Dongfeng Venucia R50 from China based on Nissan Tiida
Chinese joint-venture Dongfeng-Nissan has officially launched the Venucia R50 for the China-only market, which is based on the current Nissan Tiida sold in the UAE and GCC markets.
Chinese joint-venture Dongfeng-Nissan has officially launched the Venucia R50 for the China-only market, which is based on the current Nissan Tiida sold in the UAE and GCC markets.
Be careful before you spend your money on new tyres. UAE authorities have accused several tyre dealers of making easy money by defrauding customers into buying old tyres as new. Many of them are even replacing new tyre “frames” with older ones that may have been imported more than a year ago.
The last few years may not have been glamorous for Peugeot, considering how they lost sales. But by the looks of it, they seem to be staging a fightback into the hot hatch segment, as they let loose details on the 2013 208 GTi and the equivalent 208 XY variant.
A newly-installed Ras Al Khaimah speed radar was set on fire last Wednesday during the early hours of the day.
It isn’t everyday that media people get to drive a supercar. Well, in our case, we never get to drive a supercar. The closest we’d come before was the Nissan GT-R, but that’s stretching it. But then we finally managed to talk ourselves into the driver’s seat of one. We skipped secretive Ferrari, Lamborghini et al and went straight to the McLaren MP4-12C, the British carmaker’s first proper model since they redefined the meaning of “supercar” more than a decade ago with the McLaren F1.
It’s the same, but different. If you remember, we drove around in a borrowed 2012 Volkswagen Passat CC for the better part of five months last winter. It was a great car. So great in fact, that we called it the best midsize sedan ever. And the 2013 builds on that excellent base.
Hennessey has taken Cadillac’s CTS-V coupe, done away with the supercharged 6.2-litre V8 in favour of a 7-litre engine block and force-fed it by a pair of turbos for some extra oomph. They call it the 2013 Hennessey VR1200 Twin Turbo Coupe.
This year at the Paris Motor Show, which is officially known as Paris Mondial de l’Automobile 2012, we will see Mazda showcase the all-new 2014 Mazda 6 Wagon, alongside the Mazda 6 Sedan.
Ever fancied a life where you have so much of wealth to spare that you want everything around you, including your car, to be unique enough to boast your individuality? If you do have that kind of money, and if that unique car which you fancy happens to be something like a McLaren, then fancy no more – McLaren Special Operations, the division of McLaren Automotive responsible for bespoke projects, can realise your dreams, just as they did for an anonymous client of theirs, by building an exclusive model perfectly designed to match the client’s desires, and calling it the X-1 concept.
As one of the most successful cars of all time, Honda’s designers surely have gone through a dangerous phase designing the new Accord, not only because there is pressure from past and current owners who expect to be impressed, but because there are a whole slew of new buyers the automaker is looking to impress. But, with that in mind, the newly-designed Honda Accord is no disappointment.