While the boring 2010 Volkswagen Polo hasn’t been launched in the UAE yet, to our limited knowledge, the People’s Car manufacturer has unveiled a sedan variant of the Polo. The resulting design mess is so unflattering that they quietly launched it in Russia in front of 200 guests.
This image of what looks like the next-generation Ford Explorer is doing the rounds of the internet. While many believe it is the real deal, we believe it is simply a manipulation of an existing spy shot. Even then, based on the spy shots, this is likely identical to how the new SUV will look like. Said to be debuting in early 2011, it could either be badged as a 2011 or a 2012 model.
Paolo Dionisi, the Italian Ambassador to the UAE, with his family, celebrated Italian Republic Day at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the world’s first Ferrari theme park set to open on October 28, 2010. Claus Frimand, General Manager of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, and Ousama Ghannoum, Marketing and Media Director at Aldar Properties PJSC, escorted Mr. Dionisi and his family to a special preview of Bell’Italia, a miniature recreation of famous Italian cityscapes, structures and racing venues.
وقد سمّى هذا اللقب ـ الذي يتم منحه تكريماً للمعرفة الفريدة التي يتميّز بها مستشار خدمة ما بعد البيع، والالتزام الشخصي بإصلاح المركبة وتقديم الاستشارة للعميل ـ أندرياس شيفر من شركة بهبهاني للسيارات كأفضل مستشار خدمة ما بعد البيع في العالم رسمياً.
وتهدف المسابقة التي تشهد الآن عامها الثالث إلى المحافظة على مستوى جودة خدمة ما بعد البيع التي تقدمها علامة فولكس واجن لعملائها والعمل على الإرتقاء بها، هذا بالإضافة إلى تعزيز جسر التواصل بين شركة تصنيع السيارات والمستوردين وتجار تجزئة في أسواقها العالمية.
A service adviser from Volkswagen Middle East’s partner in Kuwait, has topped 120 so-called service specialists from 60 countries, to be crowned the 2010 Volkswagen Service Qualification World Champion, at a finals ceremony held recently in May in Wolfsburg, Germany.
The U.S. NHTSA safety agency is looking into complaints that the floor mats on the 2010 Ford Fusion, and its deadbeat Mercury Milan twin, are jamming the accelerator pedal. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. This is the same paranoid issue as the Toyota floor-mat recall that blew up into a worldwide fiasco.
Ford’s overcrowded stable of brands just got smaller, with an announcement that the Mercury brand will be killed off by the end of 2010. The signs were already there, considering how there is almost zero advertising for Mercury in this region, and that we’ve never driven one.
New test results show that some automakers are doing a good job of designing vehicle roofs that perform much better than current U.S. federal rollover standards require. But the roofs on some other vehicles need improvement. In the first U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) roof strength tests of so-called midsize SUVs, six earn the top rating of ‘good’ for rollover protection, one is ‘acceptable’ and five others earn the second lowest rating of ‘marginal.’
We’ve had in our possession a 2000 BMW Z3 M Roadster since the beginning of 2008. It is as close as limited-income people like us can get to owning an exotic car without selling off kidneys and limbs. But in the past decade, the Z3 was replaced by the Z4, and then came a second-generation Z4 in 2009. So for a few days in 2010, we had in our possession a BMW Z4 sDrive30i. Ironically, the new mid-range Z4 now costs as much as the M Roadster used to cost a decade ago. So is a regular Z4 really at the same level as an M-tuned Z3 of the past?