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With its power, balance and razor‑sharp steering, the thrilling M2 marks a return to form for BMW. And even if it's the brand’s most affordable performance coupé, don’t mistake it for a stepping stone to something pricier: it's a halo model.
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Supercars are supposed to be stupid: loud, lairy, utterly pointless theatre. Hybrids are supposed to be sensible. The Revuelto proves both can coexist — while, somehow allowing the madness to win.
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Forget another tarted-up 911. This brutal wedge from Italy’s wildest decade has been quietly reborn, reengineered, and gunning for the restomod crown — with a spec sheet that finally matches its jaw-dropping attitude.
Shakespeare may have coined the phrase, “A jack of all trades is a master of none,” but he never witnessed the magic of the 2025 Range Rover SV. Practical, quiet, comfortable and fast. Beautiful inside and out. Capable and rewarding to drive on the road, no less capable off it. It can do it all.
Lotus' Theory 1 isn’t some hackneyed pastiche of the Esprit, it’s an electric concept car that attempts to chart a path for the future with some very forward-looking ideas.
The Spectre is not the fastest, rangiest, or even most innovative EV on the market. Compromises had to be made of course. It is however an exceptional example of hand-crafted luxury, and the Rolls Royce of electric cars.
At a cost of more than 1.25 billion USD, and including 26 residences around the central courtyard, the 190-room Peninsula is London’s first new-build five-star hotel since the Bulgari opened in 2012. It has certainly raised the bar.
Land Rover secretly resurrected its most beloved classic 4x4 – then armed it with a 5.0‑litre V8 and some modern luxury. They're not cheap but they are incredibly collectible, as we found out firsthand.
Porsche lifted a 911 GTS, armored its belly, fitted all‑terrain rubber and priced it like a supercar. Desert racer or pointless toy? We lived with the 911 Dakar for a week to find out.
Aston Martin’s DB12 marks a turning point, combining the marque’s signature elegance with genuine sporting ability, sharper handling, modern technology, and newfound everyday usability to create a compelling super tourer.
With AI, 3D printing, and generative design, Czinger and Divergent are challenging everything we know about building cars, from factory floors to hypercar performance.
Bandit9 is taking its custom motorcycle expertise to the EV world with the Monaco, a lightweight electric supercar blending Batman-inspired styling, blistering performance and old-school driving thrills in one extraordinary package.
Aston Martin arrived late to the luxury SUV party, but the DBX refuses to play by anyone else’s rules. Gorgeous, muscular and gloriously dramatic, it blends everyday usability with unmistakable British attitude.
Behind Lamborghini’s legendary supercars lies a quieter revolution: a bold transformation driven by electrification, renewable energy and biodiversity. Inside its Sant’Agata factory, tradition and technology converge to redefine what performance will stand for in the future.
Fifty years ago, the Range Rover transformed the humble off-roader into a luxury statement. Today, as SUVs dominate global sales and supercar makers join the race, its influence remains impossible to ignore.
Designed for owners who want to be driven during the week and drive themselves on weekends, the Ghost EWB adds extra space, extraordinary comfort and unmistakable Rolls-Royce refinement.
When Italy was brought to a standstill by Covid-19, Lamborghini responded with an unexpected love letter: sending photographers across all 20 regions to capture the places, people and landscapes that make the country extraordinary.
The Mercedes-AMG G63 has always been excessive, but Inkas has taken that excess to another level. Stretching, armouring and lavishly upgrading the iconic SUV, this bizarre limousine is built for maximum protection and comfort.
Traffic pollution can make your car’s cabin surprisingly unhealthy. Meet Airbubbl, an innovative in-car air purifier designed to filter harmful particles, gases and airborne pathogens, helping drivers breathe cleaner air on the road.
Can an electric car deliver the soul of a Porsche? With staggering performance, razor-sharp handling and cutting-edge technology, the Taycan challenges everything we thought we knew about electric sports cars. But is it the real deal?
What happens when a former rock star sets out to build the ultimate Porsche 911? Meet Rob Dickinson, the visionary behind Singer Vehicle Design, transforming overlooked classics into breathtaking automotive masterpieces where obsession, artistry and engineering collide.
The Hummer is back, but this time it’s ditching petrol for volts. With up to 1,000hp, futuristic technology and serious off-road credentials, GM’s electric giant could rewrite the rules of the game.
