Fresh of Audi opening its largest dealership in London, another top-flight car brand is set to open their own, this time in the waiting arms of the millionaire’s playground, Dubai.
That car brand is Ferrari, and recently the Prancing Horse opened a mammoth single-storey floor space dealership – some say the size is in the neighbourhood of 1,000 square meters – in Dubai. Present during the official ribbon cutting were Ferrari F1 drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Giancarlo Fisichella, who were both in town because for the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi. Also present were Edwin Fenech, the general manager of Ferrari Middle East & Africa and Shafqat Malik, the CFO of Aldar Properties and Chairman of Fadar Retail, which, incidentally, is a major partner of Ferrari in the region.
The official launch of the new dealership came with a number of exhibits and side events, including a major Ferrari parade on October 30 that will start in Dubai and end at the Yas Marina F1 circuit in Abu Dhabi – the site of this weekend’s race. The parade will feature about 100 Ferraris – old and new – and will be highlighted by the new Ferrari California.
Want to put your imprint on what future Camaro models would look like?
Here’s your chance. General Motors is scheduled to make an appearance at the SEMA show next week and the Detroit-based automaker is bringing with it six graphics packages for the Camaro so the general public can vote for the design they like best. The winning design will then be featured in succeeding models of the Camaro.
Those who won’t be able to attend the show can also vote via the Camaro’s page on Facebook. You can also check out all six designs packages for the Camaro so you can choose which one you like best.
Anytime you’re stopping on a red light and you see an Audi TTS beside you with no driver in sight, then consider yourself one of the lucky few to have seen the robotic Audi TTS that was developed by a group of scientists from Stanford University.
We all know that Stanford has had a long history of producing robotic cars but their latest pet project is far and away the most ambitious undertaking they’ve ever done. To be clear, the robotic Audi TTS is far more than just your run-off-the-mill robot vehicle – if you can even get away saying something like that. The folks from Stanford who created the technological marvel have plans on entering their autonomous ride to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a rigorous twenty-kilometer race for a car-driven driver, let alone a driverless vehicle. Ambitious as the challenge may be, the robotic Audi TTS clearly has something going for it, not the least of which is posting an ‘unofficial’ speed record for an autonomous car after posting speeds in excess of 130 mph.
We all keep talking about the future of vehicles, but advancements regarding automated driving have never reached this stage so you can bet your bottom dollar that this will not be the last time we hear from those folks from Stanford.
This is a video is a reminder that despite your cars being parked in an orderly manner at a parking lot, it’s still not safe from reckless drivers who have momentary lapses in judgment.
The incident happened in a parking lot outside an Extreme Fitness gym on Thornhill, Ontario. The surveillance video begins without incident – a group of cars parked quietly in the lot. Then, a BMW X5 shows up and is about to quietly park in one of the empty slots when the driver somehow accelerates the X5, going over the hoods of two hapless vehicles in the process.
With nobody in sight to see his boo-boo – or so he thought – the driver of the X5 quickly reverses his SUV out of the parking lot and goes about his merry way as if nothing happened. Unfortunately, the surveillance team captured every second of his buccaneering ways and once he’s identified, he’s going to have to pay a steep price for his over-eagerness to park.
A series of BMWs recently took to the Salzburgring racetrack in Austria to run a few laps in the circuit. Now, normally this wouldn’t come off as groundbreaking news but these Beamers are not your ordinary BMWs; they all come from the prestigious M lineage of BMWs.
Running down the list of those present, it looks like the M fleet was well-accounted for, including the new X6 M, the M3, the M5, and even the M3 GT4.
Now, we can all sit on our chairs and daydream about the day when we can call ourselves ‘owners’ of one of these mouth-watering vehicles, or we can sit back and enjoy the video. It’s your call,
When you’re driving on a busy thoroughfare, the last thing you’d want to happen is to get involved in a car crash. Unfortunately, when you have hundreds upon hundreds of vehicles jostling through traffic at any given time, one wrong move could spell disaster for you and for your precious ride.
