Shahzad Sheikh

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Meet David Gittens, the first black supercar designer - he created and built the Ikenga GT supercar over half a century ago - that's after being a staff photographer on Car & Driver in 1958!  But that's not all he has done - he's designed small aircraft and boats, created an art and peace project for children (OnlyHearts.org, designed sets for the United Nations, produced amazing pieces of art, run seminars on creativity, done inter-faith work, created a solar-heated community shower with UNICEF for a village in Guatemala, designed newspapers, run seminars at the Smithsonian, received recognition as an Aviation Pioneer, won trophies for work on rotorcrafts - and his autogiro is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - on and how could I forget to mention the 23-string DWIJ Veena guitar creations?! He talks about car and transport design, 'escaping' America and moving to London in the Swinging Sixties, being inspired by the pilot of

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - the multi-faceted Partha Srinivasan is not only a car and motorbike guy, but a PR and marketing professional as well as a tech-head, consultant and my personal digital media guru! It's thanks to his guidance and road map that I achieved 1000 subscribers on this very YouTube Channel in less than nine months.    Here he talks about his passions and professions but also what it takes to 'game' the online algorithms that rule our lives and dictate the content we see, what it takes to be a YouTuber and how Patreon allows your fans to help you survive whilst you build up to that millions subscribers on YouTube!   Find him at  https://www.parthans.com  https://saksintech.com  https://www.eastpodcast.in   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please sponsor my content through Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/shahzadsheikh

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Andy Entwistle is the CEO of The British Motor Show. With a massive reboot originally planned for this year, but now delayed to 2021 due to COVID-19, he promises to completely reinvent Motor Shows. And with over 20 years experience in the automotive industry, involved in all aspects from car sales, customer service, online retailing, media content, events and managing the London Motor Show, he is well equipped and well placed to do so.    But he's not entirely without issues, he has a habit, a compulsive and expensive one, somethine he still hasn't sought help for... he is a serial car buyer. Andy has owned over 150 cars including a Porsche 993 (911) widebody, a Clio Williams and a Nissan Elgrand. He opens up about it in this video!   Find him at  https://thebritishmotorshow.live/   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please spon

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Arafaat Ali Khan is a happy chappy - always has been as you'll see from the advert he appeared in when he was less than three years old - aww... adorable! Still is, let's be honest!    A full on car guy, he's had a string of awesome metal including JDM greats, American muscle and now the latest Toyota Supra.    But he's best known for co-founding Middle East Film & Comic Con, and has great memories and stories to tell including an absolute star-studded line-up of namedropping with pics alongside the likes of Michelle Rodriguez of Fast & Furious, William Shatner, Jason Momoa, John Rhys Davies and others!   Great guy, awesome chat - you can't miss this one!   Find him at  https://www.facebook.com/arafaat.alikhan  https://www.instagram.com/arafaat/   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please sponsor my c

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Syeed Ali (known to some as Sy) has degrees in marketing and law, is a filmaker and content creator, but is best known for having created a succession of London's leading car clubs, including founding The Drivers Union, one of the biggest supercar clubs.    We go through his car history - learning to drive in a Transit van, owning his first car, a Ford Capri, maxing out a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit and his passion for Ferrari, including owning two and starting two clubs for the brand   Find him at  https://www.thedriversunion.com  https://www.instagram.com/thedriversunion  https://www.twitter.com/thedriversunion   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please sponsor my content through Patreon:   https://www.patreon.com/shahzadsheikh   Please subscribe/follow  https://BrownCarGuy.com  https://www.instagr

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Catching up with Chandan Basu Mallik in Calcutta, India -  I knew him in Dubai where he headed up and/or wrote for several major automotive publications during his near two decades in the Middle East, including Autocar, F1 and Wheels. As a fellow British-Asian, he beat me to his first car review by a couple of years.    Some great stories and anecdotes here including experiences with Bob Lutz, Murray Walker and Horacio Pagani. And as a model car collector - with the oldest one in his collection aged at over 100 years, during lockdown, he's taken to crafting and building his own scale models from scratch.   Video https://youtu.be/ws_CDr2ajrw Find him at  https://www.facebook.com/chandan56mallik  https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandan-mallik-45113615/   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please consider supporting me Patreo

