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A few days ago, Motoring Middle East, which is an automotive news media channel across YouTube and social media platforms, but based in Dubai, celebrated its 9th birthday. Why is that significant? Because in 2011, along with Imthishan Giado, I co-founded ‘MME’, as we came to call it.
Continue reading “From LJK Setright to BrownCarGuy”‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – Jorge Ferrari is one of the leading photographers in the UAE, but he’s been based in the region as far back at 1986 in Kuwait, where he found himself caught up in the invasion by Iraq. Ever the professional, his pictures were the first seen by the world from inside occupied Kuwait as he was shooting for Reuters.
Continue reading “Reuters PhotoJourno Jorge Ferrari: Caught escaping Kuwait & how Maradona saved him!”
11062020 ‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – In this episode I speak to John Gardiner who has been at Ford Motor Company for 30 years and currently has two jobs – Executive Director, Communications & Public Affairs, Ford of Britain & Ireland, and Corporate Communications, Ford of Europe.
Continue reading “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”
When I moved to Dubai in 2006 as editor of Car Middle East, Damien Reid was editor of Autocar Middle East, but from fierce professional rivarly emerged a fast personal friendship. It’s great to catch up with one of the most respected and prolific car journalists in the Middle East, to hear some great behind-the-scenes stories of what really went on with PR, car manufacturers and magazine publishing in Dubai, and get his considered take on the state of motor racing during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Continue reading “Meet My Arch Rival!!”You hear that? Shutters opening up, window panes being squeaky cleaned, factories restarting and engines firing up. Yep – the car industry is back in business.
Continue reading “Car Industry – Back in Business!”In this video I try to work out how many lives could be saved by the reduction in car use around the world due to the lockdown. It’s pretty staggering, but potentially there are lot more lives that will be saved due to another side-effect of the lockdown. Could they actually outweigh the tragic loss of lives the pandemic is causing? It might need better mathmaticians / statisticians / research analysts than me to figure it out though.
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It’s very important to stay at home right now to beat this virus. But as car people what are we to do? Well actually there’s plenty you could be doing – and here are some solid tips.
Latest updated on how the car industry is faring during the shut-downs and lock downs brought on by COVID-19 Coronavirus and how it’s starting its fight back against the disease – plus how some have even tweaked their logos and a fantastic initiative from MG Motor UK.
Previous videos related to the impact of Coronavirus on the car industry below.
Continue reading “Car Industry’s Fight for Survival in War against COVID-19”
Since were all stuck at home now I thought it would be fun to run a live car quiz on Instagram Live – follow Instagram.com/ShahzadSheikh – here’s the full video.
How many of these questions did you know the answer to?
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