Love it or loathe it, Tesla’s Cybertruck refuses to blend in. From its bulletproof ambitions and supercar acceleration to clever features and futuristic tech, discover six reasons this electric beast demands attention.
The Audi RS Q8 blends supercar performance with everyday practicality, delivering thrilling V8 power, exceptional handling and executive comfort. It’s a discreet yet devastatingly capable SUV that proves luxury and adrenaline can coexist effortlessly.
Perhaps, like us, you’ve always admired the bravery of Dakar Rally drivers. Well if that’s the case then you’ll enjoy this one. It’s Ken Block letting rip across Saudi Arabia in the all-electric race car Extreme E Odyssey 21.
Three years after it launched, Maserati has finally fitted a V8 in its SUV. Faster, better looking and better equipped with attention-grabbing features, it might finally give the competition a run for their money. When Maserati launched the Levante in 2016, it seemed the silver bullet t…
Women couldn’t drive in Saudi Arabia until last year, but race driver Reema Juffali is taking her right to drive to the next level. Against all odds, she’s forging a trailblazing career in the male-dominated world of motorsports. Five years ago, no one would have believed that a Saudi w…
Having put the sport into the SUV, Porsche took eleven years to embrace the coupé silhouette that BMW pioneered with its X6 in 2008. We examine the marque's belated yet compelling answer to a popular segment.
Three days after globally unveiling its Black Badge Cullinan online, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars organised the car’s first real-world drive event in the Middle East, inviting a select number of the region’s most important journalists and bloggers (including Official Bespoke’…
Designed with off-grid living in mind, this is the luxury Airstream we’ve always dreamt of. To be totally honest, camper vans and trailers rarely pop up on our radar. There’s just too much compromise involved. But when we discovered the Living Vehicle, from Santa Barbara, Californ…
A sumptuous front-engined 2+2 drop-top that slots neatly between Ferrari and Bentley, this V12 Aston pairs neck-snapping pace and faultless build with the brand's most arresting design in years.
The EV market is heating up with traditional carmakers competing with the frontrunner Tesla. But Lucid Air is about to change everything, and Saudi investment is what’s financing its impending ascent. “There’s no silver bullet when it comes to tackling global warming. It’s kind of like …
Following the record-breaking La Voiture Noire, the Molsheim marque unveiled its eight-million-euro Centodieci at Pebble Beach. Limited to just ten examples, this rare spin-off pays homage to a celebrated chapter of Bugatti's storied past.
A decade ago electric cars seemed glorified golf karts with washing-machine charisma. Then Tesla's Model S and Model X arrived, banishing sluggish acceleration and meagre ranges, and reinvented the entire playing field.
Having put the new 911 Carrera S Cabriolet through its paces around Southern Athens, we can say that less is more from the moment you drop the roof. It’s funny because I’ve only recently realised I’m a convertible guy. I had spent years leaning towards the coupé version of sportscars wi…
McLaren is young in carmaking, yet the all-new GT marks its third tilt at a genuine grand tourer, following the stillborn 1969 M6GT and the 2016 570GT that brought comfort to the 570S.
Imagine a Sunday drive in a red Ferrari convertible: sun on your face, wind in your hair, an exotic aural symphony heightening your senses as you balance throttle with traction, slinging from corner to corner in a flawless communion of mechanics and dynamics. Well that’s exactly what I …
Twenty five years after production of the coveted F1 supercar ended, McLaren is once again putting drivers in the centre seat with the Speedtail, a 2.25 million USD hyper-grandtourer, 1,035bhp hypercar that places its driver in the middle, with place for two additional passengers either…
Unanimity is rare among carmakers, yet all are now electrifying their line-ups. There have been false dawns across 106 years of mass production, from the early Studebakers to the Fisker Karma and beyond.
