Bentley spells out pedigree with a capital “P”. One of the oldest automotive icon which brought unparalleled coachwork along with 5 wins at Le Mans, the latter being attributed by the famous “The Bentley Boys”. It was and still is the quintessential gentleman’s high performance vehicle.

This week, we flirt with an Italian Super model. The 4.7Litre V8 designed by none other than Ferrari produces 453bhp and has the entire Italian’s trademark soundtrack built into it. The 2013 Maserati GranTurismo Sport defines a modern day GT, with power and comfort to eat up one of man’s ultimate inventions, the asphalt laid highway.

The 2013 McLaren MP4-12C Spider mixes un-compromised  fun of a coupe while providing the infinite headroom of a roadster. The engineers at McLaren have solved the age-old debacle on the open rooftop by integrating a one-piece carbon fiber pod, which accounts for the structural rigidity of the car. This is an F1 car with real road comfort.

The Mercedes SLS was first showcased at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009 where the overwhelming response no doubt prompted Mercedes to release a production version the very next year. However the SLS traces its ancestry back to 1954 and the 300SL which was also the forerunner to Mercedes’ hugely popular SL or Super Light (‘Super Leicht’ in Deutsche speak) series of convertibles. The 300SL was the fastest car in its day, its dainty aerodynamic form, complementing the 3.0 litre engine with its 212 hp (which doesn’t sound earth shattering now) helping it achieve much acclaim.

Read the engine spec sheet and you would be quick to surmise that the Golf R and the Scirocco R must be the same wine and from the same bottler, but on different production lines. Having racked up a few hundred kilometers in just a few days, we can confirm that you would be far off the mark with that presumption.

It’s been almost 9 months since we have driven the 2012 Jaguar XFR, and the fond memories of endless power still dominate most of our frequent automotive talks. Then the strangest thing happened and we got a call from the good folks at Jaguar Land Rover Group MENA asking us to re-live those moments again on the 2013 model. I fell off my seat when I got the call and behold a dark grey metallic monster sneaked into our garage first thing on a Thursday morning.

Viewed in isolation, there’s no denying the Q5 looks like a shrunk down scale-version of its behemoth sized sibling, the Q7.  If you’ve never driven one, it would be easy to overlook the Audi Q5 as a watered down version of its big brother. So is that all there is to the Q5? Succumbing to the responsibility of laying truth bare, we got hold of the 2.0 TFSI as well as the 3.0 TFSI Exclusive versions for a shakedown.

The Ghost is an “entry-level” variant of the Rolls-Royce brand. The term “entry-level” is very relative when we are talking about shelling out at least AED 1.2 Million to avail the base 2013 Rolls-Royce Ghost. But this is the price one pays for exclusivity. Having a Rolls-Royce has always been a stamp on ones achievement and social status – after all kings, queens and maharajahs were and are still paraded in a Rolls-Royce.

‘More’ is a term which the rich and powerful can attain with ease. It is also a term which the 2012 Audi A8L W12 has in abundance. With 500HP and 625Nm of torque and 12 cylinders, this is the mightiest of the A8’s apart from the S8. It’s the perfect autobahn cruiser that would crush the miles and not ruffle the feathers of its occupants. It’s a vault as well, solid as an oak. Perhaps the calmest place to be when strutting around in the urban jungle of ours.

There is nothing standard about the Royal Enfield Bullet “Standard 500″ apart from the engine. Marco Moller has poured his heart out in dressing the magnificent lady with jewellery fit for a queen. Hind Ki Rani it truly is.