After more than a decade stagnating as the outdated entry-level Aston Martin, the British carmaker has revealed the 2018 Aston Martin Vantage, with styling inspired by the DB10 concept featured in the last James Bond movie. Alongside the global reveal, the new Vantage was shown at a media event in Dubai as well.
The car manufacturing scene in Australia is slowly nearing a curtain fall as Toyota and Holden, two of Australia’s leading car companies closed down their manufacturing plants in just a span of three weeks. But what fuelled it?
Al-Futtaim may be best known in the UAE as a Toyota dealer, so this news was a bit of a surprise — Groupe Renault and Al-Futtaim announced that they have signed definitive agreements for the exclusive assembly and distribution of Renault vehicles in Pakistan.
Chevrolet introduced the 2019 Corvette ZR1 at a global media event in Dubai, just before the 2017 Dubai Motor Show where UAE residents were the first to get a public look at the supercar-baiting American.
The UAE dealer for Toyota, Al-Futtaim Motors, will now offer the 2018 Camry Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) for sale to the general public. Previous hybrid versions were only sold to taxi fleets in Dubai. Displayed at the 2017 Dubai Motor Show, the 2018 hybrid was the only variant of the all-new redesigned Camry to be revealed in the UAE so far.
With two podium finishes at the last round in Bahrain, the Porsche LMP Team bid a fond farewell to the FIA World Endurance Championship. Drivers Earl Bamber, Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley, who were crowned world champions two weeks ago, finished second in what was an incident-filled 2017 finale.
The gorgeous Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato lineup, which contains the Coupe and Volante, now also gets the Speedster and Shooting Brake.
Over the past few years, Tesla has projected themselves as a company hell-bent on making the electrified future of motoring an exciting prospect. After a bunch of genuinely exciting electric cars, they have now turned their attention towards the commercial segment. At the same event where Tesla unveiled their Roadster, the Tesla Semi truck was also shown off along with a small glimpse of the upcoming pick-up truck.
When the Porsche Cayenne was first announced by the German manufacturer, everyone thought it will be beginning of the end of a brand which had a long heritage of building legendary sports cars. Fast forward 14 years later, and the Cayenne is one of their top selling models, and now with the introduction of the third-generation model, Porsche just makes it drive even more like a sports car.
The Tesla Roadster is back in an all-new suit for 2020. Following the footsteps of the original Tesla Roadster that came in 2006 as a Lotus-derived model, this new one is completely original. The new Tesla Roadster does not just improve on the original model’s performance — it smokes it as well as every other hypercar out there.