Bangkok Motor Show 2012

Part 1The annual Bangkok International Motor Show is an important event for India as it is like a preview to many vehicles that will be heading here in the future. After recovering from the devastating floods last year, Bangkok played the perfect host to all car manufacturers and added its...

Dec 30, 2024

Future Cars

Part 1Manufacturers go to great lengths to guard their future cars. Primarily the reason behind it is to ensure their competitors are taken by surprise when the final product is launched. Some manufacturers have gone to the edge of creating their very own test tracks to keep secret prototypes away...

Dec 30, 2024

New York Motor Show 2012

Part 1When the name New York is mentioned images of Wal l Street, the famous skyscrapers and the yellow taxispop up. What many people don't know is that this city has had a 112 year old love affair with the motoring world and has hosted this annual event with a...

Dec 30, 2024

Saving on travel

Part 1Travelling to work by car might be convenient, but with high petrol prices, it's not exactly economical. We analyse alternative modes of travel that offer better savingsDriving to work all alone in a car isn’t the only way to commute. But it is without doubt extremely convenient. For starters,...

Dec 30, 2024

Doon Bashing

Part 1I have been in rally cars regularly over the last couple of years. Although I never was at the wheel, I thought I knew a lot about off-roading. I suspect that is why my first off-road challenge with Tata Motors Full Throttle in Dehradun ended with me stuck between...

Dec 30, 2024

Parx Super Car Show 2013

Part 1 The 2013 edition of the Parx Super Car Show was held at the Mahalaxmi Race Course, RWITC on January 26 and 27. Thousands of visitors gathered to see these beautiful machines which are not commonly seen. Visitors got an opportunity to witness cars from manufacturers like Ferrari, Mercedes, Lamborghini,...

Dec 30, 2024

2013 Valley Run: Where you brag about what you drag

Part-1  What is it about human beings wanting to go faster and faster, wanting to look for every option to make that one millisecond count and moreover wanting to show off that they have the ‘biggest, boldest and maddest way of them all’? My three-way ponderings answered themselves during the...

Dec 30, 2024

Get ready to get lost; literally!

Part 1 “Not all who wander are lost”, were the words I stole from a great man to keep the spirits up while my navigator and I were driving through pitch black darkness along a narrow mud trail on a desolate farmland in Nasik. It was not as if we...

Dec 30, 2024

Five cars that changed the face of Indian motoring

Introduction In all walks of life there are always those that follow and those that lead. Holding their torches high, they have led the teaming masses through darkness, storm and whatever other obstacles that was thrown their way. JRD Tata, Vallabhbhai Patel, Field Marshall Manekshaw are just a few to...

Dec 30, 2024

Honda Drive to Discover Edition 4

Introduction It’s not about the destination but about the journey and that single line sums up my journey with Honda’s DrivetoDiscover4 from Chennai to Vizag. The interesting bit is that I am officially from Andhra Pradesh – and if you ask me why ‘officially’? That is because this is actually...

Dec 30, 2024

Michelin Pilot Experience

Introduction As an automotive enthusiast, one tends to read a lot about how to drive better. The fastest drivers in the world are racing drivers, so naturally enthusiasts devour information on how to drive around a racetrack. Ask any enthusiast about this, and (s)he’ll deluge you with terms like “racing...

Dec 30, 2024

Ganpati Fiesta with the Ford

Introduction Ganpati Bappa Morya! I am back to writing for CarWale and it feels great! You might not have come across my name on this website before, but now the Thakur ‘with both his hands intact’ is back. Lot of things have changed in this span and that includes me...

Dec 30, 2024

Kicking up dirt with the Audi Q drive

The way to the trackFirst week into the job and I was given a day out! No-that does not translate into a ‘day off’. My colleague Omkar Thakur and I were sent to an off road event- the Q drive, that was organised by Audi Mumbai at The Westin, Goregaon,...

Dec 30, 2024

Formula One Simulator, Smaaaash Mumbai

Introduction How close is close when you want to experience a motorsport that is reserved for a privileged few and costs more than 10 million dollars to enter? If you have guessed it right we are talking about Formula 1 and the answer is very close. We recently got a...

Dec 30, 2024

Inside the Shell of Ferrari F1

En route DelhiWatching a Formula1 race live from the stands is an incredible experience – that is what they said.  Couple of weeks back I could only imagine it– yes, it does highlight the fact that despite calling myself an avid enthusiast I had never attended a F1 race weekend....

Dec 30, 2024