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“The New Toys on the Road”
In examining the economic environment of today it comes as a surprise to see the fleet of luxury cars flaunting the streets of Karachi & other metros of Pakistan. Pakistan is currently confronted with its greatest economic struggle with every aspect of the economy heading for an all time low. However in the midst of such testing times the phenomena of imported luxury cars is at its peak. One glance at the road and you can feast your eyes upon the finest automobile offerings from international giants such as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Range rover, Bentley & others. Observing these cars …
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Tagged: 2013 Car News, BMW, cars, Ferrari, imported cars, Karachi, lamborghini, mercedes benz, Pakistan
On the road in their G-Wagon since 1989
Former airline executive Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine left Germany in their Mercedes G-Wagon, bound for an 18-month tour of Africa but somehow, they kept on going and even after covering 500,000 miles, 74 years old Gunther, his wife and the G-Wagon are still going on strong without any sponsorship or factory but self-funded. On the road since 1989 and G-Wagen moves them on even today without any serious break down. And you know what, your exotic G63 or 65 would make them financially broke within days and would never move on. The olden W461 280 G-wagens were the …
Mercedes Benz reveals 2013 AMG SLS GT, no more AMG SLS
First things first, automakers release bucket full of expensive special edition super cars, this however is not that case. Mercedes Benz is done with calling the AMG super car ‘SLS’ and from now on, it will be known as ‘SLS GT’ instead of just SLS. In an automotive world already flooded with tons of acronyms, automakers are always in a hurry to write patents for the names they have a slight of hint of using in the future but not necessarily use it. So with the addition of GT to it’s name, we wonder why Mercedes Benz has focused to …
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Mercedes Benz shows out all it’s models in a Gold-chrome paint
We’ve seen many good cars spoiled by the chrome paint jobs done onto them, the worse blame may rest with the Arabs for having a peculiar taste in choosing colors but Mercedes Benz showed how wrong our thoughts were by rolling all their models in a Gold-chrome paint at the Cannes International Film Festival. While we can expect that kind of bling from owners with more cash rather taste however, we didn’t expect the same treatment to be carried out by Mercedes-Benz itself on its own vehicles – which makes us distraught at what they’ve done here. We were wrong. …
Mercedes Benz makes the F-Cell car invisible using Top Gear’s idea
In an unusual attempt to make their new F-Cell car, Mercedes Benz has decided to make their car invisible. Strangely though, most of the auto media is quoting scientists and geeks at Mercedes Benz to have come up with the idea whereas in reality, it was done by James May and Richard Hammond in their recent DVD release ‘Top Gear At The Movies‘, where they attached LED screen to the right side of the Range Rover and cameras at the other. The cameras than projected the scenes from behind the Range Rover on the LED screen creating an effect making …
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The most vulgar Mercedes Benz SLR Mclaren is on sale for $ 11 million
You sure must’ve seen this abomination of a once great super car called the Mercedes Benz SLR Mclaren which was a normal Mercedes Benz SL class coupe given to Mclaren to beef it up as a sports car and they did one spectacular job with but for some – it was not enough and there was room for, I was going to say improvement but sometimes the engineers and designers do such a great job that you have to admit that if you try to improve than you’ll mess it up. However, so isn’t the case with this abomination, this …
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How Steve Jobs drove a car without number plates
He’s gone leaving behind his legacy of “Think different”, but he didn’t think different when it came to driving his Mercedes Benz SL55 AMG without number plates. Many people speculated that due to his thing different approach, he was more than willing to pay the fines incurred due to driving without number plates, however the real story pops up today about how Jobs through help from a friend found a loophole in the system. It was either Steve or someone close to him who identified the loophole in the California vehicle laws which stated that anyone who just got a …
How you should not wash (detail) the interior of a new Mercedes CLS
Modern vocabulary for car wash has changed, today, washing your car is called ‘detailing’, but for some car detailers, practices has also changed with the appropriate word. So this Italian guy bought a new CLS 350 CDI and like any other new car owners, this dude also wanted to his Mercedes shiny to the tiniest level but money can buy things but it won’t buy you sense which this gentleman lack of which he displayed by taking a hose to his brand new leather interior. According to the Youtube description, the car’s owner moved to the self service hose after …
Team Unimog Punga 2011: Solitude at Altitude
There were lyrics, perhaps unbeknownst, at the time, reminiscing, perhaps more often than we would have cared for, perhaps more often than was appreciated. They, the lyrics, went on from milestone to milestone, from one achievement to the next, from one hurdle till the other. “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death……” It is that fear of the unknown, that desire to succeed, that want to want more, that camaraderie, that essence, that fulfillment, that self actualization, that focus, that function, that made us proud to be men during the week of 15th July – 22nd …
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Mercedes Benz roofless SLS AMG finally introduced
The year 2011 marks the entry of so many super cars that looking back at the names sort of surprises me due to the sheer strength and influence of these names. Ferrari 458 Italia, McLaren MP4-12C, Pagani Huayra and Lamborghini Aventador but while all of them have just been produced in the coupe format, Mercedes Benz has been quite quick with the SLS AMG Roadster (convertible). We all know the SLS AMG is based on the famous 300 SL Gullwing and Roadster, the SLS AMG’s design was the direct successor of the 300 SL which had a convertible as well …
