Chevrolet to Build New Trailblazer SUV from 2012 Colorado, will Debut in Dubai

The product news just keeps dropping in from General Motors' Chevrolet division this week.

After the announcements on the 2013 Colorado pickup truck, the Camaro ZL1 Convertible, the EN-V project and the Spark EV, Chevrolet revealed today that it will also introduce the all-new, 2013 TrailBlazer midsize SUV at the upcoming Dubai International Motor Show on November 10.

The General published a darkened-out teaser photograph along with a short statement saying that the 2013 Trailblazer will be based on a "new global midsize platform developed by GM do Brasil" and that sales will begin in Thailand starting in early 2012.

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Payback Time: Middle East Honda Accord Drifter Crashes, Police Steps in…

Who needs to sit and watch any of the five installments of the Fast and Furious franchise when you can enjoy all the excitement in a minute-or so-long Youtube clip?

While there's nothing new about videos showing Middle-Eastern drivers drifting or trying to drift Japanese sedans with or without shooting their guns, nor about some of them crashing their cars, what is new about the clip you're about to watch after the break is that the police got involved.

And we're not talking about a single police car but a swarm of cops who appear to be chasing the driver and/or the passengers of the white Honda Accord sedan that had previously smacked a rock on the side of the road while drifting.

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SCOOP: 2012 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG V8 and G65 AMG V12 Caught Undisguised in Dubai

While spy shooters are searching for camouflaged prototypes of the facelifted 2012 Mercedes-Benz G-Class on the roads of Germany, the team over at "3rabacars" was fortunate enough to discover an entire garage of barely disguised examples of the upcoming AMG variants in a garage in Dubai.

From what we understand, 3rabacars took pictures of both the V8-powered G63 (or G55) AMG and the V12-powered G65 AMG. According to the poster, the G63 AMG's speedometer went up to 280km/h (174mph) while the G65 AMG's stopped at 320km/h (199mph).

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Video: Ferrari California Takes up Snow Drifting in St. Moritz

Ferrari is the last brand one would associate with anything related to driving in the snow, yet Maranello is constantly touting how fun its cars are in sub-zero temperatures and frosty conditions.

Following the recent presentation of the all-wheel drive FF shooting brake in the Italian Dolomites and the announcement of its “Pilota on Ice” U.S. driving program in Aspen, Colorado, Ferrari has released a video of the rear-wheel drive only California dancing on the snow during an event organized in St Moritz, Switzerland.

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Video: A Quick Look at the World of MotorSports in the Middle East

There's no doubt that the web and readers alike tend to be more interested in troublemakers and the darker or if you prefer, the more bizarre side of things in general. But as we all know, there are always two sides of a coin and the same goes for gearheads in all four corners of the world, be they in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or in this case, the Middle East.

Carscoop reader Mousub S. wanted to remind us that the Middle East is not only about blinged-up supercars and gun-carrying Honda Accord drifters, which understandably gather a lot of attention, but also about the high-revving world of Motorsports with a video.

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Saudi King Reverses Court's Decision to Lash a Woman for Driving her Car

In a surprising -but certainly welcome- turn of events, Saudi King Abdullah has overturned the sentencing of a young woman to 10 whiplashes for driving her car. The news came from Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel's twitter account.

For those of you wondering, Princess Ameerah is a member of the Saudi royal family through her husband, HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal who is King Abdullah's nephew.

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