The Ford Mustang did not create the Gulf’s appetite for powerful American cars on its own, but it gave that appetite a shape, a sound and an identity. For generations of drivers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman, the
On UAE roads, the most valuable part of a car is not always beneath the bonnet. A vehicle worth a few hundred thousand dirhams can carry a registration number valued in the millions, while the rarest plates have sold for more than many
Dubai Autodrome did not create the UAE’s interest in speed, but it gave that interest a permanent home. When the circuit opened in 2004, the country already had decades of motorsport administration, desert rallying and occasional headline events. What was missing was a