With rising costs of living, it is getting harder to save money nowadays. While petrol is relatively cheap in our region compared to the rest of the world, your daily drive to the office also happens to be one of the best ways you can save a bit of cash. Here are some tips on how to save petrol with some simple driving techniques.
The feeling of taking corners with confidence, completely comfortable with your car’s abilities, is something that most three-row crossover owners have never experienced, unless they’re behind the wheel of some expensive European vehicle. Well, there’s always been one midsize crossover that offers all that and more — the Mazda CX-9. We take a look at how it’s better than its direct rivals.
Do you remember the joy you got when you acquired your first car? Assuming you’re not a trust-fund kid, maybe you were handed down the old family wagon, or you had to share your sister’s pink convertible. Or maybe you had to work hard, whether to cough up the down-payment on an affordable little hatchback or to pay up front for a really old sedan. Here’s what the editors of DriveArabia.com did.
It’s hard to believe that the iconic Michelin Man, among the most well-known brand logos in the world, has actually been around for 120 years! The always-happy pudgy guy has been the lifetime brand ambassador for tyre-maker Michelin, but how exactly did he come about? Well, it was quite simple really.
When you get your driving licence, you are capable of piloting a car, but what they don’t teach you is how to capably pilot a car in the real world, where there isn’t a guy in the passenger seat ready with his foot on a secondary brake-pedal. All drivers eventually learn to adapt to their surroundings on different roads and conditions, but many somehow fail to figure out the obvious or are intentionally oblivious. Knowing defensive-driving techniques can prevent you from becoming the latter, and to avoid those drivers without incident as well.
Cars have become a whole lot “smarter” these days. There’s been a whole host of technological developments that has made driving easier as well as safer than ever before. But until recently, such tech was only found in expensive luxury cars. But Ford was one of the first mainstream brands to start offering electronic driving aids and safety features in affordable cars such as the Ford Fusion.
When the Ford SYNC multimedia first debuted over six years ago, it was a huge step forward for in-car tech in general, even if it did have its bugs. We weren’t too keen on using it either, but Ford has improved on it over the years. SYNC is now part of an all-encompassing system called MyFord Touch, and we’re going to see if it’s still at the forefront of in-car infotainment, as we pitch the all-new 2014 Ford Fusion against rivals such as the Toyota Camry, the Hyundai Sonata, the Honda Accord and the Mazda 6.
When we drove the 2014 Ford Fusion last year, it was a prototype being used for hot-weather testing. It had a different engine, and it was roughly put together, but we were ready to put it on our recommended list at once whenever it’d hit showrooms in the future. Fast-forward to the summer of 2014, and the Fusion is finally on sale here. So when we had to test some of the Ford Fusion’s best virtues against rivals from the top two biggest brands in the region, we had no qualms about giving it a go, especially when it came to handling.