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Skoda Fabia Test Drive and Review

Introduction Skoda as it claims, they are first manufacturer to create a new segment called superhatch few years back. But the Fabia which was launched with huge built-up bombed at the market due to its expensive price tag. On the contrary, Volkswagen the parent group of skoda surprised and succeeded with its Polo due to [...]

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Tata Indica Vista 90 Test Drive and Review

Introduction Indian customers particularly auto enthusiast have been wanting of performance cars for a longer time. Slowly the transition seems to happen and manufacturers have started rolling out performance variants of mass market customers. Recently Volkswagen launched Polo 1.6L, Fiat rolled punto 90bhp and Linea T-jet. Yet, most are pricey and unaffordable. Tata will soon [...]

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Tata Aria Test drive and Review

Design and Styling If you see Aria from sides, suddenly you think of another car. Don’t call the Aria styling as Innova-ish. A sedan can be built with three box whatever you do. Similarly, Tata designers wanted to give an softer profile and they have no further option than building a Innova-ish Aria. Aria was [...]

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Suzuki Slingshot Test Drive and Review

Introduction Suzuki which came into the Indian market for the second time has tasted success with the Access scooter. With the launch of GS150R it stormed into the 150cc performance bike segment. But Suzuki’s mass segment offerings Zeus and Heat never kicked off in a big way. In fact, 125cc segment is itself confusing segment [...]

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Avenger 220 DTSI Test Drive & Review

Introduction Avenger, the cheapest cruiser bike available in India, has got a heart transplant. Yes, we are discussing about the new Bajaj Avenger 220, which has the got the ‘Fastest Indian bike’ Pulsar 220′s engine tweaked for a cruiser set up. Bajaj Avenger was first launched as Kawasaki Bajaj Eliminator in 2001 with a price [...]

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Volkswagen Vento Test Drive & Review

Introduction Volkswagen is making all the right moves to match for its lost time to conquer the indian market. Kudos to Volkswagen for nicely positioning its products and phasing its new product launches. After a longggg flight we reached Jaipur from Chennai to drive the vento. We didn’t had any interest on product presentation. When [...]

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Maruti A Star VXi AT Test Drive & Review

Introduction Comfort comes with a premium, one cannot deny this fact! Considering the Indian road infrastructure and traffic conditions, India should be the world of cars with automatic gear boxes. But the mileage conscious Indian buyers and conservative manufacturers doesn’t want to try their hands. Even in the Indian two wheeler industry, the automatic scooter [...]

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Yamaha SZ and SZ-X Test Drive & Review

Introduction Yamaha has rolled out a new 150 cc bike called ‘SZ’. Aimed clearly at performance commuters (defined by Bajaj), SZ 150 sits below FZ-16 and is intended to expand the Yamaha’s market share in the 150cc segment. Also the new SZ is fills the gap between Yamaha Gladiator ( or SS 125) and Yamaha [...]

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Fiat Punto 90bhp Test Drive & Review

Introduction When there is no competition, car makers don’t give 10 variants for a particular model. I am talking about the new Punto 90HP (93 PS) diesel car that joins the rest of the Grande Punto cars available in different trim levels clubbed with 1.2 L / 1.4 L petrol and 1.3 L Diesel (76 [...]

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Hyundai Verna Transform Test Drive & Review

Introduction When Verna came into the Indian market, it had big expectation. Hyundai the korean automaker took on the mighty Honda city. But Hyundai played smartly with the launch of diesel engine and succeeded. But the rivals like Fiat Linea and soon-to-be-launched Vento eyes a prominent share in this segment. Customers of this segment are ‘prestige’ [...]