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VW And Audi Lied About Cars’ Emissions And May Have To Pay About $18 Billion...

Pakistani automakers catch a lot of flak from Pakistanis about their malpractices, but once in a while, a global automaker is found of fraudulent activity that dwarfs the crap Pakistani automakers have...

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So I Took My 2015, 1300 KMS Driven Suzuki Mehran For Its First Service

Before we get started, let me make it clear, the car is a company car, and not owned by my family. So there’s no reason for you to go mad and utter stuff like, “Mehran logay to aisay hi hoga“; “Why...

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Calm Down People! Honda Civic Was Just Cultusified By Honda Pakistan!

It is quite unfortunate to see Honda Atlas, Honda’s Pakistani manufacturing arm to stoop to the level of Suzuki and introduce new chrome grille and door handles like it’s a Cultus while the world is...

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Mazda RX-Vision Concept May Be The Next RX-7

There are very few cars built in the modern day that have timeless designs. Designs that never age and still look fresh in the clutter of aggressive looking futuristic cars. Those ever-green modern...

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Toyota Should Make Some Real Efforts To Make Corolla Altis Grande Standout

Here’s a dilemma. In my mind, I am no longer poor. In my mind, I now have 2,299,000/= Rupees. What a great coincidence, that is exactly how much is required to buy the 2015 Toyota Corolla Altis Grande....

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The First 2015 Toyota Land Cruiser ZX Facelift Arrives In Pakistan

Toyota is trying to shift around its SUVs in different segments (mostly upwards) to take a piece of the luxury SUV market by positioning the Land Cruiser Prado, where Land Cruiser used to be in...

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Punjab Taxi Scheme And Government Purchasing Could Easily Create An...

United States was recently looking for its next stealth bomber and there were only two companies that were fighting for the contract. Northrop Grumman, and a Lockheed-Boeing consortium while Northrop...

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Duty On Local And Imported Cars Increased, While Automobile Policy Still...

Talking with a few up and coming global automakers in Pakistan, they told me that all their decisions and plans for Pakistan solely rely on what the Auto Industry Development Program (AIDP), that is...

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Indus Motors Increases Car Prices

We all saw it coming as a result of the recent 1 percent duty that is applied at CKD, and IOR Value, raw materials, Tyres, steel sheets, and other relevant raw materials utilized in the assembling of...

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Car Calls Up Police After Woman Does A Hit And Run

A lot of people don’t understand this but enthusiasts and non-enthusiast form relationships with their cars. So how would you feel if your car starts calling up on you when you’re involved in some...

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2016 Honda BR-V: Will Honda Pakistan Again Miss The Opportunity Like It Did...

The automobile sales in the future will most likely be dominated by crossover vehicles. One of the two biggest markets in the world, namely China and the US, both owe their automobile sales growth to...

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First Drive: 2015 Toyota Land Cruiser ZX Has Plush Carpets For Your Feet!

The imported car dealers will never let you in one of these 225 million rupees (starting from) worth of luxury cocoons, let alone drive one. But we turned out lucky as one allowed us to experience the...

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Alamgir Khan, The Campaigner Behind The FixIt Campaign Has A Case Registered...

A criminal case has been registered against Alamgir Khan, the person behind the #FixIt campaign in Karachi where he began drawing Sindh CM’s portrait around open gutters and roadside garbage dumps. The...

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2017 Mercedes E-Class Revealed At Detroit Auto Show

We’ve already established that all the models posted below the S-Class will be the direct representation of the S-Class itself. They will all be Baby S-Class, and the S-Class will be Papa S-Class. Not...

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Suzuki Cultus Gets A Limited Edition For A Cool 55,000 Rupees Extra!

You know what I’ve been wanting? No not the upcoming Porsche 911 GT3 R, no, I’ve been wanting a Limited Edition Cultus for an extra 55,000 rupees just as the car hits the showroom floor and it just did...

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NOWPDP Launches Challenge To Design A Low-Cost Cycle For Disabled People in...

It is quite tough for an entirely functional human being to live here in Pakistan so imagine the plight of those disabled. But some individuals step forward to change things. NOWPDP is composed of such...

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Honda 50 Motorcyle Turned Into A Racing Motorcycle

Honda has sold 75 million units globally of its iconic ’50’, also known as ‘Super Cub‘ motorcycle. In comparison, the world’s most sold is the Toyota Corolla at 40 million units globally. While the...

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Attention Karachi Traffic Police: You Block Roads From The Point Where A...

Karachi is a gigantic mess. Overflowing gutters and water mains, traffic jams becoming routine, trash everywhere you look, the government is in total shambles, but we still see them here and there in...

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Lamborghini Catches Fire, And Why I Avoid Giving Cars To Valets In Pakistan

I try best to avoid valets wherever I go. Not that I own a flash car but there are multiple reasons for me, especially in Pakistan where its owners’ risk, little to no driver training, and no...

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2016 Suzuki Baleno Becomes A Huge Success In India With 70,000 Orders And A...

It is a common notion in Pakistan that Pak Suzuki is afraid to introduce new vehicles because they might fail. At one time, far into the past, we would’ve agreed however today, with all the imported...

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