Vivek Menon

Italian automaker Fiat, has revealed an all-electric version of the Fiat 500, dubbed the Fiat 500e, ahead of its debut at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Saab, an iconic Swedish automobile manufacturer, which dwindled over time into the wrath of bankruptcy, may be in for a possible resurrection, as National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), a Chinese-Japanese consortium who currently owns SAAB, has announced its intentions to introduce an electric version of the Saab 9-3 Convertible.

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The Big Boys Toys exhibition, a premier luxury lifestyle event for the big boys out there with big pockets and a craving for the big toys which only big money can buy, is going to have its fourth iteration held at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, from January 31, 2013 through February 2, 2013. For this year, the show is destined to become the debut arena for a few names unheard of, in the region, such as Soleil Motors, ZNUG Design and Ostoure Bikes.

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Some detailed computer-generated images of what seems to be the all-new Mazda 3 have cropped up on the internet, well ahead of its debut sometime in 2013.

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So if you thought that the crazy automobile recall saga had ended, you were wrong. Since our last post on the recalls earlier this year, there were an insane amount of recalls that followed, from almost every car manufacturer in the world you can ever think of, almost all of them being issued following instructions from the U.S.-based NHTSA agency. And we could not bother to post each recall issue as a separate story, the task being as equally tedious as the reader-response to these. Here are all the recalls that could potentially be relevant to our region since April 2012.

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The latest model of the Kia Carens, a compact MPV offering from Kia, has been revealed at the Paris Auto Show.

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Carlsson Autotechnik, a German car tuning manufacturer specializing in Mercedes-Benz cars, has just introduced their Mercedes-Benz ML-based SUV, calling it the Carlsson CML35.

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So it is time for another update on our Mitsubishi Pajero. Having covered over 15,000 kms since the last post, and over 37,000 km since buying it almost a year ago, we still do not have anything negative to write about it. Besides some off-road-abuse-inflicted damages, the Pajero runs absolutely fine.

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British automaker Jaguar has been making it to the news quite regularly these days, with rejuvenated models replacing the existing line-up, and this time it is their flagship XJ model and the XF model receiving the updates for 2013.

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Ever fancied a life where you have so much of wealth to spare that you want everything around you, including your car, to be unique enough to boast your individuality? If you do have that kind of money, and if that unique car which you fancy happens to be something like a McLaren, then fancy no more – McLaren Special Operations, the division of McLaren Automotive responsible for bespoke projects, can realise your dreams, just as they did for an anonymous client of theirs, by building an exclusive model perfectly designed to match the client’s desires, and calling it the X-1 concept.

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