The need to leave behind echoes of one’s own existence
Recent events got me thinking… got me down… got me a little gloomy… and naturally led to thoughts of death and legacy.
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Wadi Al Helo, Sharjah-Kalba Road, UAE
Honda Civic Type-R FN2 – #ThrowBackThursday April 2010
#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!
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Latest in the BCG & Buddies – I catch up with someone who’s been following me since Car ME days
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.
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BCG & Buddies video: JDM & muscle cars to hanging with stars at MEFCC
‘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!
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Bob Lutz, Murray Walker, Horacio Pagani & the first British-Asian Car Journalist
‘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.
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#ThrowBackThursday to my review of the Ferrari 488 Spider from 2016
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.
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ThrowBackThursday to my review of the Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport back in 2016
Read what I wrote in the original review below – originally posted on Motoring Middle East:
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‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – Abdulla Jaafari has gone from covering illegal street racing / drifting on the strees of Amman, Jordan, to shooting the Pininfarina Battista in Dubai. Plus dune drag with the Mercedes AMG G-Class 4×4 Squared – a video that’s got him nearly 8 million views on YouTube, and of course drifting… lots and lots of drifting. In fact I first met him at a drift event at Umm Al Quwain, where he was coverinng Jordan’s drift king, Ahmad Daham. https://www.instagram.com/abdullajaafari
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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From deck hand to car journalist to Rolls-Royce PR to a career with GM – but not a Lebanese rally driver, definitely NOT a Lebanese rally driver – meet Ronald Balit!
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