Comments on: 2008 Infiniti EX35 and M35 in Dubai

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:29:42 +0000

Our competitor is admirable for the constant string of ads they get. They’ve been around longer too. A few ads we got were said to be “underperforming.” Also, we lose out because we don’t have a database of our users’ email addresses, since I don’t want to spam you guys.

By: Ace

Ace — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:25:11 +0000

You could add a link to make this a middle-east auto news website…as it is there is no auto news website in the middle-east..I googled a combination of words the closest i got was “car news dubai” and drivearabia featured as the 4th link.
Your closest competition is a confused looking automiddleeast.com. And they’ve got Peugeot on the title bar.
Which other sites dyu have to contend with ?
or am I missing the whole plot ?
Was just lookin at the bottom of this page and your copyright’s run out.

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:15:05 +0000

Actually, we were so “small” back then that few were giving us cars or ads anyway. We had to ride on 7DAYS’s reputation, because our reviews were published in it back in 2005, until we became more known. Some still don’t give us cars, and no one gives us ads since we are not a “news” website. There’s no point being a sellout at any point. Otherwise this site wouldn’t grow at its current pace.

By: Ace

Ace — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:51:23 +0000

Or maybe they didnt pay money or “entertain” mash to give them “good” reviews. Mash, you should’ve been a sellout for the first few reviews get the money and the sponsors..thn do the whole “honest” thing.

Give me your Superchargedjetenginetwincombovariablevalvetimedturboexhaustedcamed Bmbablu roadstgrrr for a review. Im sure I’ll find more than a 100 words.

By: vivek

vivek — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:25:10 +0000

were they soo impressed??

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:15:40 +0000

Hehe, most of the car-company PR people don’t read either. A few that did stopped giving us cars.

By: Saad Bashar

Saad Bashar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:19:38 +0000

Why do people hate reading reviews??

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:26:09 +0000

Ace, there’s more to the testing thing than meets the eye, especially if you are not completely free in the morning. You’d also have to write 1000 words without peeking into any press materials, in 2 or 3 days tops. Others have come and gone, and they were my actual partners in this venture, but even they tired of it, with no money coming in. Although when I do look for people in the far future, it’ll be posted on this website.

Vivek, The FJ is better offroad, but the Xterra is better overall value. To find out why that is, I’ll make your old-fashioned buddy read my reviews on this website.

Saad, I think you are right. Or possibly one of the pre-release Land Cruiser posts. The first Lumina SS post did well, but it got deleted a year ago due to a server outage.

By: Saad Bashar

Saad Bashar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:37:01 +0000

The Corolla preview, I guess. People still post comments on that.

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:26:17 +0000

hey mash …out of curiosity…which entry/news/blog of your’s got the highest ever comments ?

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:24:54 +0000

I was drooling over the EX since the first spy shots came out early last year…and now its 167,000 !!!
Having trouble gettin over it…

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:01:16 +0000

heyy mashh..hw u doin? i’ve a small query..in comparison, which would be a better 4wd when it comes to off-road performance?? The Xterra or FJ Cruiser?? One of my friend is confused between the two vehicles, one of which he is planning to buy..he wants a good off-roader and fairly comfortable highway cruiser!

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:37:56 +0000

I’ll be more than willing give my precious hours to volunteer for testing cars…And I have free parking in my building.

By: thatsit(mohamad)

thatsit(mohamad) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:30:48 +0000

why not…..!!!:mrgreen:

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:02:36 +0000

Well, ignoring the fact that Mazda does not give out cars, I don’t have enough drivers, and I’ll become poor putting parking tickets every hour.

By: Zao

Zao — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:48:36 +0000

Hey Mash! 1 suggestion….why dont u get us a comparison test report of the new Camry, Accord, Altima & Mazda 6….

By: Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:10:24 +0000

Lotfi, those youtube speedometer videos are hard to follow anyway, since the actual movement of the car cannot be seen. The Avalon has never been recorded doing anything close to those numbers.

thatsit, maybe you can form a Nissan/Infiniti club with cb. You can have matching t-shirts and everything.

By: thatsit(mohamad)

thatsit(mohamad) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:48:00 +0000

actually we have three nissan cars, and those cars never gave us as whole family a bad or negative idea about this brand….
inshallah if every thing was fine in the future…we are planning to change all our cars, buttttttttttt we will stick with nissan and infiniti…
we will sell the sunny and buy the QX56…we will sell the the 2005 altima(actually my sis) and she will buy the new FX 35 as they launch it here…my brother will sell the Altima 2008 and will replace it with the new Maxima….and my elder sister is planning to buy the G35 sedan…..OF course this wont happen in 1 day… but inshallah all of those will happen within the next year

By: Assassin

Assassin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:10:46 +0000

thatsit(mohamad), could you tell me which car you will buy after selling sunny? i dont think that you will buy from nissan brand, because you already got one, am i right??

By: Zao

Zao — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:43:37 +0000

almost all the nissan n infiniti cars are now manufactured in US…so i dont think there is an import duty on them other than the local taxes….so obviously those cars would be cheaper in US than those imported to US from japan…..same time we are gettin it after export taxes plus the uae import tax plus the frieght charges….so surely they gonna add up all those things when it reaches the UAE market….