If you think Dubai is a great location for carspotting, I totally agree with you. The amount of supercars in Dubai is just amazing, where else will you see several Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bentleys and a few Rolls-Royce in the quarter you're on your way to work, on an almost daily basis? And once the weekend is approaching you can say with a 99% guarantee that you will find 10-20 supercars lined up at one of the malls in Dubai.
So what else can you do to top this normal day-to-day happening here? Exactly, a car show. So it happened on the weekend from 28.02.13 – 02.03.13 in Dubai Festival City, the Auto Trader Show celebrating the 500th magazine. How do you celebrate this, yes, by gathering some of the most striking rides you can buy for money.
Don’t ask me how many cars where there, but I reckon 200 supercars from various manufacturers and tuners. Koenigsegg, Bugatti, McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Jaguar just to name a few. In addition Hamann, FAB Design, Mansory and some other tuners showed off their creations. The best thing about this show, believe it or not, the entrance was free and the entire show was arranged on three days to really give everyone the chance to check it out. I have not heard of any car show with cars like the ones exhibited/shown here where you would not have to pay some kind of entrance fee. Great!
I visited the event on Thursday and again on Friday morning as the setting sun on Thursday evening didn’t allow me to take some good pictures or videos. I photographed and recorded for 4 hours straight on Friday morning and with the temperatures reaching 38 degrees Celcius in the shade I gave up exhausted but happy. When I arrived on the first evening I didn’t know what to look at first, the Aston Martin One-77, the Ferrari F40, the Koenigsegg CCXR or one of the other super cars around. Regardless where you looked, everywhere cars worth hundreds of thousand Euros were standing around, one better than the other.
Which one would I pick will some ask? Honestly, I don’t know. The Ferrari F40 is such a great car, built in the 80's and still looks great amongst today’s supercars! The One-77, limited to 77 pieces worldwide, the CCXR which can get you above 400 km/h, the awesome F12berlinetta in bright yellow or maybe one of the tuned ones? Hamann, FAB Design or Mansory? How can anyone decide when being asked a question like this? When I was passing through the rows of supercars I heard others saying “heaven on earth” or “this is porn”! Sounds right to me.
Summarizing this event I would say it was really great, but at the same time a bit weird. Why? Well, let me explain. If you do go spotting you never know what you can expect, it’s kind of exiting and a bit like a game. You wait until you find something worth taking pictures of (being spoiled from all those supercars it needs to be something special though) and then you try to make a great video and some nice shots. In an event like this, it is somehow too easy, I would even say so much to look at that you can’t decide where to start looking. Does this make sense? It’s difficult to explain but I think some of you might understand what I mean.
Well, either way, I was very happy but slightly disappointed too, because I was really hoping to find the Pagani Huayra which didn’t show up. I guess these are “problems” that only spotters in locations like Monaco, London, Paris, L.A. or Dubai have.
Now, enough talking, enjoy the pictures and the video. I hope you will like them.
