The 2011 Canadian F1 Grand Prix was held a few days ago. While Formula One does not interest us, certain on-track antics make for fun viewing. In what looks like amateur hour, one of the race marshals stepped out onto the track to help clear the debris from a previous incident, all while cars are still racing. And then he slipped and fell. Twice.
Watch what happens when an idiot parks their car, blocking the way for a bunch of other cars. Some of you living in the UAE can identify with this. Looks like it happens in Europe too. The ending is hilarious.
As news still trickles in about the earthquake in Tokyo that measured a massive 8.9 on the Richter scale, Japan’s largest earthquake ever has also created a tsunami that flooded cities, washed away cars and caused surrounding countries as far as New Zealand, Hawaii and the Philipines to issue alerts.
Casual video interview with Simon Frith, the Managing Director of Al Futtaim Motors, the UAE dealer for Toyota. Topics include the Toyota Zelas launch during the 2010 Abu Dhabi Motor Show, the FT-86 launch date, the rising prices, the best sellers and the surprising sales figures for the Toyota Land Cruiser range.
By now, you’d know that Ferrari’s marketing army will do just about anything to make you think their cars are invincible. We were not going to bother with this Ferrari FF video, but then we started watching it. The promo is absolutely stunning, with an amazing soundtrack consisting of engine sounds and epic music, with footage of the Ferrari Four doing things like offroading in the snow, driving between dunes and even making an appearance at the Ferrari World theme park in Abu Dhabi! Even if you hate this car, watch it, and if you don’t get goose-bumps, there’s a VW Golf Cabrio waiting for you.
Here is our exclusive video of the 2011 Volvo S60 in a demonstration of its City Safety features, at the launch event in Dubai a few months ago. The camerawork is by our photographer Faisal Khatib, with narration and driving by Volvo representatives.
Forget the 0-100 sprints and the lap times. When it comes down to a muscle car like the 2011 Ford Mustang GT, it needs to be practical to sell. Otherwise, if cars sold solely on its performance credentials, Ford would just build a two-seater with no boot, and no leather, and no radio.
Here’s something to inflame the bearded folks. A whopping 19 teenage girls stuffed into a two-seater Smart ForTwo to set a new world record. For the Guiness Book of World Records. In Pakistan. Who would’ve thought that the country to beat the previous record of 18 by Australia would be Pakistan? And girls, no less.
When the Skoda dealer rep dropped off the 2011 Superb 3.6 at our doorstep and gave me a briefing, he chose to swiftly mention one little feature, called Park Assist, which we thought was just a parking sensor system. Later we were digging through the instruction manual to figure out where the USB port was (there isn’t one), and we found the section that told us how to operate the automatic parallel parking feature!
It’s the season of remakes, and the legendary video game Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit has been relaunched with shiny new graphics and gameplay. To promote the game, the game’s makers seem to be going all out, releasing this promo video of a real life car chase between a Pagani Zonda and a Lamborghini Murcielago police car. If only games looks that good.