In this particular incident, which was captured by a man driving a Subaru, by the way, a Dodge Viper was manoeuvring in and around traffic on a relatively light day out on the highway. Whether or not he was rushing to go somewhere or he was just showing off the power under his hood, the driver of the Viper got a little too aggressive on the road and as he was about to make yet another overtaking move, he mistakenly swerved onto a lane where the cars were stopped.
In his defense, he did try to brake as hard as he could, as evidenced by the smoke coming out of his tires. Unfortunately, it was all for naught as he ended up crashing onto the back of an innocent white van. Just goes to show that no matter how fast or powerful your car may be, it still has to abide by the conditions of the road ahead of it, and much to the driver’s dismay, his Viper ended up paying a pretty steep price for his over aggressive driving.
Fox Marketing Cars was responsible for bringing a bright orange twin turbochargedIS-F to SEMA last year, and with the advent of the new drop top Lexus IS C, Fox Marketing is up to their old tricks again with a lime green open air IS for this year’s automotive aftermarket retreat in Las Vegas. The Exterior of this IS350 convertible has been given a more muscular makeover thanks to a bold front chin spoiler, custom wide body front fenders and lower hanging side skirts from the IS-F super sedan as well as a new rear bumper and a carbon fiber rear wing to complete the IS C’s aerodynamic upgrades.
Finishing off the visual appeal of the lime green Fox Marketing Lexus IS C are a set of staggered iForged wheels, measuring 20 inches in diameter all around and 9 inches wide up front and 11.5 inches in the rear. This particular Fox has been tuned to produce a total of 450 HP thanks to a ProCharger Supercharger System strapped to the 3.5 Lier V6 and a new F-Sport Exhaust system to spit out the spent gasses. We will have to see just how well this new tuner creation stacks up to last year’s bright orange boosted IS-F when we arrive in sin city to take in the sights ourselves.
The Japanese have the propensity to get overly excited over the simplest of things so when it comes to what they consider as ‘monumental achievements’, you can be sure that they’re exhilaration would go through the roof.
In a recent drift session in Japan, a Nissan RPS13 that was being driven by one M. Kawabata performed an eye-popping reverse-entry slide, drifting the car around a corner with the car’s rear end turning first while maintaining that position for the duration of the turn amidst all the smoking tires. Some people are calling the move ‘the best drift ever’ and justifiably so, it was as beautiful as any drift you’ll ever see with your own two eyes.
As far as the Japanese folks who were commentating on the event? Well, they’re reactions were just as priceless.
Far from our television sets here in America, Toyota’s Australian division, together with world renowned ad agency Saatchi and Saatchi, released a new commercial featuring the car brand’s hybrid synergy drive technology.
Calling the commercial “Better Together”, Toyota is hoping that the ad triggers an influx of interest for its eight new hybrid models, which is scheduled to hit the local market over the course of the next four years.
From what we’ve been told, Toyota’s first salvo in the Aussie car market is the new – and locally built – Camry Hybrid, which is scheduled to hit local showrooms in the early part of the next year.
In the commercial, you can see a man performing his daily routine at work with another version of himself ‘assisting’ him every step of the way. The commercial then goes on and describes this relationship as similar to how Toyota’s hybrid synergy technology works, combining the elements of a petroleum engine with that of an electric motor, which then produces more power with less fuel.
According to David Buttner, Toyota Australia’s senior executive director for sales and marketing, "The key message is ’Better Together’ - that two things working together can achieve more than any one thing ever could."
Toyota is re-emphasizing its position with the new commercial and unlike those that have come out with the same message of fuel efficiency, Toyota’s stature as one of the foremost authorities in hybrid technology bears more weight to us yearning for the future in fuel technology.
You might have seen this sleek C6 based concept in the big screen blockbuster Transformers 2 and was previously known as the Corvette Centennial Concept, however now we can call the Stingray by its true name. Full of cues from a bygone era like the split rear window that dates back to the original 1963 StingrayCorvette. The concept made its debut earlier this year in Chicago, but it looked as good as ever sitting in South Beach. This concept came in a close second for concept vehicle of the show, but was only edged out slightly by its Cadillac cousin’s roof mounted solar panel. However the Stingray is absolutely stunning and the word is that the next generation Corvette will draw its inspiration from this concept.
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