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Automotive media started to embrace digital platforms in the UK in the 90s, Jim Murray Jones has been at the centre of it since day one - AutoTrader, Exchange & Mart, SunMotors, Sunday Times Driving, Autocar, WhatCar?, PistonHeads and DriveTribe to name a few of the organisations he's worked at.    As he now moves into the arena of live motoring events, having joined the team behind the all-new British Motor Show to relaunch in 2021, he reveals the secrets and behind-the-scenes shenanigan of how the online automotive scene evolved in the UK, and how Motor Shows will morph into experiential activations in future.    Plus we talk about his own two modern classics - both featuring pop-up lights!    Watch video at https://youtu.be/PG4mxuURu0k Find him at  www.thebritishmotorshow.live  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmurrayjones/  https://drivetribe.com/u/V1FdPHw0ggnQTLYRGayoQf?iid=M0hA2LCgSxad7MtO_WNS-Q   Please subscribe to my c

How to beat the odds! Here's my story - going from the late great legendary motoring journalist, LJK Setright, to BrownCarGuy, via Car Magazine, Motoring Middle East, Parkers Price Guide website and more, including Saudi Gazette & Arab News becoming Saudi Arabia's first motoring journalist along the way. It's about highs and lows, achievements and disappointments, and the controversial undertones of prejudice and unfairness presenting a constant battle and struggle.    Would really love to hear you experiences, of these brands, of your own struggles and your thoughts on this video commentary in general! Comment below.    If you enjoyed this video please consider supporting me Patreon and you can also exclusively check out my parody Cannonball Run sequel:  https://www.patreon.com/shahzadsheikh   Please subscribe/follow  https://BrownCarGuy.com  https://www.instagram.com/shahzadsheikh/  https://www.facebook.com/BrownCarGuy/  https://twitter.com/Shahzad_Sheik

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Jorge Ferrari is one of the leading photographers in the UAE, but he's been based in the region as far back at 1986 in Kuwait, where he found himself caught up in the invasion by Iraq. Ever the professional, his pictures were the first seen by the world from inside occupied Kuwait as he was shooting for Reuters.    He talks about how his big escape plan failed miserably and he was caught and saved, in a manner, only by Maradona.    He later moved to the UAE and went on to shoot motoring and motorsports, extreme sports and other events, meeting some of the biggest names in the sporting world along the way. I met him in Dubai in 2006, we became good friends and I worked regularly with him on car shoots and events.   Plus he gives some great advice and tips on how to be a great photographer.    Find him at  https://www.instagram.com/jorgeferrari_photos/  https://www.facebook.com/FerrariPhotos/   Please subscribe to my channel

Abdulla Jaafari: from Illegal Street Racing in Amman to Shooting Supercars in Dubai (+Drifting)   'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Abdulla Jaafari has gone from covering illegal street racing / drifting on the strees of Amman, Jordan, to shooting the Pininfarina Battista in Dubai. Plus dune drag with the Mercedes AMG G-Class 4x4 Squared - a video that's got him nearly 8 million views on YouTube, and of course drifting... lots and lots of drifting. In fact I first met him at a drift event at Umm Al Quwain, where he was covering Jordan's drift king, Ahmad Daham.   Jaafari says he is "an automotive content creator - which means that I spend most of my time either behind a computer screen, a camera or a steering wheel, and the best part is that this is how I make a living!    "Worked as a journalist, a photographer, a presenter, a host, an accidental influencer (Oh god..), and thankfully, I was always surrounded by cars."   Find him at https://www.instagram.com/abdullajaafari   Please

