MUSCAT: Hyundai Motor Company has shown continuous growth of global brand value to secure its place within top 40 global companies for five consecutive years. Hyundai has shown a 4.6 per cent increase in global brand value, to rank 36th on Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2019 Rankings and sixth among automakers on the list.
According to Interbrand, the company’s brand value has risen 4.6 per cent from 2018 ($13.5 billion), reaching $14.1 billion.
Since entering the ranks of the top 100 companies in"...

2019 marks the ‘UAE Year of Tolerance’ and this begs the question of how tolerant are we to each other on UAE’s roads? Obviously, a caring attitude is the foundation of a good road safety culture and one dimension of it is how tolerant motorists are to each other. This ‘first-ever’ behavior research study tries to shed light on motorists’ tolerance when it comes to true mistakes of others, deliberate bullying behavior, and what makes us fall into road rage.

The"...

The BMW X7 is much, much more than just another Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV).

Launched earlier this year to huge industry fanfare and much acclaim from motoring enthusiasts and BMW aficionados alike, the BMW X7 has enjoyed a gilded existence. In less than a year, the BMW X7 has come to define the very DNA of how an SAV should perform, how it should look and what it can achieve. The BMW X7 is not only the top model of the X-range, it has emerged"...

The GUtech Shell Eco-marathon car is on display at the Science Festival under way at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Muscat this week.
The GUtech team ‘Megalodon’ participated in the annual Shell Eco-marathon Asia competition ‘Make the Future’ that was held at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia in May this year.
“Our team Megalodon made its debut as the first student team from the Arabian Peninsula participating in the Shell-Eco-Marathon Asia Prototype Category with"...

The results of the 8th cycle of the unique and long-running ‘UAE Road Safety Monitor’ study once again underline the authorities’ efforts to further improve the country’s road infrastructure and this directly contributes to all-time-high values for driving enjoyment and a slight decrease in commute times. However, the study once again points out the (mis)behavior of motorists, stating a slight increase in the perception of dangerous driving overall, but thankfully still on a relatively low level over"...

Shanghai: Before we lay our hands on our prized cars, they undergo rigorous overhaul before becoming roadworthy. Shaping the design of a car is a marvel for an engineer. But very few people know that just like a potter uses raw clay and the finesse of his hands to design pitchers, car designers also use the same material to build a miniature model.

Clay is heated to a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius so that it becomes soft and can be easily moulded into a proper shape, said Steve Eum, Executive Design Director"...

Toshiba Digital & Consulting Corporation (hereinafter TDX) and Spain’s Gestamp, the global leader in metal components for automobiles, have announced that they are cooperating in a project to bring advanced monitoring and analysis to the welding of vehicle chassis parts. By drawing on know-how from the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), and utilizing data from camera images and acoustic emission (AE) sensors, the companies aim to secure very high precision detection of weld seam quality,"...

The award-winning Infiniti QX60 luxury crossover, consistently among Infiniti’s top two selling models, continues to be the most versatile three-row, seven-passenger vehicle. It offers a combination of family features with a welcoming, crafted design inside and out. Above all emphasising Infiniti’s originality and accent for safety of drivers, Infiniti QX60 offers the unique Back-up Collision Intervention System (BCI).

The Infiniti QX60"...