As the summer cools its heels in the sands and greens, the simmering heat of motoring action takes over the tracks of the UAE. Already flagging off the racing season with the Radcal Winter Cup, NGK Cup and Gulf 1000 series last week at Yas Marina, the 2013-14 season highlight …
Al Nabooda Racing vows to repeat double in new Porsche GT3 season
Winning a trophy isn’t really hardwork for Mr. K. Rajaram, the CEO of Al Nabooda Automobiles and kingpin of Al Nabooda Racing. He only has to ask for it, and his boys will get it for him. It happened last year, and he is convinced it will happen again. So, …
Lincoln launches All-New MKZ at GITEX
Revealed at a special event hosted at the Lincoln stand at GITEX Technology Week 2013, the all-new Lincoln MKZ is a significant step in Lincoln brand’s reinvention in the region. First vehicle from the dedicated Lincoln Design Studio • Push Button Shift gear selector • 15.2 square-foot retractable Panoramic Roof …
Top automotive brands in Interbrand 100: DriveME exclusive
The annual ranking of top global brands is out, as put together by Interbrand. 14 in the list are automotive brands and little has changed from the last year’s list, but a new marque has made it into the list and some of them have been rapidly reducing gaps with …
Toyota Yaris 2014 Sedan, Hello Again!
All new Toyota Yaris sedan 2014 was launched at Meydan with impressive digital wizardry that created an illusion of 3-D projections on plain, white blocks erected on varied planes. The illusion was for us in the media. For the entry-level sedan buyer the reality was that the Yaris sedan was …
All-new Nissan Tiida launched – Fans meet long-awaited bliss!
On September 18th, Nissan will create a special “Tiida Moment” with a unique launch event to be held simultaneously in multiple locations across the region. The Tiida fans who scowled when Nissan introduced the Sentra can smile again. The Sentra belonged to a completely different segment that it almost dominates …
Bentley Flying Spur launched in the Middle East
The ballroom in JW Marriott Marquis was a large one. Until the 12th of September. If you would blink twice when you hear the number of millionaires in the UAE, you would have forgotten to blink if you saw the crowd at the launch of the new Bentley Flying Spur. …
Post-vacation. Or vacation posts.
For those who have bothered to wonder about a month-long silence on these pages– after all, wheels have been turning as fast and feverishly as ever in the motoring world… So, what took my tiny blip off the radar for the longest time in the brief history of drivemeonline.com? If …
DriveME NewsTrack early August
Leafy Landmark for Nissan Renault Nissan Leaf has indeed initiated a new chapter in hybrid motoring. Last month, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has sold its 100,000th zero-emission car. They have covered approximately 841 million zero-emission kilometers – enough to circle the earth more than 20,000 times! Renault and Nissan have together …
DriveME decodes the secret of nomenclature in premium cars
So, the sedans of Infiniti will now be called Q and the SUVs will bear the tag QX. Simple enough for those who aren’t the brightest in taxonomy and still believe that Homo sapiens is a gay rights group in Europe. But, are things as simple as they seem or …
