Wheels is the automotive segment of Bangladeshi news platform ‘The Business Standard’ (TBS). If it's got wheels, we got it.
It is owned by The Horizon Media and Publication Ltd based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
As the sun peeked over the horizon, the empty Friday morning streets started getting filled with vibrant-coloured Vespas. The plan was a coordinated rally towards Lazz Polli Convention - a resort located at Hemayetpur on the outskirts of Dhaka at the N5 Highway - to celebrate Vespa World Day 2023, the most anticipated event of the year for club members and Vespa enthusiasts.
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📸 🖊 Saikat Roy
The Bajaj Pulsar N160 is an exhilarating blend of power and precision. Its specs lay the foundation for an unforgettable riding experience, while its handling propel it to the forefront of its segment.
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📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Saikat Roy
With its blend of style and engineering, the Audi A6 stands as an exemplary piece in the realm of luxury sedans. Team Wheels had the exclusive opportunity to drive around the town in an Audi A6 to find out how well the desirable Euro sports-sedan fares in the growing local market of luxury sedans Bangladesh.
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📸🖊 Saikat Roy
With its blend of style and engineering, the Audi A6 stands as an exemplary piece in the realm of luxury sedans. Team Wheels had the exclusive opportunity to drive around the town in an Audi A6 to find out how well the desirable Euro sports-sedan fares in the growing local market of luxury sedans Bangladesh.
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📸🖊 Saikat Roy
Syed Abrar, a passionate car enthusiast, has been around E90 Corollas ever since his childhood. In fact, this is the platform which introduced him to the world of project cars. Unlike his previous Corolla projects, however, this time Syed Abrar actually went the other way and the result is a neatly done 'restomod' project.
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The Gixxer 155 is a highly cost-effective motorbike that provides riders with a pleasant riding experience, excellent performance, and an appealing design. This makes it a favoured option among young riders in search of trendy and reasonably priced motorcycles.
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📸Md Abdullah Al Istiak
🖊Abdullah Al Suyaib
Life is too short to drive boring cars. Or at least cars that look mundanely boring. The GR sport lineup from Toyota aims to rectify just that - add funky styling and stiffer suspension to cars one wouldn’t even look twice at. But there is no denying the fact that, with the GR's styling, Toyota finally managed to make the clumsy looking CH-R look good.
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📸🖊Ahbaar Mohammad
If you're on the hunt for a crossover that fuses style, performance, and a hint of sportiness, this 2020 Toyota C-HR GR Sport deserves a spot on your shortlist. With its athletic demeanour and unique design, this compact SUV should please the inner car enthusiast in you.
For its athletic demeanour and unique design, this 2020 Toyota C-HR GR Sport deserves a spot on your shortlist
Heavy rainfall comes at the price of waterlogged roads, heavy traffic and traveling through that, one has to make sure their car stays protected from the water, and components stay intact so that moisture does not get inside the cabin.
Here are some tips to keep your vehicle safe in rain:
Traveling through heavy rainfall, one has to make sure their car stays protected from the water, and components stay intact so that moisture does not get inside the cabin
Given the popularity of compact crossovers in Bangladesh, almost all authorised dealerships, which sell brand new cars, have at least a couple of options in this segment.
Here are some of the most popular compact crossovers officially available in Bangladesh:
🖋️ Shamit Reza
One thing which gives the CRV an edge over other competitors in this segment is its smaller 1500cc turbocharged engine. This results in the CRV having one of the lowest Annual Income Tax (AIT) of any 7-seater SUV in Bangladesh.
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🖊Saikat Roy
The Toyota Corolla Cross, as the name suggests, is a Corolla turned into a crossover. Its agile performance, stability, and safety features, including blind spot monitoring and a 360° camera setup, make it an amazing vehicle for the challenging roads of Bangladesh. The top-spec S Leather trim also offers upholstered vegan leather seats, soft-touch materials, rear AC vents and a panoramic sunroof.
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🖊Saikat Roy
The Nissan X-Trail, against all odds, managed to make a name for itself among the Toyota biassed market in Bangladesh. The crossover is available in about every configuration imaginable: hybrid or non-hybrid, with 5-seats or 7-seats, front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, only to name a few. This probably explains how the X-trail managed to garner attention for its appeal and success in the local automobile market.
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🖊Saikat Roy
There are many brand new models from Japanese, Chinese and even European manufacturers in this segment as well. Despite the options, however, the Japanese grey market imports are the ones dominating the market.
For this feature, we compare three of the most popular reconditioned SUVs under 60 lakh in Bangladesh.
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🖊Saikat Roy
A naked sports bike is ideal for riders who desire speed but also lives in the most densely populated country in the world- Bangladesh, where one needs to squeeze through spaces between buses and cars, barely a few inches wider than the average shoulder width during rush hour traffic.
