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First drive: 2015 Chevrolet SS in West Virginia USA

First drive: 2015 Chevrolet SS in West Virginia USA


On one of our trips to the United States last month, we managed to get behind the wheel of a car that a lot of people in the GCC want to buy, but is not officially offered in our part of the world. Well, not offered any more anyway. We drove the 2015 Chevrolet SS, a rebadged version of the facelifted one-and-only Holden Commodore from Australia, which in a previous life used to be sold in Saudi Arabia, UAE and elsewhere as the Chevrolet Lumina.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces new naming system

Mercedes-Benz introduces new naming system


Just like BMW, Cadillac and Infiniti, Mercedes-Benz has decided to revamp their entire naming system, because apparently they were afraid it was getting too complicated. But unlike the nonsense that the other luxury brands have been dishing out, the new Mercedes-Benz nomenclature makes slightly more sense in some ways.

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Toyota FJ Cruiser

Long-term update: Our Toyota FJ Cruiser has a bottomless tank

How does a fuel-tank range of 1000 km sound? It sounds great, especially if you don’t know your car even had that capability. You see, The Toyota FJ Cruiser has been around since 2006, and reached the Middle East in 2008, but it’s always suffered from a pathetic 72-litre fuel tank. However, in 2013, Toyota quietly added an 87-litre secondary tank to the FJ, effectively doubling its petrol capacity to 159 litres.

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First drive: 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat & SRT 392 in West Virginia USA (video)

First drive: 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat & SRT 392 in West Virginia USA (video)

There’s nothing more painful than attending an international launch event where you get to drive yet another slow crossover or copy-paste luxury sedan on some of the world’s best driving roads. We give these cars fair unbiased reviews in the interest of those who are interested in such cars, but the truth is we always yearn to drive something more special on such roads. Lo and behold, we found ourselves in Washington D.C., right around the corner from the White House, on a quest to drive two of the wildest sedans on the planet — the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT 392 and the Charger SRT Hellcat.

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