Video Of The Week

Some daft people say American action movies are unrealistic. Obviously they’ve never lived in America long enough. Check out this news footage of a car chase in Texas. Well, less car and more truck. There are all the obligatory speeding-police-cars scenes, a cop-shooting-while-hanging-out-of-car-window scene, a cop-shooting-while-running scene, many explosions-with-stuff-falling-all-over-the-road scenes and even the school-bus-in-danger scene. Who says movies are fake?

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American rally driver Ken Block is back with yet another installment of his flamboyant Gymkhana series. This time, he drives his 2011 Ford Fiesta rally car through Hollywood studio lots. Try to identify all the movie references in the opening credits, and wait for the surprise ending.

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The 2011 Canadian F1 Grand Prix was held a few days ago. While Formula One does not interest us, certain on-track antics make for fun viewing. In what looks like amateur hour, one of the race marshals stepped out onto the track to help clear the debris from a previous incident, all while cars are still racing. And then he slipped and fell. Twice.

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Watch what happens when an idiot parks their car, blocking the way for a bunch of other cars. Some of you living in the UAE can identify with this. Looks like it happens in Europe too. The ending is hilarious.

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Al-Futtaim Motors, the UAE distributor for Lexus, launched the GCC’s first compact premium hybrid, the Lexus CT 200h, at The Walk, Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai on March 3. At this unique public event, the new Lexus was revealed on a stage display, using the latest in light and 3D technology which “reflects Lexus’ own cutting edge approach to advanced automotive engineering.”

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As news still trickles in about the earthquake in Tokyo that measured a massive 8.9 on the Richter scale, Japan’s largest earthquake ever has also created a tsunami that flooded cities, washed away cars and caused surrounding countries as far as New Zealand, Hawaii and the Philipines to issue alerts.

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By now, you’d know that Ferrari’s marketing army will do just about anything to make you think their cars are invincible. We were not going to bother with this Ferrari FF video, but then we started watching it. The promo is absolutely stunning, with an amazing soundtrack consisting of engine sounds and epic music, with footage of the Ferrari Four doing things like offroading in the snow, driving between dunes and even making an appearance at the Ferrari World theme park in Abu Dhabi! Even if you hate this car, watch it, and if you don’t get goose-bumps, there’s a VW Golf Cabrio waiting for you.

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Here is our exclusive video of the 2011 Volvo S60 in a demonstration of its City Safety features, at the launch event in Dubai a few months ago. The camerawork is by our photographer Faisal Khatib, with narration and driving by Volvo representatives.

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Here’s something to inflame the bearded folks. A whopping 19 teenage girls stuffed into a two-seater Smart ForTwo to set a new world record. For the Guiness Book of World Records. In Pakistan. Who would’ve thought that the country to beat the previous record of 18 by Australia would be Pakistan? And girls, no less.

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It’s the season of remakes, and the legendary video game Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit has been relaunched with shiny new graphics and gameplay. To promote the game, the game’s makers seem to be going all out, releasing this promo video of a real life car chase between a Pagani Zonda and a Lamborghini Murcielago police car. If only games looks that good.

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