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Back in the day, I loved this thing. As a sci-fi fan, the Porsche 928’s sleek, rounded, pod-like aesthetic appealed to me. It’s astonishing and hard to believe, frankly, that the Stuttgart sports car company released this futuristic V8-powered 2+2 GT way back in 1977 – 47 years ago! Perhaps less surprisingly, it had an incredibly long production run of 18 years right up to 1995, and even today, it looks entirely contemporary and in no way dated at all!
Automotive News Highlights – Classic Icon Revived! Did you know the Maruti 800 in India is called the Suzuki Alto everywhere else? Discover the iconic journey of Suzuki from the 1955 Suzullight to their massive 80 million sales milestone. UK Car Sales Report! Dive into the latest stats with a 21% sales surge in September. But what does the number truly signify, especially for electric vehicles? Simon Cowell’s Electric Passion! From a luxury car collector to embracing the electric revolution with the Mini eMastered by David Brown Automotive. Find out what Simon really thinks about driving electric. McLaren’s Dubai Extravaganza! The world’s largest McLaren dealership just opened its doors in Dubai.
Great chat with Dubai’s biggest Supercar Vlogger, Ali Al Hamoudi, who was back in London yesterday with Nissan for the Formula E race. I’ve known him since he first started out and now he’s got a fantastic 8 million followers across his multiple platforms. Some of the links are given below. One of the first Emirati’s to become serious content creator in the automotive sector, he’s very passionate about what he does as well and just an all-round great guy. @UAESuperSport
Recent events got me thinking… got me down… got me a little gloomy… and naturally led to thoughts of death and legacy.
Continue reading “Death and Legacy”#ThrowBackThursday to a 2010 Honda Civic Type-R FN2 being driven on and around the E102 Sharjah Kalba road in the Wadi Al Helo area of the United Arab Emirates about an hour out of Dubai. This video is from April 2010. Sooooo many revs!
Continue reading “Wadi Al Helo, Sharjah-Kalba Road, UAE”Emirati Mohamed Ali Humaid has been following my work since 2006 and I first met him when he won a model Ford GT in a Car Middle East magazine competition.
Continue reading “Mohamed Ali Humaid – UAE Car Culture, from V8 to EV”‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – Arafaat Ali Khan is a happy chappy – always has been as you’ll see from the advert he appeared in when he was less than three years old – aww… adorable! Still is, let’s be honest!
Continue reading “Arafaat Ali Khan”‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – Catching up with Chandan Basu Mallik in Calcutta, India – I knew him in Dubai where he headed up and/or wrote for several major automotive publications during his near two decades in the Middle East, including Autocar, F1 and Wheels. As a fellow British-Asian, he beat me to his first car review by a couple of years.
Continue reading “Chandan Basu Mallik”This Toupee-tearing Blue Streak has Turbos – but is it a blowhard or the best Fezza yet? See the full review I wrote at the time below.
Continue reading “Ferrari 488 Spider – #TBT Review”Read what I wrote in the original review below – originally posted on Motoring Middle East:
Continue reading “Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport – #TBT Review”