Here are the top 3 150-160cc naked sports bikes officially available in Bangladesh:
🖊Saikat Roy
📰This particular Chaser Tourer from Chittagong is one of the finest examples of its kind, featured in this week's issue of Wheels.
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📸🖊Asif Chowdhury
📝 The Toyota Esquire is a heavily specced up variant of the third generation Noah on offer since 2014. The Voxy is a sporty looking alternative to the Noah, offering nearly identical features.
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📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Saikat Roy
📝 The Toyota Esquire is a heavily specced up variant of the third generation Noah on offer since 2014. The Voxy is a sporty looking alternative to the Noah, offering nearly identical features.
📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Saikat Roy
The Toyota Esquire is a heavily specced up variant of the third generation Noah on offer since 2014. The Voxy is a sporty looking alternative to the Noah, offering nearly identical features
📝 The Toyota Esquire is a heavily specced up variant of the third generation Noah on offer since 2014. The Voxy is a sporty looking alternative to the Noah, offering nearly identical features.
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📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Saikat Roy
Compared to the regular Xpander, the Xpander Cross has been designed to look like it’s meant to go offroad. The new model receives fender flares and bumper guards both in the front and the rear.
Read More: https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/mitsubishi-xpander-cross-performance-safety-space-and-more-634822
📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Shamit Reza
Compared to the regular Xpander, the Xpander Cross has been designed to look like it’s meant to go offroad. The new model receives fender flares and bumper guards both in the front and the rear.
Read More: https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/mitsubishi-xpander-cross-performance-safety-space-and-more-634822
📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Shamit Reza
Compared to the regular Xpander, the Xpander Cross has been designed to look like it’s meant to go offroad. The new model receives fender flares and bumper guards both in the front and the rear.
📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Shamit Reza
Compared to the regular Xpander, the Xpander Cross has been designed to look like it’s meant to go offroad. The new model receives fender flares and bumper guards both in the front and the rear
In collaboration with JZR3V and Thursty Garage, Star Cineplex invited several car owners who own the specific car models featured on various instalments of the 'Fast and Furious' franchise to watch ‘Fast X’ at Star Cineplex's SKS Tower branch and park their cars on the driveway.
Read More: https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/star-cineplex-hosts-car-show-celebrate-premier-fast-x-635158
📸 Saikat Roy/TBS
In collaboration with JZR3V and Thursty Garage, Star Cineplex invited several car owners who own the specific car models featured on various movies of the franchise to watch the movie at Star Cineplex's SKS Tower branch and park their cars on the driveway. on the evening of May 18th.
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Fast X, the tenth movie of the 'Fast and Furious' franchise has finally been released on 19th May, premiering on the same day as the rest of the world.
In a country where travelling by a motorcycle was just about convenience, the 'different' cruiser motorcycles made a real impact on enthusiastic minds, resulting in high sales (thanks to the local motorbike communities) and influencing more accessories to enter the market as well.
An example of one such cruiser motorcycle is the Lifan K19 – a modern yet retro-fitted cruiser.
Read More: https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/lifan-k-19-it-most-dominant-cruiser-motorcycle-630330
📸🖊 Sahil Ahsan
In a country where travelling by a motorcycle was just about convenience, the 'different' cruiser motorcycles made a real impact on enthusiastic minds, resulting in high sales (thanks to the local motorbike communities) and influencing more accessories to enter the market as well.
An example of one such cruiser motorcycle is the Lifan K19 – a modern yet retro-fitted cruiser.
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Lifan K19 comes with a single-cylinder, 4-stroke, 2-valve and 165cc liquid-cooled engine which is very torque biassed and quite powerful for its compression ratio
It's no secret that Honda targeted the Euro R range to a different crowd, a matured one to be obvious, which is reflected in the subtle and sleeper-esque styling the CL1 received. The Torneo R was a special edition of the sixth-generation Honda Accord, which was produced from 1997 to 2002.
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https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/torneo-euro-r-docile-type-r-626558
The Torneo R was a special edition of the sixth-generation Honda Accord. And the Milano Red Torneo Euro R is as pristine as it can be for a 20-plus-year-old Japanese import.
Read More: https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/torneo-euro-r-docile-type-r-626558
📸🖊Ahbaar Mohammad
When Akif was looking to get himself a single-speed road bike, he realised that there were barely any options available from a local manufacturer. This was when – and how – Akif decided to build a custom bicycle of his own.
Read More: https://www.tbsnews.net/features/wheels/custom-road-bike-building-right-bike-right-users-623114
📸 Akif Hamid
🖊 Saikat Roy
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