European Car News

German tuning company Brabus has released details of their treatment of the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class. It certainly does not disappoint as far as engine output numbers are concerned.

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BMW has officially lifted the ‘concept’ tag that had been hovering around the much anticipated i3. And yes, the car did make a media appearance sometime ago, but it did wear a light exterior and interior camouflage. Anyways, BMW took off all the unwanted distractions and made the big announcement this week.

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Overnight camping can be fun. And if you’re the type of person who loves spontaneous road trips and camping, then you are in for a treat, as Mini has come up with what you’re looking for — the Clubvan Camper, Cowley caravan or Countryman ALL4 Camp.

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We have to say that this was expected following BMW stopping production of the M3 coupe. BMW revealed this week the 4-Series Coupe sprinkled with a dash of ‘M Performance’ parts, subsequently giving us an initial taste of the upcoming M4.

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Classic gems are always pricey. But a classic Mercedes-Benz is a different game altogether. Still, couple the Mercedes-Benz value to Formula One-winning heritage and a legendary driver, you’ll end up with a car that’s well worth US$ 29.65 million, or about Dhs 110,000,000.

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Novitec has finished its tuning program for the already crazy Lamborghini Aventador. The result? The Torado. For what we can say, it looks like it wants to take the pedestrian sinisterness of the Aventador into an otherworldly rage, with those carbon-fibre vents, spoilers and protrusions lining the body from front to back.

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Back in the early 1990s, you could get a car key duplicated at any regular key-cutting shop for Dhs 10 and be happy in the knowledge that you’ll always have an unlimited supply of cheap keys for your car. Then the late 90s brought with it the new-fangled transponder-chip anti-theft technologies that could not be duplicated, and the only place to get copies was from the dealer, after a month-long wait to get it shipped from the factory and after going into debt to pay for it. Then we recently heard that half the key-cutting shops in Dubai can now duplicate any key in half an hour.

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We drove the redesigned VW Golf recently and found it to be a pretty good car. Of course, around here, nobody cares about the regular Golf. With a huge chunk of Golf sales, up to 50% by some sources, in our region accounted for by just the pricier GTI, it’s obvious from the start that the latest GTI was a hotly-anticipated car this summer.

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We wanted to fill our personal fleet up with cool cars. That means our trusty Renault Safrane will eventually move on to a good home by the end of the summer. The replacement had to cleanly fall between our Honda S2000 and our Range Rover in terms of size, drive and cargo-carrying practicality. We thought of all sorts of cars, including Minis, Chargers, Alfas, Evoques, 3-Series, GTIs and what not. Then I woke up last week and had a sudden urge to buy a Jaguar XK. So I did.

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They may not be the most familiar carmakers in town, and chances are, you may not know them either. But automotive manufacturer ‘Minerva’ was founded in the fall of 1897 by a gentleman named Sylvain De Jong. And, as the story goes, after building more than 50,000 passenger cars in the early 20th century, with names such as Type C, Type D and Type E, the company shut its doors in 1956. However, they’ve decided not to be dug into the graves of history, and after more than 50 years of dust, the company has been revived. Hence, they say that the company has “risen again from the ashes”,

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