It’s interesting to note that Rolls-Royce has continually avoided ever calling their first four-wheel drive an SUV. And while they apparently wanted to underplay its considerable capabilities by persistently calling it a “high-sided vehicle” during the run up to its debut, you shouldn’t…
Such is the importance of the Gladiator to Jeep’s global customer base, and crucially not just its American one, that FCA (the acronym for the Italian-American Fiat Chrysler Automobiles corporation) thought fit to invite a handful of press from the Middle East to its global unveiling at…
Though it might look like it, no cars were harmed in the making of Fabian Oefner’s works of art. Instead, the young Swiss artist took apart model sets in a process he likens to peeling an onion. Painstakingly laying out the composition of the image in sketches, he then suspended each of…
The McLaren 720S is the new benchmark of supercars, beating the best of what Ferrari and Lamborghini have to offer with a wider breadth of ability. That’s quite something considering the company has only been around eight years. (Okay so they’ve actually been around as a race team…
Flying to Oman to drive Audi's newest SUV, our writer's first impression of the Q8 was confusion. As flagship and range-topper of the Q-brand, this car carries an enormous weight of expectation.
Can a supercar ever be a daily driver? CARIOSITY’s host Issam ‘Simi’ Merheb takes a McLaren 720S through its paces in the streets of Beirut, testing the car’s ability to handle chockablock roads and daily errands. Powered by a twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 that at pumps out…
After making our way from Spielberg through miles of emerald Austrian countryside, over sweetly babbling brooks, past white gingerbread houses with brown trim and window boxes of barely contained pink geraniums, we turned into the forest. From there we took a trail and journeyed up thro…
In September we were invited to San Francisco to witness the future of Audi, and the future it seems is quiet, expensive and electric. But let’s not ignore how consumers are now buying more fossil-fuelled SUVs than ever before, so the question is: why is Audi messing with a good thing? …
If the Veyron rewrote the book when it comes to hypercars, the Chiron represents Bugatti’s next volume. Harder, better, faster, stronger – we uncovered all you need to know about this Ultimate Car at its US launch in Pebble Beach. They say there’s a fine line between madness and genius.…
What inspired you to become a Formula One driver? I used to watch the Grand Prix races with my dad growing up, and I wanted to be Ayrton Senna. Everyone should dream big, and I’ve never stopped pursuing mine since then. If you could be anything other than a racing driver, what would it …
The mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive 720S is not a sportscar, rather it’s an incredibly engineered daily driver supercar that embodies the very best elements from McLaren’s admittedly short history: the usability of the 570GT, the thrills of the 675LT and, even, the pace of the P1 hy…
It was the right idea at the wrong time. These days Porsche builds something like 170,000 SUVs a year but there was a time when the company was so invested in the 911 product line – as a business, and an automotive sub-culture – that doing something else was considered sacrilegious. &nb…
Set against the idyllic views of Lake Como, the annual Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este is an automotive event quite unlike any other. Architects have the Pritzker. Actors have the Oscars. Singers have the Grammies. And cars – well, not just any cars but the finest, rarest and most expe…
It’s a key moment in time for Aston Martin. Let’s not forget that the company, which is now owned by Kuwaiti and Italian investment firms, has gone bankrupt seven times in its 115-year history and, up until 2017, it had posted an annual loss for six years running. Yet, under the steward…
After triumphing with the BMW-beating Giulia Quadrifoglio, Alfa Romeo took an even bigger gamble: the fiercely competitive crossover-SUV segment, today the fastest-growing sector on earth, outselling traditional cars in many markets worldwide.
The new Audi Q5 may not be the fastest in its segment, but it could well be the most convincing, thanks to standout technology and clever, crowd-pleasing features in a market crowded with capable rivals.
The new Audi A8 is more than a luxury saloon, more than a car even. It is the winner of the first heat in the race to turn luxury cars into smart transportation and mobility solutions.
It took more than 50 years of the wrong idea to get it oh-so right. The new rear-engined, two-wheel drive Porsche 911 GT2 RS applies 700 horsepower to the 325-wide Michelins and laughs at the rules, snickers at suspicion and dismisses doubt around the outside of turn 15 at Algarve Inter…
Here at last is the sensational Mercedes-AMG Project One, a hypercar costing 2.8 million dollars and packed with the technology that conquered Formula One. Built at Brixworth, it borrows Lewis Hamilton's actual 1.6-litre hybrid engine.
Some dismiss the 812 Superfast as a facelifted F12, yet Gautam Sharma finds it the pinnacle of everything Maranello stands for: a blindingly fast, front-engined, naturally aspirated V12 grand tourer like no other.
