Gwadar Rally 2021, Pakistan
The most dramatic finish to a rally stage ever?! 😲🤦🏽♂️ And kudos for still getting it through the gate 🤣
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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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To mark Pakistan’s 73rd Independence Day – I pick the nation’s most important cars
In honour of Pakistan’s 73rd Independence day, I thought I’d pick the 10 most important cars for Pakistan’s motorists and car enthusiasts – to do this I enlisted the help of a few friends – so shout-out and thanks to Mohsin Ikram, Muhammad Arsalan Bela, Shahzad Majid, Shamy Khuhro, Reza Adil, Ali Adil, Farrukh Ahmed, Shaheer Hakki, and Danish Ali – yep the famous YouTube comedian, he’s a car guy too!
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Latest Brown Car Guy Update 23042020 #BCGDaily – more BrownCarGuy & Buddies!
I chat with founder of Automotive Affairs https://www.youtube.com/automotiveaffairs and freelance motoring journalist, Nauman Farooq.
Continue reading “Stuck with a Free Car in Lockdown”Pakistan’s Jay Leno and the $1.9m Ferrari that got away!
Latest Brown Car Guy Update 11042020 #BCGDaily
In a new series semi-formally titled ‘Brown Car Guy and Buddies’ I try to catch up with people online during this virtually global lockdown and talk cars and stuff.
Continue reading “Pakistan’s Jay Leno and the $1.9m Ferrari that got away!”Indian & Pakistani Dramas – why are the cars blanked out?
Latest Brown Car Guy Update 23022020 #BCGDaily
Why are car badges and names digitally hidden in Indian and Pakistani dramas and TV serials? Having had a short break from BCG Daily due to all the London Classic Car Show content, and whilst out shooting the review of the Isuzu D-Max XTR, my thoughts turned to something that bothered me last night at my mother’s place as she was watching Asian drama serials on TV. There’s a new trend of them blanking out the car manufacturer names and badges from the cars featured in the drama shows. Why?!
2020 – Enjoy a year of diversity, not divisiveness
Let’s come together and not fall apart, as we face a hopeful new decade
When I was growing up in Islington in the 1970s, my brown skin steadily thickening in response to regular racist abuse of some kind or another, I was always inwardly overly ecstatic whenever I had the rather rare opportunity to interact with another brown person (who was not a relative or family friend). ‘Brother from another mother!’ my inner voice would cry out in barely restrained rejoice.
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2012 Kuwait Concours D’Elegance
Originally published 15 February 2012 on Motoring Middle East
In 2012 Motoring Middle East flew over to Kuwait for a few days to cover the extraordinary Kuwait Concours D’Elegance. Check out our amazing coverage republished here.
Flashback – London Motor Show 1995
Found my old coverage of the 1995 London Motor Show
Found this in my old files – it was a proofing copy of coverage I did of the 1995 London Motor Show for a fledgling but short-lived Pakistani car magazine – ‘Motoring’ by Tausif Agha published in Karachi.
