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    Official: Bugatti showcases the Bumblebee of Veyrons in Qatar
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    With a gazillion color options for every little part of the Bugatti Veyron, there's no reason why any two examples should be alike. (Except for maybe an inverse correlation between wealth and imagination.) So it would stand to reason that every Bugatti should be considered a special edition of ...

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    Video: When your country floats on oil, your police drive only Porsches
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    Qatar's police force has a sizable fleet of Porsche Panamera and Cayenne patrol vehicles at its disposal. How is this? Well, Qatar has lots of oil, for starters, so there's that income. The emirate also holds a 17 percent stake of preferential shares in the Volkswagen Group. So, it's not ...

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    BMW 1M Coupe MotoGP safety car lit up and ready to roll
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    The 2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe is serving duty as one of the safety cars for the 2011 MotoGP Championship, which kicks off this weekend at the Grand Prix of Qatar. The 1M Coupe that will be handling safety car duties has been smartened up a little from stock, starting with an Akrapovic sport ...

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    Volkswagen hits Qatar with a pair of special Touaregs
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    Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Qatar (above) and Touareg Gold Edition (below right) Click either image for high-res image gallery
    After three consecutive wins in the famously brutal Dakar Rally, Volkswagen is no stranger to cresting dunes and speeding across desert terrain. And now the German ...

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    Pagani says goodbye to the Zonda yet again with one-off Uno edition
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    Pagani Zonda Uno – Click above for image gallery
    Another day, another special Zonda. The Pagani supercar is set to speed off into the sunset soon and be replaced by a new model. But before it does, the Modenese exotic automaker has been keeping (themselves and us) busy with special ...

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    Stoner crashes, Rossi wins: MotoGP 2010 is officially out of the chutes
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    Yes, we can officially get, not just a little, but very excited by the first taste of Grand Prix action from the opening round of MotoGP, which happened over the weekend at Losail Raceway in Doha, Qatar. The Doctor, Valentino Rossi, continues to prove that his winning ways are no mere fluke, as ...

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    Rossi and Stoner agree on one thing: Champs call for earlier start in Qatar
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    Few duos in history have offered up more raw two-wheeled entertainment than that of Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi. Up to this point we are only sure that they ever agreed on one topic, that is, who should pass the checkered flag first. Each man would resoundingly agree that they, ...

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    BREAKING: Porsche offices raided on suspicion of stock manipulation
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    The soap opera surrounding Volkswagen AG and Porsche has just taken a turn for the legal, as Bloomberg reports that the company's German offices have been raided by prosecutors who are investigating whether the automaker has violated security laws.The German prosecutor's office seized documents ...

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    Qatar buys 10 percent of Porsche, options for 20 percent of VW
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    Qatar PM Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani and Dr. Wolfgang Porsche
    The era of the Porsche and Piech families controlling the German sports car maker looks like it will soon be drawing to a close of sorts. Following quickly after yesterday's approval by the Volkswagen supervisory board of a merger ...

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    Did you think the VW-Porsche deal was done? Nein.
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    When Volkswagen and Porsche sat down at dinner to discuss which one was going to eat the other one, they forgot to invite the German tax man. After VW came to terms with Porsche to take a 49.9% stake in the Stuttgart sports car maker for €8 billion (around $11.4 billion U.S.), the parties ...

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