Car buyers traditionally look forward to the generosity of car dealers during the season of Ramadan. This year, the offers started flowing in early. The lowered prices and big offers were attributed to a drop in the Euro values (despite the fact that most of Dubai dealers write cheques in …
Lexus GX 460 review: Comfort in a box
Once upon a time, when the price of the Prado hadn’t yet climbed higher than the highest dune it ever climbed, a friend of mine bought one. He justified his choice as something close to the Land Cruiser with a price that was nowhere close. Yet, as I later found …
Jaguar XE supercharges UAE sport saloon segment
Give it a couple of months, the wait would have completed a whole year; the pangs of anticipation were already unbearable. That’s when the Jaguar XE addressed the media and several ecstatic customers of Al Tayer Motors from the podium of the Four Seasons Resort’s ballroom. The XE could speak …
Bold Toyota unveils New Camry 2016
Things had almost come to a point where car buyers had to be bold to buy the Toyota Camry. Self-proclaimed aficionados couldn’t utter the five-letter word without disfiguring their mouths with a derisive smirk. That is because no one likes five-letter words that are synonymous with ‘boringly value-for-money’, tediously enduring …
Nissan sells more Patrol than Sunny
If you have been seeing one too many Nissan Patrols on the roads, you aren’t seeing things, confirmed Nissan Middle East’s Managing Director Samir Cherfan. Nissan set the right At.mosphere on the 123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa and they seemed to have every reason to feel on top of …
Ford helps moms steady their driving steps
Women could be good at multi-tasking. But they could be in need of some training when one of those tasks involves parking a car or driving it, or simply engaging the child seat. Ford turns America’s mother’s day into a life skills training for moms in Dubai. If you’ve ever …
All New BMW X5 Review: Sensational with a capital M
If the Range Rover had fresh thinking infused into it in 2012, could the BMW X5 remain the same for long? After all, aren’t they the arch rivals SUV buyers here consider at length, before some of them finally pick the spicier Cayenne. So in 2013, the BMW X5 appeared …
UAE gets to view the latest Ferrari 488 GTB
UAE will have the honour of being one of the first markets to receive the latest fare from Ferrari. The mid-rear-engined 488 GTB will arrive next week. The V8 Berlinetta will give you a chance to come face to face with it, before it becomes just a flash on the …
Four weeks to first Audi Sport TT Cup
The youngest driver is 17 years old, the oldest 25 and the 18 racers are from 13 different nations. On the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain, they drove the Audi TT cup car and gathered experience and useful data over a distance nearly 7,700 kilometers. The inaugural race of the …
New York Auto Show spotlight: 2016 Nissan Maxima eighth gen
The biggest news from Nissan stables this quarter should be the reveal of the eighth generation Maxima. The 2016 model made its debut at the New York International Auto Show. Positioned as the “4-Door Sports Car”, the new Maxima features a 300-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 and new lighter, yet more rigid …