As if owning a Rolls-Royce wasn’t special enough, one of the brand’s most valued customers – described as a “connoisseur and collector of distinctive, one-off items including superyachts and private aircraft” – managed to persuade the 111-year old automaker to create a car j…
The 49.2-metre Ipanema turned heads at Monaco with a striking ruby-red hull, chosen to echo her owner's limited-edition LaFerrari and, by our reckoning, the first yacht to nod to Ferrari in decades.
Car museums rarely wheel out their treasures and hand over the keys, even to seasoned motoring writers. Yet the Porsche Museum gifted our correspondent and a few fellow hacks precisely that rare adventure.
The once perilously fast Mille Miglia road race may have turned into a bit of beauty parade but it’s still a one-of-a-kind occasion that’ll get enthusiasts’ adrenaline pumping. The Mille Miglia (which means 1,000 miles in Italian) was an open-road endurance race that was established by …
Can a Ferrari ever be an everyday driver? The demonically fast GTC4 Lusso just might be. With room for four adults, ample luggage and all-surface four-wheel traction, this could be the most indispensable car Maranello has built.
So Aston Martin acquired three vast hangars in St Athan, in Wales. But before it began converting them into a new production facility (that will be churning out its new SUV in 2019, among other vehicles), the company decided to have a little fun first with 28 of its historic cars.
At the beginning of this year something rather remarkable happened in the automotive world: Mercedes-Benz overtook BMW to become the world’s number one luxury car brand. Though the two motoring rivals have seemingly always been embroiled in a sales war, BMW has held the upper hand since…
With competition in luxury vehicle sales growing ever more intense, Lexus is aiming to differentiate itself by allowing people to experience the brand beyond its cars. Lexus showcased a new tagline during its last Super Bowl ad in the US, announcing a younger, more agile brand that’s re…
Mercedes and Aston Martin rocked the boat with new yacht partnerships unveiled at the Monaco Yacht Show. Silver Arrows Marine's 460 Granturismo and Quintessence's AM37 are covetable speedsters that are far more than they first appear.
Our writer never warmed to the original 2009 Panamera, an ungainly caricature of the 911. Yet Porsche's four-door has matured, and the latest incarnation makes a compelling case for changing one's mind.
With smart new offices in New York and fresh inroads into fashion, Cadillac is reinventing itself. The marque is shedding old habits, unveiling a self-assured attitude embodied by its aspirational flagship, the CT6.
Limited to just 200 examples, all of which have already been sold, Ferrari’s $2million LaFerrari Aperta hybrid convertible sportscar is a hell of a way to celebrate the marque’s 70 years of production. And in this promotional clip, the Scuderia’s F1 race driver, Sebastian Ve…
Slowly, the convoy came to a halt. Headlights flickered off. My first thought was that this was a rotten place to replace another flat tyre. It was dark, we’d been driving all day and there was still a long way to go before we made camp. Then I saw them. Looming out of the gloom, [&hell…
The 35,000-dollar Model 3 aims to take electric transport to the masses, but for Elon Musk affordability is only the entry point to a far grander sustainable-energy ambition.
Building the world's most luxuriant saloon is a challenge Bentley no longer shies from. Having proven its credentials among owner-drivers in the top tier, the new flagship Mulsanne now also appeals to those who prefer to be driven.
Roof down on the Pacific Coast Highway, our writer pilots the latest Mercedes SL south from Los Angeles, sunlight igniting the ocean and palm trees flicking past in staccato rhythm. Life could be worse.
Continuing a rarefied lineage of cars offering blistering speed and astonishing usability, the new Audi R8 V10 Plus is that rare supercar the right side of your brain wants while your left side rationalises the purchase.
Peking to Paris is one of motoring's most demanding classic rallies: thirty-six days driving through the remotest corners of the earth. This June, Charbel Habib and Walid Samaha become its first-ever Arab entrants.
Imagine how you’d be feeling after flying halfway across the world to Los Angeles via the tedium of modern-day commercial air travel. You’d undoubtedly be fatigued, disorientated and a little irritable. In our case, this certainly held true except, waiting for us outside the arrivals te…
Lamborghini says a rear-wheel-drive Huracan was always part of the plan, and expects it to account for most sales. The purer LP 580-2 was conceived not to break records, but for the sheer fun of the road.
Bugatti is a name with a long history of fast, elegant, luxurious and brilliantly technical automotive works of art. Now part of the Volkswagen Group, the French marque is still doing exactly what it does best.
