#BrownCarGuy – News, Views & Reviews!
Continuing the series – ‘BrownCarGuy & Buddies’ in this episode I chat with Fraser Martin – a Scotsman who’s lived in the Gulf for over four decades and has been involved in just about every aspect of automotive and motoring in the Middle East, from instructing, to testing, to car development and motoring journalism.
Continue reading “I drove Ferrari F40 for Jeremy Clarkson’s Motorworld & hated it!”Check out this very special video from my former colleagues at Motoring Middle East – https://www.youtube.com/MotoringMiddleEast featuring Imthishan Giado.
Continue reading “60 Years of Honda in F1 – tribute from Dubai by Motoring Middle East”Catching up with my dear friend and founding partner on Motoring Middle East (which he still runs) we extensively cover the Cannonball Run and the latest effort to beat the coast-to-coast record; explain why trucks are cool, as is the Civic Type R, but supercars are not; reveal our least and most favourite BMW SUVs; where in the world to bag a bargain 760bhp Shelby GT 500 Ford Mustang; and I inadvertantly leave instructions for my own funeral arrangements in particular with regards to donuts – of both kind!
Continue reading “Cannonball Run Record Broken & Bargain Shelbys in Lockdown Dubai”My features ‘7 Best Suzukis Ever made’ was recently posted on DriveTribe – link below – here are my greatest memories of Suzukis since I started out in motoring journalist. Includes Alto, Swift, Vitara and Jimny.
Check out my latest feature on DriveTribe featuring a Dozen Dazzling Datsuns!
Continue reading “ThrowBackThursday – review C110 Skyline GT-R replica”
I previously reported on BritishAsiaNews.com that Dubai-built Jannarelly sports cars were going on sale in the UK back in November. Now the boutique sports car company has introduced a special edition celebrating the launch of the car in the UK market.
My coverage from the recent Camp Jeep 2019 event in Italy is in the latest issue of Wheels Magazine UAE, and it made the cover! See it here, plus video.
Back in 2012 the UAE Land Rover owner’s club held a parade through Dubai on Friday. Watch the entire parade from my mate Arif Al Yedaiwi’s lead car, his original Series 1, followed by 60 other Land Rovers and with a police escort. I filmed this on a GoPro with time lapse. The actual drive was an hour long, but here compressed to four minutes! Still love how it turned out.
#FlashBackFriday to over a decade ago when as Editor of the Middle East edition of Car Magazine, I ran our first ever car awards. Unrelentingly hard work, a weighty responsibility, but extraordinarily satisfying and fun. We did several of these, and I even hosted and presented the last edition which was immensely enjoyable. I may be involved in some form of car industry awards again very soon – can’t say any more than that at the moment – but stay tuned. Do make sure you subscribe to this blog!
