The focus of the region’s automotive aftermarket industry will be set on the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, as Automechanika Middle East 2010 got under way on Tuesday May 25th.
Alfardan Sports Motors Company, member of Alfardan Group and Maserati’s exclusive importer in Qatar, is the 2009 winner of the prestigious Maserati MEA Aftersales Importer of the Year award.
The facelifted 2011 BMW X5 has reached showrooms in Saudi Arabia, UAE and other GCC countries. While externally largely similar to the outgoing model, the real news is the adoption of turbocharged engines.
In a Turkish Grand Prix that at one stage seemed destined to yield Red Bull yet another one-two win, the team’s two drivers failed spectacularly, running into each other while in the lead, and handing the McLaren cars that one-two instead.
British-based tuning firm Kahn Design has unveiled a full interior and exterior kit for the Land Rover LR2, also known as the Freelander.
You know that all those years of being a good boy is paying off when people suddenly call up to offer you a black 2010 Chevy Camaro SS for the weekend. With an LS3 V8. And a manual transmission. For a second round. The manual SS is initially hard to drive, but having just about mastered the clutch-gearbox combo the last time, we figured we’d do something different this time around. We’ll do the first-ever fuel economy test for this car, while still driving in regular traffic at regular speeds.
After selling our 2005 Peugeot 307 XSI to my buddy, I had made a deal with him to fix the non-working windshield washers and replace the lost remote key. That turned out to be a bit of a hassle.
British firm Cosworth, known for creating factory-warrantied hypercars for a wide variety of manufacturers, has now come up with the Subaru Impreza WRX STI CS400 just for the UK market. Said to go up against supercars, the Cosworth Impreza certainly has the numbers to back it up.
As part of the “Tahoe Adventure Weekend,” where we hung out at the Le Meridien Al Aqah till last Sunday morning, we were each sent home to Dubai with a 2010 Chevrolet Tahoe to try out. I had picked the LTZ 4×4 model, and ended up keeping it right till this Thursday.
58 lucky winners of the Cadillac Driving Experience from around the region were treated to a five-star weekend at The Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, highlighted by “intense action” on the Yas Marina Circuit, the world-famous Formula 1 track.