Exclusive interview with car design legend Gordon Murray on his new supercar, the amazing T.50 from Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA), the true successor to the iconic McLaren F1.  Lamenting that no one had appeared to create a true follow-up to the F1, and to mark his own 50th year in the business, Murray set out to create not only modern-day F1, but what he claims will be the definitive and last great ‘analogue’ supercar.    The T.50, created under his own brand Gordon Murray Automotive is as extraordinary as its illustrious forebear with three abreast seating in a car that’s smaller than Porsche 911. It will have a totally unique and bespoke 3.9-litre V12 engine that revs to a record-breaking 12,100rpm and produces 660bhp. All this in a car weighing less than a ton at 986kg.    To keep it planted and to ensure standard-setting ride and handling dynamics, the T.50 will have the most advanced and effective aerodynamics ever seen on a road car thanks to a unique show-stopping huge 400mm

25072020 'Brown Car Guy & Buddies' - Tim Ansell talks about working on Syriana, Fast  & Furious 7 and Mission Impossible 4 during which he got to talk to Tom Cruise about AC Cobras.    A huge fan of Land Rovers, he started rallying in the Desert Challenge as a co-driver until a crash broke his back, so he took up photography, shooting cars, planes and motorsports, as well as motoring journalism. All the while successfully running businesses in the UAE and UK.   His latest adventure is yet to begin however - he plans to go overlanding and tour the world in a six-wheel Mercedes. We talk about why that's three years behind schedule, as well as reminisce about the fun times we've had on press events together.    Find him at  www.facebook.com/TimsTravelTruck  www.timstraveltruck.rocks  www.althika.com   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed

18072020 'Brown Car Guy & Buddies'   Muscle Car Mitch Perera, is known for V8 muscle cars, feasome off-road trucks, building cool custom cars, being a SEMA veteran and his love of the great outdoors. But after all these decades in the UAE, has the sun finally got to him as he talks Electric Vehicles?! Plus is he the only person on the planet that doesn't like the new Ford Bronco?    He talks about moving to the UAE from Sri Lanka, how his dad and grandfather inspired his love of cars and tinkering with all things mechanical, getting involved in tourism and car culture in the UAE and working with General Motors in the Middle East and the UK!   Find him at  https://www.instagram.com/bluedevil_in_dubai/  Email: desertrides@gmail.com   Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please consider supporting me Patreon and you can also exclusively check out my p

Watch at https://youtu.be/Zq1ZNyy_hcY From deck hand to car journalist to Rolls-Royce PR to a career with GM - but not a Lebanese rally driver, definitely NOT a Lebanese rally driver - meet Ronald Balit!  Ronald Balit hails from the land of the cedars, lebanon, fabled for its snowy mountain caps, gushing rivers and Mediterranean coast, its winding mountain roads, deep valleys,  and..... rally drivers, all 4 million of them!    Ronald never aspired to be a rally driver, though he did try out for navigator once, he was passionate about cars and the industry that made them and dreamt to work in the industry as soon as he figured out becoming an Astronaut or president was things 5 year olds said and being a pilot was akin to being a glorified bus driver.   He wanted to be a car engineer, but even that was not to be. And thanks to his skill in finding a way into whatever profession interested him he's been entrenched in the industry for the past 20 years, from the outside in, he is living

The Amazing Journey from selling old mags in India to PR for FCA in Dubai   In this episode I chat to my good buddy, Neville Darukhanawalla. A self-confessed automotive buff, Neville Jal Darukhanawalla has been associated with cars and bikes since his school days in the late 1980s. A two-time national champion, racing scooters in his native India, he has raced in different forms of motorcycle sport – road racing, motocross, rallies, flat track, trials and what have you. A massive fan of Formula One and MotoGP – in fact, of all forms on motor racing, he believes that racing improves the breed.   He was the team leader of a marathon expedition crossing the inhospitable Sahara Desert in 1990 – on a 100cc scooter, no less – traversing north to south from Morocco, Algeria, Niger and onto Nigeria, a distance of nearly 10,000kms. With a total trip time of 28 days, he led his teammates for a collective riding time of 17 days as they overcame all that nature, man and machine could throw at them with aplomb.

