The fifth edition of the Emirates Classic Car Festival kicked off on the 7th of March with the largest showcase of classic cars and motorbikes to date. Featuring a line-up of more than 200 classic cars and motorbikes, the event is running on the Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai, somewhere near Dubai Mall, until March 9, 2013.
Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority plans to crack down harder on illegal transport services, which has seen an increase in the past few years, with violators facing confiscation of vehicles and repeat offenders likely to face jail time, followed by deportation.
Bridgestone Middle East and Africa officially opened Bridgestone Park, their new 21,678 metre-square facility in Jebel Ali Free Zone, recently.
Two new Salik toll gates will be installed in Dubai soon this year, according to the RTA. They’re set to go live by April 15.
A horrific accident on Al-Ain-Abu Dhabi Truck Road on February 4th left 24 dead and 24 more injured. A truck collided with a bus that was transporting workers.
DM Cube, a UAE-based event management company, has announced that they’re launching “THE AGELESS Mythical Cars Tour UAE 2013”, a regularity race scheduled to take place across the UAE from December 9 to 13, 2013.
Abu Dhabi Police has installed 15 new speed radars in the capital and have been functional since Tuesday.
The Road & Transport Authority in Dubai has announced that CARS garage will now offer annual vehicle testing and registration renewal services.
After Hurricane Sandy swept through parts of the United States in October 2012, it left a trail of devastation behind. Of course, caught in the ravage were thousands of cars. Some of these cars, about 15,000 of them, have been gathered up on the empty runways of Calvetron Executive Airport in New York State.
Anyone who’s been out and about in Dubai at 12 am for the last two years as the New Year ticked over, you’d have seen that the unusually-heavy traffic at the time comes to a standstill all over the city as soon as the celebratory Burj Khalifa fireworks begin. Apparently now your car will be impounded if you stop on a major highway to watch the 2013 show.