Searching for a photo for the comic strip, I saw a folder named “Dubai” in my WD Passport. Casually browsing through brought me nostalgia of my days in Dubai and an idea for a blog post. 
I’m not sure if it’s my passion for cars or my photographic passion (or both?), I like taking photos sitting inside the car.
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Car’s Back
Here’s some assorted photos of car taken from behind.
BMW 745i
Toyota Corolla
Lexus
Dubai Taxi’s Toyota Camry
Land Rover Sport HSE
Toyota Hiace
Chevrolet Optra
Porsche Cayenne
Honda Civic and Toyota Landcruiser
It’s no fun seeing an idle Landcruiser
You must be tired of gazing backs, catch the front of Ford Explorer
More than Cars
Once in a while it’s fun to watch expensive cars being towed. 
BMW X3
BMW Alpina B6
Dubai Police’s GMC Recovery Vehicle
Jostling for Space… but be careful.
A Chariot outside Dubai World Trade Center
An Emirates Aircraft taking off…
Not only Bicycles, Chariots, Cars, Aircrafts… Discussing a possible space journey with Virgin Galactic?
I’m not done yet. Roads can be used for Prayers too.
While You’re Driving
You might be driving a Hummer but it’s no fun driving without observing the roads.
Brand new cars stacked up!
Traffic is unbearably high, listening to FM is one of the major activities.
Speeding carefully… radar cameras are in tunnels too.
Time to say goodbye. Sunset over Al Mamzar Beach.
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11 comments ↓
Well,dubai people are very rich and gas is pretty cheap so they can afford such luxuries.
As seen from the number plates,dubai people aren’t crazy about special nos. as far as Indians are.I Still remember some chap from Punjab bought a special no/ for about 15 lac rupees :o(I forgot whether it was car no. or mobile no.)
Cool pictures ashwin. I wish you could have got a picture of Dubai 1
@ravi, you are so wrong. Arabs here are crazy for number plates. The costlies number plates being sold in UAE. Recently the number plate 1, I think abudhabi was sold for 25 million AED. Also, recent number plate auction raised around 10 million AED where one number plate i think E65, was sold for 3.5 million AED .
Dubai is crazy about numbers …
BTW , ashwin, I wish if you can use any other image hosting site other than flickr. You know that in UAE not everyone uses a firefox with extension , or a hotspot shield
no chicks around cars
Ravi -
You are right in a way. Here you can’t “buy” a number plate like here in India. But like Kanak says there was an auction by the Abu Dhabi govt and we say a craze to snap up fancy number plates.
Kanak -
What is Dubai 1?
Ahhh…. I completely forgot the Flickr ban, otherwise wouldn’t have hosted there.
rahul -
Hey dubai 1 .. Sheikh Muhammad’s Car.. oops .. Landcrusier I think .. not sure though .but sure of the number.
Greats snaps Ashwin, beautiful collection. I am also passionate for cars, my picks are BMW X3 and Porsche.
Kanak -
I’ve been to Jumeirah many times and it’s there where many Sheikhs live (but Mirdiff is catching up). I’ve seen 2 and 3 digit cars of Landcruiser, Land Rover, Patrol, Armada, etc.. Khalifa is having Abu Dhabi 1 (Landcruiser).
Nirmal -
By the way, what car do you have now?
Thanks.
Ashwin,
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I own a Chevy Spark now. (small car beauty…
He he.. car mania.. good one.
My badluck i cant see the pic
dear i am in sharjah working in TME company as international purchse co ordinator
today by google i come to know abt ur site wile seraching for laptop prices in dubaai
and i stuck to ur site from last 2.5 hrs
its just amazing blog
but please dont post images on flickr cos its blocked
whenever i tried to open its just showing that crappy msg from etisalat
thanks
ashwin u r just doing wonderfull job
if u r in dubai my no is 50-5634526
feel free to give me call anytime it will be my please to talk with u
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