Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury

Michelin Arabia invited us for a trip to Malaysia a couple of months ago, for the 2015 edition of the Michelin Pilot Sport Experience, to drive all sorts of race-cars at the F1 circuit in Sepang. That’s great as a media trip, but then they also gave us two extra invites so that we could run a contest and pick 2 of our readers to go along with us. Let’s just say that our winners, Sreeprasad Jayaprasad from the UAE and Usama Raheel Khan from Saudi Arabia, had the time of their lives.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently unveiled his company’s long-awaited all-electric Model X crossover SUV. first announced in 2012, the expensive new model isn’t particularly attractive, but it is packed with revolutionary features for a production car.

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BMW has just revealed the new M4 GTS, a model that they call the “most agile, radical and powerful M4 ever,” which is amusing because the M4 nameplate has only been around for less than 2 years now. Maybe they meant the M3 as well.

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Nissan’s well-known performance brand, Nismo, made its Middle East debut at a launch event in Dubai. It is the first time that an entire line of Nismo models are offered in the UAE and other GCC countries.

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The Cadillac CTS-V has been around for about a decade, but GM never quite figured out whether it was a compact or a midsize, and by their own chief engineer Tony Roma’s admission, couldn’t hack it as a rival to either the BMW M3 or the BMW M5, given its compromises to straddle the line. But things are much more focused this time around, with the latest CTS-V growing into a proper midsizer, leaving the compact super-sedan market to the ATS-V, which comes as a coupe too. We drove the company’s little new bruisers at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi this week.

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The Nissan Maxima made a name for itself in the 1980s and 1990s with a “Four-Door Sports Car” tagline that somehow worked back in the day, for a not-too-heavy V6-powered front-wheel-drive sedan. Of course, the game changed over the years as the Maxima stagnated for several years and then simply became a higher-trim version of the Altima, while shamelessly still coming with “4DSC” badges as standard. But the new one for 2016 already captured a lot of attention when it first popped up in photos several months ago. Is it finally more Maxima and less Maximbady?

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Volkswagen has officially unveiled the facelifted 2016 Passat in the United States. This is the variant we get in the GCC, a slightly larger sedan than the excellent European one.

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Ford has revealed the next-generation 2017 versions of the F-Series Super Duty models, which include the F-250, F-350 and F-450. While details are still scarce, one thing for sure is that they now use aluminium body panels justl like the new F-150.

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Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is stepping down amid charges that the company manipulated its diesel-engined cars to meet emissions regulations around the world, in an official announcement yesterday.

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