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Porsche Taycan Does K2K in India. Autocar India drove the K2K in an electric Porsche Taycan. That’s 4000km from Kashmir to Kanniyakumari. They drove through 10 states across mountains, deserts and teaming cities. It didn’t help that some roads had been washed away by the Monsoon rains. The journey took 2 weeks including a 2-day stopover in Mumbai, and a day lost to a landslide!
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An epic classic car rally – I join the “Freedom Drive” – a line-up of dozens of stunning classic cars, including the actual Rolls-Royce that took MA Jinnah (Quaid-E-Azam) and Lord Mountbatten to the signing of the Declaration of Independence of Pakistan on 14th August 1947 – 75 years ago. I ride in it ahead of the parade from Frere House to Nishan-E-Pakistan in Karachi, on 14 August 2022. What an incredible privilege and honour!
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Not a single plain straight panel on it, a bazillion miles over terrain that would defeat a modern SUV, on an odometer that’s probably long since given up clocking along with the rest of the instrumentation; still tackling this evening’s thunderous rain and treacherous flooding like a trooper, this ancient Datsun Sunny taxi, having long over-baked in the fierce South Asian sun, welds upon welds, constituting a hotchpotch of mix and match cannibalised and recrafted parts, keeps plying its unrelenting trade on the thankless streets of Karachi. This isn’t a classic, it’s a beaten-up and hardened old warrior that refuses to die. Salute.
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Exclusive coverage of a special Karachi Classic Car Meet in association with Pakistan Cafe Racers and Antiques Car Museum of Pakistan (Online) at Do Darya – featuring some of the country’s top car enthusiasts and collectors. Featuring is Karim Chapra with an ex-pop star Alamgir MG, Razi Nayyer with an ex-former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jaguar XJ, plus a former British Consul 1956 Austin Vanden Plas Princess owned by Shoaib Qureshi founder of the Museum and Cafe Racers, who organised this event.
Continue reading “Exclusive: Brown Car Guy Karachi Classic Car Meet”I meet with third-generation car industry executive, Murtaza Mandviwalla, Chairman of Mandviwalla Motors and author of a new book, ‘Steering the Pakistani Wheel’ which chronicles the first 100 years of cars and motoring in Pakistan, the extraordinary but failed attempts at a home-grown car industry, the present trends and the future. This fascinating podcast/interview provides an in-depth look at the automotive scene from a business as well as a cultural perspective.
Continue reading “Past, Present & Future of the Car Industry in Pakistan 2022”The recent monsoon rains in Pakistan, left the Omni Karting Circuit under a foot of water for a couple of days, there’s been a herculean effort to clean it up over the last nearly two-weeks by Dr Ovais Naqvi and his team. In this video they explain what happened, how they’ve cleaned the track and some exclusive news on new karts!
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Check out my interview with classic car collector, Shoaib Qureshi, founder of the Online Antique Car Museum, launched earlier this year, while we were out in his little Mazda MX-5 Miata roadster. #BCGPakistan #BrownCarGuyTravels
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Cancel your flight drive Instead! The airports are in chaos, the airlines are cancelling flights. So could you drive to your holiday instead? From here in the UK, that might just be possible. ChooseMyCar.com has put out a press release, claiming that it could be cheaper for a family of four, albeit take longer, to go to their European holiday by car.
Continue reading “Cancelled Flights? Then Drive to your Holiday Instead!”More videos and individual interviews to come – stay tuned! #bcgevents Further videos will follow, stay tuned and book mark this page! Pics below.
Walkaround of the spectacular Savile Row Concours exotic and bespoke supercar and classic car show held last week on the world-famous Savile Row street, known for exclusive and boutique tailoring and luxury products. The cars were all high end luxury, performance and classic cars.
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It’s Jay Leno! That’s not actually true. But it is his Pakistani doppelganger. Not only is the similarity uncanny, but like the famed American TV host, comedian and voracious car collector, Mohsin Ikram too, is hilarious company and a full-on car guy! He is also a walking-talking classic car encyclopaedia, owner, restorer and a founder of the FIVA-approved Vintage and Classic Car Club of Pakistan.
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