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After selling our 2005 Peugeot 307 XSI to my buddy, I had made a deal with him to fix the non-working windshield washers and replace the lost remote key. That turned out to be a bit of a hassle.

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British firm Cosworth, known for creating factory-warrantied hypercars for a wide variety of manufacturers, has now come up with the Subaru Impreza WRX STI CS400 just for the UK market. Said to go up against supercars, the Cosworth Impreza certainly has the numbers to back it up.

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As part of the “Tahoe Adventure Weekend,” where we hung out at the Le Meridien Al Aqah till last Sunday morning, we were each sent home to Dubai with a 2010 Chevrolet Tahoe to try out. I had picked the LTZ 4×4 model, and ended up keeping it right till this Thursday.

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58 lucky winners of the Cadillac Driving Experience from around the region were treated to a five-star weekend at The Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, highlighted by “intense action” on the Yas Marina Circuit, the world-famous Formula 1 track.

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Ali & Sons Co. L.L.C. – one of the UAE’s leading commercial powerhouses and suppliers of premium automotive brands – has acquired sole dealership rights to distribute Skoda throughout the UAE.

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As if feeling Lamborghini were feeling left out, the U.S. NHTSA safety agency has ordered the VW-owned Italian firm to join the recall party, by making them fix their 2007-2008 Murcielago issue that could cause a fire hazard.

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The sub-compact 2011 BMW X1 crossover is now available in the UAE and across the GCC. Based on the 1-Series platform, the X1 will be sold in xDrive all-wheel-drive and sDrive rear-wheel-drive forms in the Middle East.

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The General organised a little two-day trip for journalists to the Le Meridien Al Aqah, with some scuba diving, private rooms and Chevy Tahoes thrown in for good measure. I was a bit perplexed as to why they were promoting the unchanged-for-2010 Tahoe, but heck, who are we to argue.

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Burmester, the German hi-fi supremos who designed and built the pinnacle of audio engineering into the Porsche Panamera and the new generation 2011 Porsche Cayenne SUV has singled out Audissey for bringing the pleasures of pure sound to the UAE.

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Peugeot has brought back the GTi name with the launch of the new 308 GTi. The Peugeot 308 model is a highly under-rated car in this region, as the hatchback craze is not as popular here as in Europe.

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