The journey of owning a car starts right when you spark an interest in a particular model. The many weeks of research, familiarization, checking with friends… but then it is just a beginning compared with the real journey of living with your car. So, my quest was to find out …
Bestune B70 review: Sedan Sense
SUVs are in fashion, if the past few years are an indication. Many popular brands including Ford, Chevrolet and even Volkswagen have underlined it with their shift in model line-up. Everyone seems to want an SUV – well, not everyone, thankfully. There are still takers for the classic four-wheeled sedan …
Bestune T99 review: Quiet premium
Bestune T99 from automotive manufacturers FAW is a midsize 5 seater SUV that at first glance stands for everything good the Chinese car brands have brought into this market, and there seems to be a reason for it. In the last couple of years, the number of new car brands and novel …
Bestune T77 review: Cut for the urban life
If consumers in the UAE are spoilt for choices, nowhere else is it more evident than in its dynamic automotive market. An unprecedented number of new arrivals are populating the market, many of them Chinese cars seeking their fortune in the new world order of trade and technology. As with …
Maserati Grecale review: The Everyday Exceptional
If Grecale sounds Greek to you, you are right, and if the new SUV from Maserati is designed to blow you away, Grecale is indeed a matching name. Before it was the name of Modena’s new SUV, Grecale was a Mediterranean wind rising from somewhere to the south of Malta. …
Mahindra Scorpio Pik Up: A thoughtful partner
Mahindra & Mahindra, or simply Mahindra as their gritty Jeep-like grille familiarises, has several claims to international fame – the recent and most impressive is perhaps the ownership of Automobili Pininfarina. The manufacturer of wheeled products from motorcycles to tractors had an output of over 14 million vehicles in 2022 …
Mercedes GLS 450 review: Rising senses
Two segments that have found a raging fire in their belly in recent months stand at both ends of the SUV spectrum. The sub compact SUV and the super-sized SUV. While the former is getting rather crowded, the latter is made of a good mix of premium options for large …
Huracan STO rumbles into the UAE
‘Based on a true story’. That is what the invitation card said about the model that was about to be unveiled. The true story referred to was the incredible and legendary victories of Lamborghini at Daytona for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2020. The lessons scraped off the track …
Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport: Agility vs Speed
What is more desirable in a sports car? How fast does it move or how does it move when fast? Bugatti Chiron Pur Sports tells us, it’s the latter. First glimpse: Drinking all the lights dancing on it, the new Bugatti Chiron assumed centre stage, never left to feel lonely …
Does Bugatti have a secret lucky number?
So, I stumbled upon this secret number game happening between the bumpers of Bugatti and dared to ask a Bugatti official about it. What followed was a mix of relief and disappointment! There is an undeniable advantage of having Maths as your favourite subject in school. The fascination for numbers …