If you missed the fire-breathing action of movies like Ford vs Ferrari and Top Gun, Roxy cinemas is giving you a rare chance that filmgoers in the UAE have always longed for – a motor-themed film festival! The ‘Need for Speed’ festival will run from 17th to 28th January at …
From the Newsvroom: Mid Jan 2024
Pole to Pole EV expedition reaches South Pole A pole-to-pole expedition set out to help raise global interest in electric mobility has achieved its goal when it came to a conclusion in Antarctica. Chris and Julie Ramsey, husband and wife adventurers, took 10 months to cover the 30,000 km adventure …
Toyota Urban Cruiser Neodrive review: Hybrid Standards
A subcompact crossover running on hybrid technology, Toyota Urban Cruiser Neodrive woos the urban driver with its promise of nearly 20 kilometres per litre and a host of standard features that is unrivalled, if only for the lack of rivals in this entry-level segment. The Design Toyota Urban Cruiser would …
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 …
Castrol rolls out new visual and sonic branding
Dubai, 10 October 2023 – Castrol, a global leader in lubricants, and part of the bp group, has unveiled its refreshed global brand identity in the Middle East. The brand refresh, which happened in March this year in many global markets, is aimed at better aligning the brand with its …
From the NEWSVROOM Mid October
News and happenings that drive the automotive world, especially in the UAE and the GCC… This edition tells you how International off-roading day was celebrated, reassuring introduction of an EV training centre in Dubai and what Porsche terms the Middle East’s largest car show… Let’s go vroom! Icons of Porsche …
Nissan drives awareness and tech to eliminate counterfeit
Nissan Middle East has been a leading driver of the initiative to reduce the presence of counterfeit spare parts in the region. We take a look at the efforts undertaken to tackle the issue in this exclusive interview with Thierry Sabbagh, President, Nissan Saudi Arabia, INFINITI Middle East and Managing …
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 …
Legendary Toyota Crown is back
Al-Futtaim Toyota yesterday launched the all-new Toyota Crown in the UAE, exuding an aura of luxury and equipped with hybrid turbo powertrains and the latest Toyota Safety Sense. In the early years of this millennia, you could still see a couple of those glorious Toyota Cressidas and Crowns plying the …
