It must be great to be in the royal family of a country of which oil consists of 90% of its exports. The Saudi Arabian royal family purchased 80 units of the new Kahn Cosworth Sport 300 SUV based on the Range Rover Sport just because they wanted the cars before anyone else. I suppose the global recession is non-existant in countries of which economies are driven by petroleum exports.
The Kahn Cosworth Sport 300 is a joint venture between Cosworth and Kahn Design, headed by CEO Afzal Kahn. The Sport 300 carries a £20,000 premium over the Range Rover Sport’s regular price tag of £55,000, and for the 20k pounds you get an additional 32 horsepower from the car’s turbodiesel V8 engine, resulting in a total of 300 horses. The styling is by Kahn design, which includes flared wheel arches and 22 inch alloy wheels.
Look after the jump for a couple of more shots of the new Saudi fleet.
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just like that 20k premium?
i think i still prefer the normal range rover sport. nicer looking without that portruding bumper.
these saudi arabia people are damn filthy rich ah.
i also know they got a Silver Audi A4 or A8, not paint silver, really all made out of silver! KILAT KILAT!
in mecca, every year, people stuck in traffic jam for about 8 hour while doing our mina visit(during haj), yet this people still dont want to spend money for public transport there…. rich people minded…
as usual, god give them wealth, but they weigh it as light as feather.
I still prefer Vogue…
not nice at all…hideous looking bumpers..
actually it looks late 80s/early 90s. boxy.
ugly car!
when u are damn rich, it is not the look that you’ll go for.. its all about the pride.. owning the thing that other cant afford.. thats what you’ll go for.. Be the 1st, above others.. Even thought that it is ugly.. hahahaah…
These people does not know what else to do with their money, therefore they spend like there is no tomorrow. They should have given the money to the poor African country like Sudan rather than buying something as ugly as this… and they are not buying just one, but 80 units…. What a waste!!!
Buruk perangai tok arab ni. I guess this is what they consider as refined, desert style. Cars are so dang cheap in arab states, even Bangla selling carpets drive new Camry. My friend actually wanted to buy, but malu because too cheap. Had to buy Chevrolet TrailBlazer instead to save face. Dream come true if we can buy cars at arab prices. One dinar = RM1…
Dear mukhri88,
Saudi uses Riyal
But you are correct 1 Riyal approximately = RM 1.
But entry level Civil Engineer got 6k over there
Hmmmm… What car I want?…
I had always admire Skylines.
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HOPE THE KING WILL GET A NEW BUMPER.
IN LIPIS THE RICHEST MAN IS DATO LEOW…
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CAMRYS AND ACCRORDS IS JUST FOR USE GOING TO PASAR MALAM
Hi all,
LOL. A car enthusiast website turned into a political arena. Good work Paul.Tan. I know its not your fault. Just that we have lots of people coming in and out from your cool website. Anyways, I don’t know if you guys have been to middle east, its very common for the drivers over there to install big bumpers (some with leather finishing too, phew). It’s just they like to park ‘cincai’ along the roadside, I mean bumper-to-bumper touching. So, they need the big bumper when squeezing in for side parking. Tough drivers I must say. Need a lot of patience driving at those Arab roads. Here in Malaysia you scratch a car, you’ll end up paying the damages triple-fold!
The drivers over there (yes, the Pak Arabs) drive their BMW 7th Series, Mercedes SLK ‘macam’ drive our Proton and Perodua over here. Modify, racing, ‘beli sayur’, ‘lepak kedai kopi’ and etc. Don’t be surprise teenagers over there ‘paling miskin pun’ minimum drive a Toyota, Honda and etc. Bear in mind, ‘Cemburu itu dibolehkan’ (can promote ‘kiasu-kiasi’ culture to be better and better) ‘yang tak boleh adalah sifat dengki’ (the devil’s essence). I believe if our import cars are cheaper, everybody would end up buying these expensive cars as well.
Public transport? They don’t need to worry about public transportation cause cars are so cheap over there. Better salary and the list goes on. Only that ‘perlu tahan’ with the Arab work culture over there. Very tough especially in Oil and Gas but they reward you properly. Not like here in Malaysia, our Private Sector is so damn ‘lokek kedekut nak mampus’. When ask for slightly better pay and better bonus, my ‘taukey’ boss would say economy not doing well lah, government not good lah, still he can upgrade his fleet of BMW and Mercedes every year. No wonder Malaysia is losing out more of its professional workers (doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountant and etc) to Middle East, Singapore, UK and etc. Not that Malaysians working abroad are not patriotic; its because all those typical ‘kedekut’ Private Sector and ‘lintah darat’ Government. I rest my case.