One of the coolest pieces of classic car footage ever made, this video is the result of a collaboration between Red Bull Japan and Takeshi Kimura of Car Guy along with the director Luke Huxham, who apparently wanted to see what it would be like to set off from Tokyo and charge up the sn…
World premieres rarely live up to the hype. So our writer mused, sitting in a VIP room beneath Dubai's Pasha nightclub, as journalists and sheikhs gathered for the regional launch of Nissan's Nismo marque.
Named after the French officer who founded Detroit in 1701, Cadillac boasts remarkable brand equity. From enclosed cabins to the electric ignition, the marque repeatedly moved the motor industry forward at pivotal moments.
After hiring a new chief executive and launching a halo model that resurrects the historic Continental nameplate, Ford's luxury division Lincoln seems to be finding its way once more after decades lost in the automotive wilderness.
In 1977, a five-year-old watched a Lotus Esprit plunge off a Sardinian jetty and morph into a submarine in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. That audacious scene began a lasting love affair with the marque.
Achingly beautiful, fast and rare, Aston Martin's Lagonda Taraf is a super saloon with genuine space for four. Best of all, it was conceived specifically with the Middle East in mind.
We’ve all seen videos of crazy drifting on public streets in Saudi Arabia but we aren’t so aware of the number of people dying every year while taking part in such activities. The problem is so big now that the government is clamping down hard with severe punishments for any…
The new RS7 offers the perfect excuse to reacquaint ourselves with Audi's Quattro subsidiary: its racing division, customisation department, lifestyle brand and attractive portfolio of high-performance road cars. There is much to catch up on.
Is it a fashion shoot or a car commercial? Both, as it happens. Cadillac Middle East's new campaign reveals a proud, confident personality for a marque now recalibrated, independent of General Motors and relocated to Soho.
The new 2016 Cadillac CTS-V has the BMW M5, Mercedes E63 AMG and even the Lexus GS F firmly in its sights. Lighter, more powerful and more sophisticated, it carries just the right American swagger.
The Middle East's largest motoring event is back at the Dubai World Trade Centre with global launches, a Boulevard of Dreams, classic marques and a Jaguar-Bloodhound simulator chasing 1,000 mph.
Since Volkswagen took ownership in 1998, Bentley's renaissance has been remarkable, owed largely to the Continental GT. The latest figures show record sales, up nearly ten per cent, with two-door GTs accounting for more than half production.
Almost everyone knows AMG means a higher-tuned Mercedes-Benz, the seamless meeting of high-tech engineering and handcrafted excellence. Yet few, our writer included, know what the acronym actually stands for, so he asks the people who built it.
Daimler's first attempt to revive Maybach was an uncharacteristic failure. Spurred on when rivals split up England's icons, sending Bentley to Volkswagen and Rolls-Royce to BMW, Stuttgart found itself playing catch-up with its dormant pre-war marque.
Aston Martin is up there at the summit of the world’s coolest brands, along with Nike and Apple. It’s the connoisseur’s carmaker of choice, just ask James Bond. But it’s not all plain sailing and there’s plenty going on behind the scenes to warrant a closer look. I love Aston Martins, I…
Bucking the trend for smaller engines, the six-litre biturbo V12 S65 AMG Coupé is not just sleek, clever and wonderfully fast; it is a modern interpretation of the old-school grand tourer, built for crossing continents.
Flown from Germany for Kuwait's Concours d'Elegance, the Uhlenhaut Coupé is essentially a 1955 W196 Formula One car made roadworthy, a jewel from the Mercedes-Benz Museum's extraordinary collection of Silver Arrows.
Since 1998 the Goodwood Revival has been a brilliant annual extravaganza of motorhead nostalgia. Presented with an invitation to the three-day festival, there was simply no way we could resist revelling in such a romantic time capsule.
Few have heard of Jabal Al Jais, yet at 1,930 metres it is the UAE's highest peak. Part of the Al Hajar range, the world's largest exposure of oceanic crust, it makes thrilling driving country.
Driving a Lamborghini is pure theatre, staged to within an inch of its life. Our writer recalls the comic ordeal of reversing a windowless Countach, scissor door raised, before surrendering to the marque's sensational sense of drama.