In this episode I chat to one of America's most well-know senior motoring journalists/car content creators, MotorTrend's Jonny Lieberman - you'll know him from his work on the mag but also videos like Ignition, Head 2 Head, Best Driver’s Car, and the World’s Greatest Drag Race videos on YouTube and Motor Trend on Demand (links below).    Jonny Lieberman has been MotorTrend’s senior features editor for a decade. During that time, he’s written and made videos about every sort of car under the sun. From driving the one millionth Land Rover Discovery onto Red Square in Moscow, to nearly getting stranded on the side of a snowy volcano in Iceland inside a Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid, to plunging a Mercedes-Benz Unimog into a frozen lake, to hammering a 5,000-pound Bentley Continental GT around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, Jonny has lived the car guy’s dream.    We do talk about how he survived the Unimog in the frozen lake incident! Also there's a look back at his career, his top tips and advice fo

'Brown Car Guy & Buddies'  - Meet Filippa Guarna, who at one point was directing and producing all our commercial videos at Motoring Middle East in Dubai (links to some of those below).   In fact she's also been a radio and print journalist, has worked with motor racing teams, is a Knight Rider fan, owns her grandad's classic Holden and is a full-on car girl! She's also running media courses now helping others to learn and benefit from here two-plus decades of media experience at Media Master Coach (link below).    We go over her career, what she loves about the Middle East, and talk about the amazing, fun and often spectacular video content we created.    Find her here:  Website: www.mediamastercoach.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mediamastercoach/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mediamastercoach/     Love Knight Rider?  Check these out https://amzn.to/2V8UH4F https://amzn.to/2V7x4tn https://amzn.to/2NnkCBk https://amzn.

Meet Bakur Azher of Saudi Auto, he is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's most senior and established motoring journalist. His journey started through a love affair with a Jaguar E-Type and subsequently starting the country's first dedicated automotive publication.    He's seen a lot of change and development over the near three decades since, including an evolution of the carscape and the kind of motors driven there, and women taking the wheel on the streets of Saudi.    And who was KSA's first motoring journalist? In this video we finally establish that too. You might be surprised!   Check this out https://amzn.to/3hkW0XX https://amzn.to/30GxVom   Find Bakur Azher here  Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/saudiauto  Website : https://www.saudiauto.com.sa  Twitter : https://twitter.com/saudiauto  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saudiautosa  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/saudiauto  Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/saudiautosnap  Tikto

John (Yahya) Gardiner, Ford Comms Director: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations  'Brown Car Guy & Buddies'  In this episode I speak to John Gardiner who has been at Ford Motor Company for 30 years and currently has two jobs - Executive Director, Communications & Public Affairs, Ford of Britain & Ireland, and Corporate Communications, Ford of Europe.   As well as a PR guru, he's also a Muslim revert, a student of Chinese and Malay Fighting skills, and of course a fellow Trekkie! We find out about his unique career path from selling classic American muscle at aged 12 to Ford Exec via a catering and Custom Car magazines.    In light of the the lockdown from the COVID-19 Coronavirus and now the #BlackLivesMatter movement and new reports about BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) communities in the UK, the conversation inevitably turned to how a big car company like Ford deals with these issues.  There is some encouraging information about that and the post-Lock

Kicking off a new series with Imthishan Giado of Motoring Middle East, in which we decide if you should buy a certain car. If the two of us both agree we'd buy it, you get the green light!    Like this? Then check this out  https://amzn.to/3hkTPnf   https://amzn.to/30DUryn   Here we shoot for dream car you won't believe is real. But it exists, and I should know - I saw the second one ever made back in 1991 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We explain what it is, whether you could buy one and how much would you pay.    I needed help with this, so I teamed up with my buddy at Motoring Middle East - find him at the links below.    Please subscribe to my channel for more videos like this - and make sure you hit the bell icon to switch on notifications.    If you enjoyed this video please consider supporting me Patreon and you can also exclusively check out my parody Cannonball Run sequel:  https://www.patreon.com/shahzadsheikh   Please subscribe/follow