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May 9, 2012Video: Ostrich runs through Saudi traffic… and a drive-through too!
May 2, 2012Some of the wildest auto-related videos tend to come out of Saudi Arabia. Now, it takes a strange twist. Why there’s an ostrich sprinting alongside road traffic completely baffles me. Watch the video after the jump.
Neglected Ferrari Enzo in Dubai doesn’t make the auction block
April 30, 2012A few days ago, I posted news on the world’s most expensive police sale in Dubai. It was so extravagant that the car auction even had a Ferrari Enzo on the chopping block. BUT now… the Dubai Police say the car was seized as evidence in a crime, meaning it was
Most expensive police sale in history to take place in Dubai
April 25, 2012When the economic crisis struck, many cars were left abandoned by their owners in Dubai. Majority of these people just couldn’t afford to hold onto these cars anymore, let alone any of their other expensive purchases. Add the fact that being in debt is a crime in Dubai, and it makes sense why some of [...]
Kuwait looking into “crushing” cars of the speedy
April 15, 2012We all know that the GCC has plenty of issues when it comes to speeding. What is Kuwait’s cure to the problem? Crushing the offender’s car! Drivers caught speeding will have their automobiles confiscated, taken to the crusher and then
U.A.E gentleman “went hard and he went home”
April 2, 2012In case you didn’t read the title in the manner which I intended for it to be read, then please read it again to the tune of will.i.am’s song: T.H.E. Ok, now that we got that settled, this gentleman from Abu Dhabi did just that… no joke! He took his heavily-modified Audi RS6 for
The fun side to Abu Dhabi’s 2-seater F1 car experience
March 27, 2012It has definitely been a slow week here on Brake Banzeen. Heck, it’s been a slow week pretty much everywhere in the auto news world! But I thought it would be good to show the other side to Yas Marina’s F1 2-seater experience in Abu Dhabi. If you remember a recent post of mine, I [...]
Datsun’s back baby!
March 20, 2012Carlos Ghosn, Renault-Nissan chief executive, has confirmed that the Datsun brand is coming back to life. Positioned as a budget car brand, Datsun’s cars will be available in certain territories, such as Indonesia, Russia, and India. Although Indonesia will get the first batch, all three markets will receive cars by 2014. I highly doubt that Datsun [...]
Oops! Wikipedia uses an IP address to reveal which carmaker was being sneaky
March 19, 2012VS The good ole’ folks over at Wikipedia recently uncovered that an employee from Daimler AG (the company that owns Mercedes-Benz) deleted information from a page about the German company. This particular page stated that Daimler received the “Worst EU Lobbying Award” for delaying binding CO2 reduction targets. How can Wikipedia be so sure that [...]
Saudi stunt driving: A for creativity, F for intelligence
March 14, 2012Definitely do not replicate these stunts! But, I must admit that these lunatics are quite creative. Watch it after the jump.
A piece of Senna in Kuwait
February 13, 2012I had to pass by Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive showroom the other day and as I walked in, BAM! Less than 5 meters away from me was a car I drooled over during my childhood: McLaren F1′s MP4-8 race car. Why I admired it as a teenager was because in 1993, Ayrton Senna piloted [...]
Woman in Abu Dhabi finds out why seat belts are important in an F1 car… the hard way
February 4, 2012At the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, they have 2-seater F1 cars on hand for people to experience the sheer insanity of their V10-powered, 700bhp open-wheel race cars. The cars are capable of hitting 5G of G-force, so being tightly secured in the cockpit is a serious requirement. Unfortunately for this passenger, the belts weren’t [...]
The Ariel Atom is built in China… no it isn’t!
January 24, 2012The Chinese can copy anything. They’re capable of mimicking the tiniest screw to the largest skyscraper. So why not the Ariel Atom? Cue some random Chinese mechanic living in a shed. Why the Atom? We’ll never know but this guy obviously knew he could pull it off to some
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