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The first photos of the 2011 Chrysler 300C has hit the web, and it looks to be a simplistic facelift of the existing model, although mechanical and interior changes are more substantial.

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قامت شركة ماكلارين أوتوموتيف اليوم بالكشف عن باكورة سيارتها، إم بي4-12سي (MP4-12C) لأول مرة في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. ولقد عُرِضت هذه السيارة المنتظَرة خلال حفل خاص أقامته شركة تصنيع السيارات البريطانية لكبار الشخصيات والإعلاميين في فندق أرماني بدبي.

ويشكّل طراز ماكلارين إم بي4-12سي المبتكَر بداية عصر جديد ضمن الفئة الجوهرية للسيارات الرياضية. فهذا الطراز المكوّن من مقعدين وبمحرّك وسطي، يقوم على هيكل شاسيه أحادي من ألياف الكربون (Carbon MonoCell). وهذه المرة الأولى التي ترتكز فيها سيارة ضمن هذه الفئة على حلول هندسية قوية وخفيفة الوزن مستوحاة مباشرة من عالم رياضات السيارات. كما أنها المرة الأولى التي تُصنّع فيها أي سيارة بهيكل من قطعة واحدة مكوّن من ألياف الكربون.

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McLaren Automotive unveiled the MP4-12C in Bahrain and the UAE this month. After the McLaren F1 and the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR, this is only the first product to come out the company that has associations with Formula 1.

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After revealing the so-called “concept” version of the near-production 2012 6-Series coupe, BMW has gone ahead and released full details on the actual 2012 650i Convertible, which is set to go on sale in the first half of 2011.

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No one cares about Opel in the UAE, or even knows whether their cars are still on sale or not. It would seem Opel really is alive and well, and had been offering the Opel Antara small crossover for the past couple of years in their line-up. The model has received a facelift for 2011.

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Say what you want about the Americans, but they are a serious bunch when it comes to safety. The U.S. government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — NHTSA — is the one that mandates airbags and tyre-pressure monitors in all new cars, subdued automakers into making their roof strength higher while inadvertently making outward visibility worse due to thicker pillars, and is set to force rear-view cameras on all new cars by 2014 thereby making car prices higher. And if that weren’t enough, there are not one, but two agencies in the U.S. that conduct crash tests, one being the NHTSA and other being the private Insurance Institute for Highway Safety —

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Most of you people aren’t even interested in Volvo. Neither were we. The only Volvo we drove previously was the XC60, which was technically advanced but dynamically underwhelming. Then we drove the all-new S60 2.0T recently. Stuck behind a slow Gulf News journalist on a track convoy, we didn’t get much out of that event. Now we got the S60 T6 for five days. And the car is phenomenal, hot damnit.

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The 2010 Abu Dhabi International Motor Show is nearing its opening date. Set to run from the 7th to the 11th of December at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, it will be open to the public from 5 pm on the first day. Various new cars will be launched for the first time at the show, with tickets costing Dhs 20.

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The 2012 Audi A6 has made an early debut in pictures, and is supposedly a fully redesigned model. Good luck spotting the new model when it hits GCC streets in a year though, because it looks like designers spent about 2 seconds photoshopping bits of the 2010 A4 and the 2011 A8 onto the existing A6 to come up with this design.

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General Motors Middle East has announced that they will be revealed three new 4×4 models at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Motor Show, namely the 2011 GMC Acadia Denali trim package, the all-new 2011 GMC Terrain, and the facelifted 2011 Chevrolet Captiva.

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