the Road & Transport Authority.
We were on the lookout for a smooth rental highway runner on a restrained budget, but something with more poise than a regular Camry. The cheapstakes in us intentionally never looked beyond a basic Dodge Charger or a Ford Taurus, but what ultimately and least-expectedly came our way was something cheaper and more premium — a 2013 Mercedes-Benz E300.
While German luxury carmakers created the small premium crossover segment with half-hearted attempts like the BMW X3 and the Mercedes-Benz GLK, it was the Range Rover Evoque that blazed a path by showing that these things can actually be desirable rather than just be dull-looking wagons for soccer moms in Europe, considering the German early-birds never caught on in the GCC. Later attempts like the overpriced Porsche Macan are much more style-conscious, and the Americans are now trying their hand at this game too. This here is the 2015 Lincoln MKC, and it’s now on sale in the UAE.