We never took the Ford Taurus SHO seriously. The Taurus is a big heavy car, just like the Chrysler 300C. Even a Hemi couldn’t speed up the latter, so we didn’t expect a boosted V6 to do much for the SHO-piece. Boy, were we wrong.
We already drove the 2012 Chrysler 200 at the launch event in Dubai, so we’ve already formed our first impressions on it. But we got it back in for an extended second round to see if it a legitimate midsize contender.
We were aware already that Dubai Police was trying out new patrol cars from various manufacturers, but it looks like they’re getting serious about it. They’ve released a photo, showing the 2012 Dodge Charger in a variation of the Dubai Police livery. In the background, we can spot a BMW 5-Series, a Toyota Prado and a Ford Explorer. Further photos show a Ford Taurus and a Dodge Durango in police markings as well.
Ducati opened their latest showroom in the UAE, Goodyear donated items to blue-collar workers for the summer, and Gillette is running a car design contest in the GCC.
Hennessey has taken Cadillac’s CTS-V coupe, done away with the supercharged 6.2-litre V8 in favour of a 7-litre engine block and force-fed it by a pair of turbos for some extra oomph. They call it the 2013 Hennessey VR1200 Twin Turbo Coupe.
Jeep showcased the Gladiator concept at the North American International Auto Show back in 2005. And although it was received well by the crowds, it didn’t make to the production lines due to Chrysler’s ongoing financial ordeal at that point in time.
Street & Racing Technology, commonly known as SRT, the tuning arm within the Chrysler Group, has revealed the all-new 2013 limited-edition SRT Viper GTS Launch Edition.
Much noise was made about Farba Guard possibly giving preferential treatment to Mashfique’s trusty 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee when it went in for a detailing job last year and that the same quality was not provided to other customers. To silence all that, and just because we had the opportunity to avail the discounted DriveArabia price, we grabbed a friends’ 2007 Ford Focus for some pampering.
Ford Motor Company, Shelby American and Ford Racing have paid their tributes to the late Carroll Shelby, a legendary racer and automotive designer who is behind several of world’s iconic machines including the Shelby Cobra 427, and the Mustang-based Shelby GT350 and Shelby GT500, in the form of a jointly-developed unique Mustang, called the 2013 Shelby GT500 Cobra.
If anyone remembers the image that once made rounds on the internet, where a Hummer H2 was shown parked beside an insanely huge armoured vehicle called the Knight XV, and made to look like a midget, then behold; what you see above is the unarmoured sibling of the Knight XV, called the EVADE.