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DriveArabia.com has done financially in the last two years. Really well. That’s because three years ago, Bayt.com took on our ad sales and things just boomed from there. Even after getting banned by three carmakers, and feuds with several others, all for being too honest, we made a huge profit. We have a large cash reserve at the moment that we could spend in several ways. One way would be to squander that money on an Aston Martin Vanquish. The other is to do good. We put some of the money back into the website, starting a mobile version,

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You may have heard of Jon Stewart? He’s that TV guy who offers a comical angle to current news events. You may also have heard about Russia’s obsession with dashboard-mounted video cameras to defend against insurance scammers and corrupt cops. Well, here’s a segment he did on Russian dash-cam videos, back when that meteorite fell over the former Soviet Union earlier this year. It certainly woke us up this morning.

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Nissan has given a significant visual upgrade to the 2014 Micra. The front and rear fascias have been completely redesigned to give it a new look, with some revised interior upgrades as well.

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Hey, looks like we landed ourselves another Bentley. This time, it’s the Continental GTC Speed and apparently we’re the first ones to review it here, probably because all the “big” journalists are out of the country. That doesn’t matter, because the Continental GT is among our most favourite cars.

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Seems Abo Feghali’s much-hyped drift record didn’t last long. Last month, BMW went into the Guinness Book of Records for setting the longest drift. A BMW M5 was used to accomplish the task.

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This one has been a long time coming, even before the Lamborghini that I test-drove recently. It wasn’t bias; it is just that this cheap crossover is actually quite popular regardless of our review, so much that you might end up counting at least as many of this vehicle as any popular Japanese crossovers on the road. And ‘this’ crossover, which we sourced from a close friend, is none other than the 2013 Hyundai Tucson 2.4, aka “Tuck-Sun”, as it is known to most people, including some of the local dealer’s sales staff.

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Every now and then, a new carmaker enters the market. But how often is it, that many of them go unnoticed. One could possibly shun the new car we have here, citing reasons that the logo could be ripped off from Lexus. However, this particular vehicle has no specific relations with Lexus, or even Japan. As a matter of fact, the Luxgen 7 SUV we have here is from Taiwan.

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Police in Saudi Arabia apparently shot at a speeding Chevrolet Caprice to stop the vehicle after its Kuwaiti driver reported its brakes were not working.

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We are currently living in the age of the super-SUV, a crazy new market niche that’s populated by 4x4s that suck offroad, but can chase down sports cars in the straights and, with enough balls, even around corners. And the current poster-child of this unfathomable fad at the moment is none other than the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, the most affordable of this expensive lot that’s otherwise dominated by the Germans. We drove the 2014 iteration of the Jeep SRT8 at the launch of the updated Grand Cherokee range in Dubai recently. Apparently it’ll only go by “Grand Cherokee SRT”

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The 2014 Toyota Corolla is all-new from the ground up, and soon after the debut of the North American version, the European version has a photo debut as well.

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