Tickets for the Gulf Bike Expo 2010 are now on sale. The three-day fiesta of bikes, music and fashion will include concerts from
Nickelback and Status Quo, an exhibition featuring hundreds of bikes by Ducatti, Suzuki, Kawaski, Honda and Harley Davidson and more, as well as fashion from brands such as Ed Hardy.
With a top speed of 322.3 kph, German tuner Brabus claims that their new modified Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class crossover has set a new speed record for street-legal SUVs on an Italian high-speed test track in October. That’s because the exclusive special model is powered by a twin-turbo V12 engine. Incidentally, it will also makes its world debut at the 2009 Dubai Motor Show.
Mitsubishi vehicles have always been ‘a great value buy’ for customers in the UAE. Ten lucky winners who bought Mitsubishi vehicles from Al Habtoor Motors during the recently concluded ‘His & Hers’ promotion will begin their New Year with a big celebration in London.
In line with Renault’s plans to expand its reach and services within the city of Kuwait, the French car manufacturer recently launched a new service workshop in Kuwait with local partners, Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al Babtain Company.
Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, owner of the Al-Anabi Group of Drag Racing Teams in the US and the Middle East, and one of the leading figures in motorsport in the region as well as an experienced competition driver, yesterday sampled a different motorsport code behind the wheel of a Williams FW32.
The paid parking scheme in the capital will be extended to 3,725 spaces located between Hamdan Street and Zayed II Street during the first quarter of next year, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Honda will not be taking part in the 2009 Dubai Motor Show. However, they have chosen instead to showcase their upcoming GCC-spec models for next year at a press event next week. The new models consist of the marque’s funkiest models, in what looks like an attempt to inject some excitement into an otherwise boring UAE line-up of family cars.
The 2009 edition of the Dubai Motor Show will run from the 16th to the 20th of December, at the exhibition halls of the Dubai World Trade Centre. Numerous cars will be displayed for the first time in the UAE, with a handful of world premieres as well.
The Honda CR-X of the 1980s was a Civic-based hatchback-liftback-coupe combo that catapulted Honda’s status among compact sports cars, even if it was rather humble on the spec sheet. Honda has already announced the revival of the car as the CR-Z hybrid, with a concept version already shown at recent auto shows. The brochure for the production version has been leaked.
The all-new Bentley Mulsanne debuted in the UAE at an event held in Dubai. While we likely looked at a pre-production example, it offered us a view of the complete car as well as what goes into making a customised customer car.