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They may not be the most familiar carmakers in town, and chances are, you may not know them either. But automotive manufacturer ‘Minerva’ was founded in the fall of 1897 by a gentleman named Sylvain De Jong. And, as the story goes, after building more than 50,000 passenger cars in the early 20th century, with names such as Type C, Type D and Type E, the company shut its doors in 1956. However, they’ve decided not to be dug into the graves of history, and after more than 50 years of dust, the company has been revived. Hence, they say that the company has “risen again from the ashes”,

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Yes folks, it is true. The orange car you see here is the final M3 Coupe that will be made, as the production of the two-door, fixed-roof M3 has officially ended.

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Liberty Automobiles has announced the arrival of the 2014 Opel Astra OPC to the Middle East region. The cars will be available in Liberty Showrooms in the UAE.

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We drove the absolutely brand-spanking-new 2014 Lexus IS 350 F-Sport at the launch event in Dubai just two weeks ago. It was a great car, but we couldn’t help but feel slightly underwhelmed by it. Now we got the non-Sport version of the car for a few days, and we were keen to see if it’d be just as underwhelming. Ironically, we had more fun with it!

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As we reported earlier, Infiniti is changing all their model names so that they start with Q for cars and QX for SUVs. Long-running nameplates such as the G37 will disappear to make way for the Q50; and freshly-minted nameplates such as the JX35 will disappear just as quickly as they appeared, becoming QX60 in the process. We are told the GCC will be the first region in the world to receive these renamed model. The first of these will be the FX models, which will henceforth be known as the QX70 as soon as the 2014 model is launched.

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Chinese-based company BYD has unveiled the 2014 New F3 in the Sultanate of Oman through their dealers MHD.

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Mazda made its first impressions of the new 3 last week. And it went pretty well with our readers, as many poured in their satisfaction with the new design. However, it was pretty evident that they would soon follow up with the sedan version of the same.

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There seems to be a tendency among “top” automotive journalists to go with the flow. They will all parrot the same things, like how class-leading the Audi A5 interior is, how easy to drift the Toyota 86 is, or how awesome the Range Rover Evoque drives. If you really knew how the media industry worked, you’d lose faith in the press forever. The latest story that’s going around is how the all-new 2014 Mazda 6 is the best midsize sedan ever made. For once, there is some truth to it, although only up to a point.

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Al Futtaim Motors is planning to sell the 2013 Toyota Land Cruiser Platinum Edition in the UAE, starting this Ramadan. It will be a limited edition model, with only 200 vehicles to be sold.

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Our 2009 Renault Safrane continues to chug along reliably thanks to its Nissan underpinnings, as we predicted back when we bought the car new in 2010. Well, reliably except for the power windows that is.

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