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Blast from the past
The Hindu Heritage Car Rally saw a line up of some truly amazing cars and two wheelers
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Nissan Leaf review
Remember the old adage where a man finds Ms Perfect after years of searching, but still can't marry her…because she was looking for Mr Perfect. Moral of the story – life is all about making compro...
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Set to blaze a trail?
It has the looks, the size, the passenger space, the power and the performance. It's Chevrolet's new SUV, the Trailblazer
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February 14, 2012
Pulsar of the time
The next-generation Pulsar has just swaggered in. Bajaj managed to somehow keep its important new motorcycle completely under wraps till the official unveiling of the 200NS (Naked Sport). It's fast...
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February 7, 2012
Road to adventure
The camera zooms in on a mangled truck lying in a valley. Near the coiled skeleton of steel is a human skull. Next comes a flurry of images capturing patches of green earth that are crowned with c...
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February 1, 2012
New Renault Pulse review
A friend of mine is the father of identical twin girls. Every time I meet him and his girls, I just can't seem to identify who is who between the twins. Thankfully, the toddlers haven't started ta...
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January 31, 2012
The India appeal
The Toyota Camry's global sales story is impeccable, if you take India out of the picture. The sensible family car that is built to outlive its owner(s) is seen as a luxury car that sells for its...
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January 24, 2012
Mini Cooper and Countryman
We have been living with the Mini's legacy ever since the first Maruti 800. Most small cars even today are front-wheel-drive with transversely mounted, water-cooled engines, a configuration popula...
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January 19, 2012
Speed Racer
It's a bright sunny morning... a wonderful day for any outdoor sport. The ground outside Aditya Patel's house is bustling with cricket enthusiasts cheering players on the field. But inside his hous...
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January 18, 2012
Next addition to the Swift ‘family’
Maruti Suzuki is the King of cost optimisation through platform sharing in the Indian context. Even if, in the past, there might have been instances when one might have thought that they are flogg...
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January 17, 2012
Scoring on excess
Stepping out of an LF-A after a two lap stint around the Fuji Speedway leaves you wanting more. It's like leaving a seven-course gourmet meal after nibbling on a starter. But it's still a moment to...
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January 11, 2012
Auto adventures
There are a lot of ways to ‘discover' India. As Dave Alefail, Tim Douros, Toni Csermelyi, and 30 other foreigners – including 11 women – from nine different countries found out, one of the best way...
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January 10, 2012
Jag of all trades
At first glance, you might mistake the Jaguar XF for the XJ. It shares more than a hint of the bigger Jag. The family look, so to say, has reached the XF too and that means it gets the XJ's beauti...
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MINI car's India review
Riders in the rain
A cosy corner for bikers
Packing it all in
Besting its own benchmark
February 9, 2012
Live coverage of The Hindu Heritage Car Rally 2012
February 3, 2012
Riding into history
Her lips were chapped from sustained exposure to cold weather. Her eyes were swollen and bloodshot from sleeplessness. A constant backache had given her a hunch. Dead bugs were trapped in her helm...
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January 31, 2012
Driven by Dzire
The second-generation Dzire is quite different from the car it replaces. For starters, it's only 3995mm long so it is a whole 165mm shorter than its predecessor. To keep length under the crucial fo...
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January 26, 2012
How efficient is your car?
“You have a magic foot,” said the car maker when Narayanan R Menon told them about his car's mileage. It was 46.33 km per litre of diesel. The car? Tata Indigo Manza Quadrajet. “There is no magic....
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January 24, 2012
The Safari continues
First Drive Tata Safari Storme
When it comes to its design aspects, the Tata Safari is a bit like the Porsche 911 in that it hasn't changed remarkably at all since its launch. When...
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January 18, 2012
Steer to victory
The Sacred Heart Alumni (Church Park) Association conducts a Car Rally on January 22. The rally is being organised by the Madras Motor Sports Club which is approved by the Federation of Motor Spor...
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January 18, 2012
New Maruti Suzuki Swift DZire review
When the Swift DZire was first launched a little over four years ago, it was not the first sedan that was sharing the platform of a sibling hatch, but I had expected it to be amongst the first to l...
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January 11, 2012
Delhi Auto Expo 2012
Quite apart from the claim to be the first in the calendar of global automotive shows to throw open its doors, the Auto Expo in New Delhi, a biennial event, is more importantly a key showcase of t...
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January 10, 2012
Another one for the commuter
The single-cylinder 125 Duke is a street bike jointly developed by KTM with Bajaj and already introduced in select European markets. It's taken no time to charge into the lead and become a segment...
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January 5, 2012
Super bikes steal the show
The high-end bike market in India is getting more exciting. At the opening day of Auto Expo on Thursday, U.S. iconic bikemaker Harley-Davidson announced that two of its bikes would now cost less a...
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