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  1. 3 hours ago, Barry said:

    I also recommend maps.me on App Store. I had no data on my phone and spent 2 months walking from the east side of Germany to France last summer with this as a map. One bit of advice I will give you, before you go somewhere, zoom in on the area you are travelling to when you are still at home with wifi and it will download the map so you can use it offline. 

    This zoom in and caching maps works with google maps too, so why we switch....? Offline means like sygic app.

  2. Interesting talk, I briefly played CSR on iPhone that came with awesome graphics and upgrade candy that force users to keep playing and win races to afford more mods. I was literally addicted like a kid for over a first month.

  3. Well all this rumors and incidents sounds like a marketing stunt for promoting the pokemon go by nintendo who already exceeded Sony in market value at the launch. Really Sony in market value. For 20 Billion jump I wouldn't mind creating 2000 fake stories in world that spreads like wild fire. And people are crazy when it comes on viral effect these days anyways.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/19/nintendo-market-value-doubles-on-pokemon-go-mania

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-19/nintendo-market-value-passes-sony-on-pokemon-go-frenzy-chart

    http://www.bloomberg.com/api/embed/iframe?id=GmGLUc2SRdeIcsB0E0RZc

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  4. Hi teajay, I respect your opinion can you please state the reason why all US specs are cheaper by 30% - 50% in UAE market?

    I have never owned a US specs due to the horror story I heard and seen one of my friend who got Mustang few years back and he only used to drive in winter and not summer as car use to heat up and AC cooling was not sufficient for Dubai heat. May be he experience this ups and downs cycle as he kept car for 3 years and then sold for 50% of the purchase price as there were no taker of US specs Mustang in the market as there were several US Mustang was standing idle. If you search live inventory of any online car website here in UAE you will find 1:10 ratio of 1 GCC mustang vs 10 US specs. Please explain why people demand GCC more even though if its 30% - 50% more expensive?

  5. Treks, I never knew car computer connection can be so complicated and so "stupid" at the same time. What is the point in having a fault code mechanism that doesn't tell what exactly is at fault? At most it need to have some fail-safe mode that if some one critical CAN / ECU / BUS / TRUCK failed then it should stop the car and ask owner to change that one specific component than leaving this ambiguous mess with almost no guarantee. Even more surprising is, that this is coming from Audi on which I have high respect of using most advanced technology to use and inform the car owner all the time.

    I have seen the fail-safe mode first time in 1999 in Kenwood home theater system and it trigger automatically to save the whole system and in end that one circuit was replaced in less than 50 USD to fix that system. From 1999 - 2016 and still Car technology cannot implement such measure in automotive computers in 17 years....? Why....?

  6. Well not stronger but more capable in case of 4x4 and proper off-road SUV. Bigger tire gives better flotation for sand driving and also lift the car body by few cms which makes them less prone to stuck and dig-in easily.

    In cars (sedan), people fitting bigger tires I think it's only for looks. May be someone here will add more valid reason for this as well.

    Car pulling power depends on engine and any additional engine modification will make it stronger or capable and not just tire upgrade. Actually it backfires more on power if you install bigger tire, car will be less capable if no engine modification is done.

  7. These cameras will change the way we drive in Dubai man, they record almost everything inside the car cabin.

    Discussions are going on to record the distracted driver and issue a ticket for that:

    • Doing make-up while driving
    • Eating sandwich while driving
    • Adjusting Ghutra (head-gear)
    • Taking on phone or texting (even lol)
    • Watching movie while driving
    • Rubber neck on accident spots
    • Queue jumpers
    • Hard shoulder riders
    • Sleepy or Drowsy driver showing lack of concentration.
  8. Such an amazing replica of real car model in real car world I have never seen before. Toy cars, RC cars copy design showing the enthusiasm is totally acceptable, but this below F$%$^$ copycat of Range Rover Evoque is totally bizarre. I heard Jaguar Land Rover is preparing to file a lawsuit against this chinese car manufacturer to make and call replica: LandWind X7.

    What happen to people creativity now? Why can't they invest in designing something new?

    Evoque replica.jpgRR evoque.JPG

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  9. In simple words, avoid Turbo cars and I am really surprise that why Audi still hung up with turbo engines, when whole world switched to supercharge.

    In Turbo engine, all depends on how much PSI pressure turbo is adding on the engine to produce additional hp from dinky 2.0 poor engine. In ideal world 0.75 bar pressure is just barely enough to get extra hp simultaneously keeping happy engine lifespan. Anything more than this would get you immediate more hp, but slash couple of years from engine lifespan.

    @hanif class action is thing of US, here in UAE there is no class action I have ever heard as law doesn't permit of class action. At least that was the case in one of the property developer who failed to deliver on time and all buyer wants to use class action and all legal lawyer told this to us back in 2012. Check if now anything have changed or not.

    Only way to force car dealer here is request nicely, and then force them on emails and written communication and not on verbal word of confidence. If still not listening, write to Audi Germany and this might help you but no guarantee and sorry for your loss.

  10. Derik, if transportation is the only thing you look at daily drive then you are better off with the Taxi's. Not only for the slight cost saving, but big time for hassle saving.

    However, if you live on taxi's only then you should have factored the weekend as in two off days sometimes we drive and cherish our cars more than 5 days of travel, km's and utilization for long road trips, family outings, mall hopping and what not.

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