Stealing the show from the other SUV manufacturers this year is Range Rover, as they showed off their new long-wheelbase version for the first time at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and not at the earlier Dubai Motor Show as had been rumoured earlier.
We missed out on covering this, well, “thing” during the Dubai Motor Show, but figured we should at least give it some column inches, if only because it is intended to grab headlines. This here is the Devel Sixteen, with a “Made in Dubai” tag and a claim of 5000 horses!
Firstly, lets point out that Toyota isn’t doing all that bad in the Japanese taxi industry. However, their biggest rival at this point is Nissan, and in an attempt to overshadow the competition, Toyota is showcasing the new JPN Taxi Concept. The car was shown at the Tokyo Motor Show, and comes off as a riff on the legendary London Taxi.
It is interesting that Honda has chosen India to launch the all-new version of the subcompact Honda City, which pretty much sums up their target market. The new model literally debuted just hours ago at a media event in New Delhi.
The Tokyo Motor Show is the top automotive motorshow in Asia, and the 2013 edition kicked off on November 20 with an array of international debuts. Alongside parallel debuts with the L.A. Auto Show for the Jaguar F-Type Coupe, the Porsche Macan, the Mini Cooper and the Nissan GT-R Nismo, Tokyo also played host to numerous concepts, such as the Nissan BladeGlider, the Subaru Viziv, the Mitsubishi XR-PHEV, the Ken Okuyama Design Kode9, the Daihatsu Kopen, the Honda S660 and the Nissan IDx Freeflow. Photos by Newspress.
The Ford Edge neatly fits in between the Explorer and the Escape in the GCC market. And the edgy styling helped it become one of Ford’s best-sellers here. Ford is previewing the new Edge at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. The catch? It’s still in its “concept” phase.
An Audi R8 reportedly caught fire on Friday afternoon in Fujairah while parked at a petrol station.
We’ve not heard much about Daihatsu in the recent past. There’s the Sirion, there’s the Terios and that’s pretty much it. However, things are going to be spiced up a bit, as they are all set to make a sporting comeback with the new Kopen, shown at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show this week.
The Los Angeles Auto Show is one of the smaller global motorshows, but still one of the important ones. At the 2013 edition of the show, which kicked off on the 20th of November, there are several world debuts, such as the Jaguar F-Type Coupe, the Porsche Macan, the Range Rover LWB, the Chevrolet Colorado and the Subaru WRX. Concepts include the Ford Edge, the Mercedes-Benz Vision Gran Turismo, the Nissan Sentra Nismo and the Youabian Puma. Photos by Newspress.
Sony Middle East has just launched the new Sony Action Cam HDR-AS30V in the UAE. It will be going against the mighty GoPro Hero3 Black Edition, the popular choice for consumers to film and record extreme action videos. We were invited to try out the new Sony Action Cam at the Dubai Kartdrome.