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First drive: 2014 Dodge Durango V6 in the UAE

First drive: 2014 Dodge Durango V6 in the UAE


With all the hype over three-row crossover SUVs such as the Ford Explorer, the Honda Pilot and the Nissan Pathfinder, we’re wondering why more people don’t ask us about the Dodge Durango when discussing their shopping lists. They should, because we could hardly find a fault with the facelifted 2014 version that we just drove across the country in.

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Mini-cars do poorly in "small overlap" crash test

Mini-cars do poorly in “small overlap” crash test


The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the United States runs a unique “small-overlap” crash test where they make all test-subject cars to crash into an immobile object with only part of the frontal area of the car. It is supposed to replicate what happens when the front corner of a vehicle collides with another vehicle or an object such as a tree or a lamp-post. In the test, 25%t of a vehicle’s front end on the driver’s side strikes a rigid barrier at 64 kph. And the 11 mini-cars tested performed poorly, although it’s not a huge surprise.

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First ride: 2014 Royal Enfield Continental GT in the UAE

First ride: 2014 Royal Enfield Continental GT in the UAE


The stares and the curiosity were unavoidable. I saw jaws drop and grown up men behave like children. Suddenly, everyone wanted to prove that their motorcycling days started astride a motorcycle like this. All this drama took place on one of the weekend rides earlier this month when I turned up on this, the all-new Royal Enfield Continental GT.

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