India responds to the Hummer in style, civilian version to be unveiled.

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! India’s response to the Hummer. Presenting the M&M Axe. Image from Militaryphotos.net
Mahindra and Mahindra recently tested the Mahindra Axe, a multipurpose vehicle developed to replace the againg “Windy 505″ for the Indian Army.
Raj Khalsa, [...]

Indian Rolls Royce coupe on Autoblogs top 10 list.

The popular automotive blog Autoblog complies Top 10 lists and earlier this month, they came up with the Top 10 Coachbuilt Supercars.
Rewind about 11 years, A stuffy movie theater in Madras, A fairly popular hero speeding away on a wide bodied convertible SUV resulted in me going WTF is that car. I searched high and [...]

Tata - India’s “East India Tea Company”?

Land Rover could soon be Tata’s luxury division.
It looks like India’s “East India Tea Company” will be Tata.
Although the official word is mum, Tata Motors and Mahindra have been linked with possibly bidding for Ford’s Land Rover and Jaguar divisions. Both brands are currently owned by Ford, what needs to be remembered is [...]

F1 coming to India: Analysis: Part 2- What has India got to gain?

Part 1: Our Analysis on the circuit location is here
The Taj will be one of the major attractions. Photo from Saad.
Street circuit or not, F1 is coming to India, Bernie thinks, its better than the USGP.
Anywho, is this a boon for India or as Ashoe put it, a resource hog?
A one off GP [...]

V Dub back on track in India

The VW Golf GTI and the “old” VW Beetle.
Will India see this on it’s roads?.

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An open letter to Ford / Volvo India.

Dear Ford / Volvo,
Speaking on behalf of a billion people, I welcome you to our country. I appreciate the competition, the wide choice, the pollution and the effort to substitute the public transport system with traffic jams and increased consumption of petrol.
I also have to thank you for your efforts to con the Indian buyer [...]

Let’s Motor - In India.

After months of contemplation, BMW has decided that it will launch its small car MINI Cooper in India in 2009. This will be in addition to its plans of producing the 3 and 5 series in its plant in Chennai.
The Chairman of the Board of Management also hinted that BMW’s production facilities in India [...]

India set to become the Detroit of Asia?

The first BMW produced in India, signed by the Tamilnadu Chief Minister.Image courtesy: The Hindu.

Daimler Chrysler AG is set to join the ranks of BMW and Ford by setting up its own plant in India.
The construction of a fully owned plant began on Thursday near Pune in western India. Although the company currently [...]

New Delhi Formula1 GP - Circuit designer visits India.

We wrote earlier about the possibility of a street racing circuit in Delhi as early as 2009. The project is supported by F1 supremo Bernie, The Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dixit and the Indian Richard Branson, Vijay Mallya.
Now the German architect and designer of Formula One motor racing circuits Hermann Tilke visited India. [...]

Narain finishes 4th in Brands Hatch

Narain in the Team India car in Brands Hatch. (Image from Tema India A1GP website.)
Narain Karthikeyan driving for Team India in the A1GP finished 4th in the Feature race.
The weekend started with Narain qualifying fifth for the sprint race. Although it was India’s best qualifying position so far, Narain was disappointed.
I’m not really happy [...]

Bad weekend for the Indian racers

Both Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandok were racing this weekend as we had posted earlier.
Narain representing Team India qualified 5th for the sprint race, the best qualifying position for India thus far, but unfortunately he could not turn that into a good result.

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Karun and Narain show some speed.

In the season opener GP2 race in Bahrain, Karun Chandok racing for the Italian team Durango qualified 16th with a time of 1:41:810, .937 seconds behind Luca Filippi of the Super Nova International team.
In the first race, he managed to gain 5 positions finishing 9th behind fellow team mate Borja Garcia who qualified 8th. The [...]

Narain talks about another season in A1GP and Speedcar

In a recent interview ( I think with the PTI ) Narain spoke about his future in racing, his outing with Team India and the newly formed Speedcar series, which he is rumored to be a part of.
Specifically answering a question about the A1GP and the possibility of him racing with them for the next [...]

A man and his car.

It is common for men to love their cars and they make no bones about professing their love. Yes, I am one of them, as most of my close friends would attest to having heard the “I want to die when I am driving” statement at various points of my life.
Well, a farmer in [...]

Narain Karthikeyan signs up to race in the Speedcar series

F1, A1GP, 24 hours of LeMans and now Narain Karthikeyan joins big name drivers like Jean Alesi, Stefan Johansson, Gianni Morbidelli and Johnny Herbert in the new Speedcar championship starting in November this year.

Speedcar championship is a newly formed series that pits 24 identical cars using a 600bhp engine. From the initial looks of it, [...]

Delhi the next Monaco - A F1 race in 2009 in India?

A Ferrari at Monaco, click to enlarge.

With Vijay Mallya now taking a keen interest in bringing F1 to India, things seem to be looking up. Now that he is sponsoring the Toyota F1 team using his Kingfisher brand, the Indian tycoon has a vested interest in the process.
After a meeting with Sheila Dixit, the [...]

Team India aims for a podium in Mexico - A1GP Round 9

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No Men allowed - A new cab service just for the ladies.

Capitalizing on the lack of safety and security, Revathi Roy is launching a new cab service in Bombay (now called Mumbai) exclusively for women. And she calls it Forsche a play on the German sports car maker’s name.

Her business plan is very simple. Providing a women’s only cab service with women drivers. She seems [...]

2007 F1 Season preview - Part 1 - McLaren, Renault and Ferrari

With 17 days left for the season opener in Melbourne, Australia we decided to update all you lazy fans on the 2007 season. The new insignia, the new drivers and how they did in testing. And a little bit of prediction for the first few races of the season.
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes:

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Mahindra SUV soon in The U.S.A.

Autoblog.com reports that Mahindra & Mahindra makers of the Scorpio SUV will be importing their vehicles to the USA shortly.

The Scorpio.
Image from Mahindra.com

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The Indian Le Mans Project

Being a big F1 fan, I have never managed to catch a complete broadcast of the 24 Hours of Le Mans ever. I do occasionally read about it and keep myself updated on drivers who make it into F1.

The LC70 / LC75 from the Indian Le Mans Project website.

But this weekend when I was [...]

Tatas’ Singur Project starts with trouble

Tata Motors started construction on the 997 acre yesterday with the ground breaking ceremony. The land acquired has got Tata and the ruling party in West Bengal into a lot of trouble.
This is important because of two reasons. Tata Motors is trying to make Singur the Detroit of India and this is the home for [...]

Spyker Coming to a Galli near you

The Dutch car maker Spyker and the newest member of the F1 community will be launching its cars in India shortly.
Spyker plans to import its super cars to India and is currently looking at appointing dealers and soon after, they plan on creating an engineering & development centre at Gurgaon.

The C8 Laviolette from Spyker’s [...]