Ford Road Trip – Tracking Lawrence Across Arabia

(plus we raid a train & take Aqaba & Petra!) #FBF

#FlashBackFriday to Vlog and review of Ford vehicles during a road trip across Jordan in 2016 for Motoring Middle East. Tracing Lawrence of Arabia’s route, we saw the Dead Sea, Wadi Rum, raided a train, ate food cooked in the ground, stormed Aqaba and finally got to the wonders of Petra!

What an absolutely epic trip that was! This is a must-watch. Read the full text of the original feature below:

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Post Opulence Rolls-Royce & Post-Pandemic VW + how Mr Fusion & Atomic batteries could save the world!

28072020 #BCGBulletin – an open letter from the Boss of Rolls-Royce, what Volkswagen thinks the future of transport will look like, plus Star Trek, Back to the Future and Batman!

  • All-new Rolls-Royce Ghost is on the way – and the CEO has written an open letter but ‘post-opulence’.
  • Volkswagen gives its insights into what a post-COVID-19 world of transport might look like.
  • A new Institute in the UK will dream up new innovations in motoring and engineering.
  • Lorries that think they’re trams – is that a good idea?

Mitch Perera: Dubai Custom Car Legend talks…. EVs?!!

In the latest episode of BrownCarGuy & Buddies I talk to the UAE’s leading custom car guy

Muscle Car Mitch Perera, is known for V8 muscle cars, feasome off-road trucks, building cool custom cars, being a SEMA veteran and his love of the great outdoors. But after all these decades in the UAE, has the sun finally got to him as he talks Electric Vehicles?! Plus is he the only person on the planet that doesn’t like the new Ford Bronco?

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Review: Peugeot 508 GT 225 EAT 8

We haven’t had a saloon this sexy since the 406 from the mid-90s

Remember the Peugeot 405 from the late 1980s? That was a sharp looking car with clean bold lines and a meaty stance. It was followed up by the 406 in the mid-90s, which took the same silhouette but stretched it out and made it sexier still – plus there was a two-door coupe version. Omigod! Are you kidding me? Did Ferrari misplace its blueprints? That was one seductive Pug, slinky and seductive. Sadly Peugeot peaked with that car, and we’ll now jump over the 407 and even the first generation of the French car makers new player in the segment, the 508.

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Ford Kuga PHEV Review

Family-friendly SUV that looks cool and merely sniffs at fuel

It’s about as fresh and woke as an SUV can get. Swoopy styling, Focus underpinnings, and clever future tech that’ll get you a claimed 200mpg – this writer bears witness to nearly 100mpg in the real world – at least for a while. The Kuga has come a long way, cue wavy lines to inset a quick history lesson…

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