The reason why pedestrians in the United Arab Emirates did not form as a class is banal and simple - you cannot survive here without a car. Even now, when two branches of the Dubai Metro are put into operation and when passenger buses are increasingly found on the roads, people are not ready to refuse a personal car. And the point here is not so much a habit as a climatic factor. When in Tyumen it’s minus 45 on the street, you can put on your third woolen socks, and a fourth sweater under the sheepskin coat and run from the house to the bus stop. But what to do when outdoors plus 45? Here, at least get dressed, even undress, but it is physically impossible to stay longer than five minutes outside the air-conditioned room!
So millions of Emirate car owners harness their iron horses every day, since there is someone to harness - the people in the United Arab Emirates for the most part are not poor and do not save on their faithful companions. According to the concentration of four-wheeled representatives of the symbols of luxury, the Emirate's streets will give odds to anyone, Moscow and Monaco combined - Ferrari and Bugatti, Rolls-Royces and Maserati, Lamborghini and Bentley, Mercedes and Maclaren, all models and all colors of the rainbow. The owners of Lexus and Infinity in this wonderful country are, of course, not considered low-income, but they are not considered to be particularly wealthy here either.
Dubai's law enforcement also does not lag behind ordinary mortals, trying, so to speak, to be closer to the people. Amid the general prosperity, they do not want to be white crows at all, and the status of law enforcers in one of the richest, but at the same time the safest city in the world, gives them the right to luxury. Thanks to our long-standing friendship with the chief of the tourist department of the Dubai Police, connoisseurs of beauty will find exclusive material about this world-famous fleet in the pages of our magazine.
If you are talking about iron horses and the police, how not to remember the most important part of any car. Yes, you are right - these are not wheels and not even an engine! In the United Arab Emirates, there is something that sometimes costs several times more than the car itself - this is its state registration number! Do you remember how much back in 2007, the now world-famous Talal Khuri paid for a Dubai car number with a single number 7 on it? Three million US dollars! But already in 2008, a businessman from Abu Dhabi, Said Abdel Jafar Khoury, paid about ten million euros for a registration number consisting of a single digit - 1. That's what the difference between Dubai and the capital of Abu Dhabi means! By the way, the number with the number 7 in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, which is only 100 kilometers from Dubai, can be bought for some miserable 200 thousand US dollars. About the same price in the United Arab Emirates is the brand new five-liter Mercedes-Benz S-Class in today's 222nd body. And you still don't believe in the magic of numbers?
On this cheerful note, I hasten to take my leave and wish you a pleasant time flipping through the pages of the magazine that you hold in your hands - it is as rich as never before with materials from the crazy world of luxury and human vanity. See you soon!
Sergey Tokarev
