San Paolo, Brazil/Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy - A few days ago the jury members of the Middle East Motor Award, including Auto Arabia's editor Mohamed Sheta, chose the Aventador as the best cars in its category. A few days later Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini attended the Aventador debut in South America, where the new Lamborghini Aventador LP ......read more

Speeches of Board Chairman Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board, BMW AG, Board Members , Ian Robertson, Dr. Klaus Draeger, at the World premiere of the new BMW 3 Series Sedan, Munich, BMW Welt, October 14, 2011 Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board, BMW AG: Ladies and gentlemen, We are especially proud of this car. The BMW 3 Series has been a key factor ......read more

Gaydon - Dubai / At the prestigious Royal Automobile Club last night, international motorsport legend, Sir Stirling Moss took delivery of his newly purchased Aston Martin Cygnet; a surprise birthday present for wife, Lady Moss. One of the closest teams in motorsport for many years, Sir Stirling and Lady Moss planned a private celebratory dinner on the eve of her birthday at the ......read more

Rolle (Switzerland) - Dubai (UAE) / Infiniti in the Middle East has not reached the same success like Lexus did. But this might change soon, as Infiniti has announced that Bernard Loire, will be appointed as Vice President, Infiniti Europe and Middle East, based in Rolle, Switzerland from August 1, 2011. Currently Vice President Sales Operations, Nissan Europe, Bernard replaces ......read more

18.04.2011 / Woking (England) - Dubai / McLaren Automotive is celebrating a 1-2 with the announcement of the MP4-12C as Vehicle Dynamics International Car of the Year and the company’s engineers recognised as the Dynamics Team of the Year. Vehicle Dynamics International magazine’s respected awards jury featured professional engineers and senior motoring journalists from the ......read more

Rolle (Switzerland) – Dubai (UAE) / Infiniti, the global luxury automotive brand from Japan, announces today that Andreas Sigl has been appointed Global Director of its Formula One activities, with immediate effect. Sigl, formerly General Manager, Global Brand Innovation and Experiential, will be responsible for the global activation of the newly-announced sponsorship with Red ......read more

17.03.2011 / Stockholm - Dubai - Cairo / With effect from September 1st 2011, the Board of Directors of AB Volvo has decided to appoint Olof Persson (46) - currently President of Volvo Construction Equipment - as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Volvo Group when Leif Johansson, as announced previously, retires. As of May 1st, Olof Persson will become Executive ......read more

11.01.2011 / Detroit-Crewe-Dubai / Wolfgang Dürheimer (52) prepared for his new role as the Chairman and Chief Executive of Bentley Motors at the Detroit Motor Show today when he accepted the keys to one of the company’s most revered cars – W.O. Bentley’s 1930 8-litre saloon which was his official company car. The 8-litre, now owned by Bentley Motors and still driven to ......read more

The normal Skoda Fabia 1.6 is surely one of the most under-rated cars in Egypt and the Middle East, let alone the Skoda Fabia RS. But in the UK the situation is totally different, where Fifth Gear presenter Jonny Smith made full use of the Fabia vRS' standard 7-speed, twin-clutch gearbox and its 0-62mph time of just 7.3 seconds to break seven national records for time taken to cover 5km, ......read more

15.07.2010 / Dubai / Finally Daimler Middle East & Levant has received a new media-experienced marketing manager in Dubai. Lebanese Fadi El Aswad has joined the Daimler Middle East & Levant team at the Dubai-based office as Marketing Manager, Mercedes-Benz Cars. He replaces the Egyptian Ashraf Tamim who joined Abdul Rahman AlBisher & Zaid AlKazemi Co., the authorised ......read more

Hot on the heels of her starring role at the World Cup kick-off concert and recent Glastonbury Festival appearance global pop sensation Shakira has announced details of the European leg of her 2010 world tour, sponsored by SEAT. A dizzying schedule of European dates throughout November and December this year will see the Colombian singer perform all over the Continent, with dates ......read more

Several U.S. investments funds, including Elliott Associates, Glenhill Capital and Perry Partners, have filed a lawsuit against the German car manufacturer Porsche, as reported by The Wall Street Journal yesterday (27.01.2010). The funds are seeking to recover more than $1 billion in losses related to Porsche’s takeover bid for the Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen company. The ......read more

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced today (25.01.2010) the appointment of Quill Motorcars Sdn Bhd as its authorised dealer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The opening of the new show-room in Kuala Lumpur comes only a few weeks after Rolls Royce canceled its dealer-ship agreement with the Bavarian Auto Group (BAG) in Cairo, which in-spite of that is still advertising and announcing that they ......read more

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has today (21.01.2010) announced that Torsten Müller-Ötvös will join the company as its Chief Executive Officer. He will assume the role at the end of March 2010 from Tom Purves, who will retire after 25 years service with the BMW Group. During his more than 20 years with the Group, Torsten has held a number of management positions in the Sales and ......read more

Columbian superstar Shakira and SEAT have signed a collaboration agreement which sees the sporty Spanish car manufacturer become the main sponsor of the international pop star’s forthcoming European tour. This agreement will link the young, sporty image of the SEAT brand to the amazing musical talent of Shakira, currently enjoying great success with her latest album She ......read more

25.11.2009 / Wolfsburg-Cairo / Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, and Hans Dieter Pötsch, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft responsible for “Finance and Controlling”, will join the Board of Management of Porsche Automobil Holding SE effective November 25, 2009. They will exercise these ......read more

In their meeting this week (6.11.2009) the Supervisory Board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, appointed Lutz Meschke (43) a Member of the Executive Board of the manufacturer of sporting premium cars. With immediate effect, Meschke, previously the Head of Central Controlling of Porsche AG, is taking over top management of the Finance and Operations Division as well as Purchasing ......read more

DETROIT – Carl-Peter Forster, GM group vice president and president, Opel Europe, will be leaving his role as head of European operations and will advise the company during the transition to find a new CEO, it was announced today. With the departure of Forster, GM will initiate an immediate external search for a new CEO for Opel Europe and will work with Opel leadership, in ......read more

Amman, Jordan - While F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone announced his support for Jean Todt's bid for the FIA presidency yesterday (25th of September), we were informed today that another high-caliber motor-sport official from the Middle East will be supporting Ari Vatanen. HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein, the pioneering leader of sport in Jordan, has accepted an invitation from FIA ......read more

It seems that Volkswagen Nutzfahrzeuge will finally get more attention in the Middle East, as Volkswagen Middle East has announced the appointment of Stefan Mecha as the new Managing Director for the Middle East region with immediate effect. Mecha has over 15 years experience in the automotive industry, with five years at Volkswagen and will be responsible for driving the ......read more

After Ferrari confirmed that 7-time F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher is returning to F1 on the 23rd of August during the Valencia F1 race, Michael talks about the competitive edge at Maranello, how Stefano Domenicali has brought a new era to the Scuderia and how Shell works alongside both the road car and sporting departments, promoting the transfer of technology from the race track ......read more

Europe's biggest car manufacturer Volkswagen AG is planning to purchase all of Stuttgart-based sports carmaker Porsche, which has run into massive financial problems linked to its overly ambitious plan to take control of Volkswagen. Such a take-over is expected to be influencing the Porsche networks world-wide, and especially the networks in the Middle East and North Africa The ......read more