The Cullinan is a big deal for Rolls-Royce. And you know the new SUV is important to our region when the model hits UAE roads within weeks of the international drive event in the United States. While we weren’t invited to that U.S. one, we did get to try out the British carmaker’s first offroader in Dubai, if only on a strictly onroad drive.
Volkswagen T-Cross, the brand’s smallest SUV offering has been on the news for sometime now. And after many months of teasing, it finally shows its production-ready face to the public.
Remember the BMW 8-Series? A large, eye-catching coupe built from 1990-99, it was in many ways a pioneer for the Bavarian brand. Apart from the low-volume M1 sold in the early-’80s, the 8-Series is the only BeeEm to date with pop-up headlights, and its other claims to fame include being the Bavarian brand’s only V12 model to be offered with a six-speed manual gearbox. What’s more, it was one of the company’s first vehicles to feature a multilink rear axle.
The McLaren F1 is revered to be one of the best, if not the best supercar the world has ever seen. Even though the British brand churned out many supercars and some hyper cars, none of them had been even remotely considered to be a successor to the legendary F1, although there is a new model that will attempt to do so yet again.
BMW came up with the new-generation X5 SUV last June. Now they’ve modernised the lineup by electrifying the X5. The BMW X5 xDrive45e comes in as a replacement for the xDrive40e X5 model that was already offered.
Climbing to the top of the unloved BMW X2 crossover range is the first ever four-cylinder M-Performance branded model, called the BMW X2 M35i.
The Audi R8 comes with an aggressive facelift for 2019, and importantly, the same naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 under its hood rather than a turbo-V6. And to much delight, it also comes with a boost in power.
After more than a decade with just mild updates, an all-new Bentley Continental GT is upon us. We don’t mean to sound snooty, but we had driven different variations of the old model so many times (and Bentley was generous with new test cars annually) that at some point, we just stopped taking them because we couldn’t find much new to write about them. Yep, we said no to Bentleys. It was an excellent car, and we almost bought one for our long-term fleet years ago, but it felt like we had enough of it already. The new one changes all that with one major redesign.
After 4 years since it was first announced, BMW’s late answer to the full-size niche is here, not that anyone was particularly asking for it. This large SUV will sit above the X5 and will aptly be called the BMW X7.
When Mercedes-AMG revealed the GT “4-door coupe” a few months ago, it didn’t creates as much of a splash as the Porsche Panamera, seeing as it was just another reskinned E-Class alongside the CLS “4-door coupe” that still exists as well. And in its 53, 63 and 63 S flavours, it was placed a little too high in the fiscal ladder for many to lay their hands on one. But now, a new base model, called the Mercedes-AMG GT43, slots into the range, opening it up to more people.