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I catch up with my old Dubai buddy, PR professional, Tom Conway-Gordon in the Ultimate Podcast Machine – which of course is my 1989 BMW 325i E30. It’s black, and Tom runs a car fan Instagram Page – AnyColourSoLongAsItsBlack So while he was keen to see and snap the E30, I took him for a drive and a chat!
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”Attended ‘Supercar Day’ at the amazing 2022 London Concours yesterday held as usual at the Honourable Artillery Company near Old Street in Central London. The Drivers Union, Supercar Owner’s Club, was there in full attendance. Plus some extraordinary new and classic cars.
Continue reading “Supercars and Classics London Concours 2022”#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”Which country has the most luxury cars relative to population?
Continue reading “Which Country has the Most Luxury Cars per Person?!”
Read this story now on The National – see my video of the track below
Continue reading “Karachi karting circuit inspired by the UAE opens after decade of delays”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’ – 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”‘Brown Car Guy & Buddies’ – Jorge Ferrari is one of the leading photographers in the UAE, but he’s been based in the region as far back at 1986 in Kuwait, where he found himself caught up in the invasion by Iraq. Ever the professional, his pictures were the first seen by the world from inside occupied Kuwait as he was shooting for Reuters.
Continue reading “Reuters PhotoJourno Jorge Ferrari: Caught escaping Kuwait & how Maradona saved him!”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?
Continue reading “Mitch Perera: Dubai Custom Car Legend talks…. EVs?!!”
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