Just my 2 Ringgit and 30 cents.
dr_carz said,
October 29, 2008 @ 9:57 am
CAMRYS AND ACCRORDS IS JUST FOR USE GOING TO PASAR MALAM
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wonder what will happen if tata-nano is there… kete-pakai-buang??? buy morning-throw in the evening…
fairsyah said,
October 29, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
dr_carz said,
October 29, 2008 @ 9:57 am
CAMRYS AND ACCORDS IS JUST FOR THE USE GOING TO PASAR MALAM
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wonder what will happen if tata-nano is there… kete-pakai-buang??? buy morning-throw in the evening…
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then how about perodua cars like the kancil, kelisa, kenari, myvi, viva and so on ???? or hw about proton….hahaha….
Saudi Arabian’s are bloody f***in’ rich !!!!!!! Just take Dubai as an example !!!! Staying in a cheapest lousy hotel for one night may cost you US $5000 over !!!!…. u ppl should find more videos bout saudi arabians in youtube !!!! I saw most of it including the amount of oil barrels produced per day !!!!!!
politics aside…
google-a-look at the afzal kahn. from custom rims to custom cars… rags-to-riches story.
wahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha that’s a sorry excuse for spending money. i think they just don’t know what other car to buy! LOL.
Xx- Ferrari -xX said,
October 29, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
fairsyah said,
October 29, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
dr_carz said,
October 29, 2008 @ 9:57 am
CAMRYS AND ACCORDS IS JUST FOR THE USE GOING TO PASAR MALAM
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wonder what will happen if tata-nano is there… kete-pakai-buang??? buy morning-throw in the evening…
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then how about perodua cars like the kancil, kelisa, kenari, myvi, viva and so on ???? or hw about proton….hahaha….
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Proper(Protong+Perodoa) uses to tarik pow in the padi farm..enuf ‘Kerbau’ power..
I can see that, in not too distant future when petroleum is only used by industries and cars use clean, green and sustainable energy, there will be less dependencies on petroleum and the Arabs will go back to their tribal ways.
Actually the Hummers in the movie Be Cool look much much better and more bling bling
ahhh… kenot grind mat rempit yet like them H2 hummers on 22″ blings…
Talking about exaggeration – i just drive my Accord from my living room to the kitchen!!!
Probably the rich Arabs do that in real life.
jared323f said,
October 29, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
I can see that, in not too distant future when petroleum is only used by industries and cars use clean, green and sustainable energy, there will be less dependencies on petroleum and the Arabs will go back to their tribal ways.
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Don’t forget that Malaysia will too.
They don’t, but they do have solid gold crappers. Also one-off made to order Ferrari and other makes, a desert island where they trash the most expensive SUVs. So 80 custom Range Rovers at one go now seem common in Saudi Arabia.
Range Rover Sport is already a superb looking machine and got awesome power under the hood without any bodykits or modification….
and frankly, the Hamann version is much more better than this…..
Mmm.. dunno about everyone else but this car look fine to me. It’s a Range Rover, it supposed to be boxy. But i think 80 of this kind is a bit over the edge. Aihh.. no wonder they spent like this. Oil producing country like that. Take Kuwait for instance. Less citizen but the money produce by their oil production can support 10 or 100 times (or maybe more) their citizen’s expenses and this result in what? 1 KWD(Kuwait Dinar) = RM11 – RM13!!! But there a reason for all this. God give they all the money to spent but take away their brain. That’s why they keep bombing at each other.. Aihh.. What a waste..
search arab drift in youtube…they use camry & accord for drifting lah…salut2
WXX8XX said,
October 29, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
Mmm.. dunno about everyone else but this car look fine to me. It’s a Range Rover, it supposed to be boxy. But i think 80 of this kind is a bit over the edge. Aihh.. no wonder they spent like this. Oil producing country like that. Take Kuwait for instance. Less citizen but the money produce by their oil production can support 10 or 100 times (or maybe more) their citizen’s expenses and this result in what? 1 KWD(Kuwait Dinar) = RM11 – RM13!!! But there a reason for all this. God give they all the money to spent but take away their brain. That’s why they keep bombing at each other.. Aihh.. What a waste..
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yeah…. true…. they are flooded with money but the citizen hav no brain !!!! Bomb there and here…. haha !!!!!!!!!!
I think it looks abit ugly. Too much transformer in the design
the overfinch range rovers are better
this car is not about power only..
it’s about comfort.
and yes.. about ‘status of a rich people’ tooo..
support cosworth , don support da wat khan company
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