Car India

19/02/2024

Today we spent some time with the Lotus Eletre R. This is their first model in the country and it is a fully electric SUV that can go from 0-100 km/h in 2.95 seconds.



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16/02/2024

Sure, we don’t get the Škoda Octavia in India anymore, but that hasn’t stopped the carmaker from giving one of its best-selling models a facelift in markets abroad. There are a fair bit of changes despite being an evolutionary mid-life refresh.

Key highlights:

✅ Meaner looks thanks to a more angular front and rear bumper, revised LED headlamps and LED tail lamps, different alloy wheel design and repositioned LED DRLs

✅ New dual-tone brown and black cabin theme similar to the Superb and Kodiaq

✅ Updated 10-inch digital driver's display and touchscreen infotainment unit (13-inch infotainment unit optional)

✅ AI-based ChatGPT integrated chatbot for the infotainment system

✅ Powered by a range of 1.5-litre TSI petrol, 2.0-litre TDI diesel and 2.0-litre TSI petrol engines with six-speed manual and seven-speed DSG transmission options

✅The Octavia RS packs a 265-hp 2.0-litre TSI petrol motor, paired to a seven-speed DSG transmission

Considering how the Škoda Octavia nameplate was key to gaining the reputation that the carmaker enjoys in India today, do you think the sedan should make a comeback to the country? Drop your thoughts in the comments below.

https://carindia.in/?p=37722

ŠKODA

16/02/2024

The first-ever Thermax Fest by the leading global energy and renewable solutions company, Thermax, was held in its home city of Pune. We were happy to pay a visit and get an insight into the extensive list of multi-pronged solutions they have to offer.

16/02/2024

One lakh Škodas!

Škoda Auto India’s sales accelerated to six figures in two years; their fastest yet.

The “INDIA 2.0” project that was launched by Škoda in 2018 certainly seems to have turned things around for the company.
Read more here https://carindia.in/one-lakh-skodas/
ŠKODA

15/02/2024

Abarth have turned 75 years old, so to celebrate they have come up with this - the Abarth 500 75° Anniversario special edition with a black and gold colour-scheme which seems inspired by the John Player Special livery on the Lotus 7 F1 racer.

Limited to 1,368 units, which is a nod to the capacity in cubic centimetres of the 1.4-litre T-Jet engine, this car has a some choice upgrades, such as more engine output at 180 hp and 250 Nm, more engine sound courtesy of the famous Record Monza exhaust and Koni FSD shocks to keep it all in check.

Indians were lucky enough to receive the T-Jet engine in but one but the different cars - the Fiat Linea, Abarth Punto and Abarth Avventura. Read more: https://carindia.in/?p=37696
Fiat Fiat India Abarth Stellantis

15/02/2024

The new Tata Nexon in ICE form has scored five stars in Global NCAP tests for both adult occupant protection and child occupant protection. The Nexon scored 32.22/34 points for adult occupant protection and 44.52/49 points for child occupant protection. Since the facelift, the Nexon has offered six airbags as well as electronic stability control across all variants, which was a great move by Tata to increase the safety quotient of one of their most popular cars on the market. Read more: https://carindia.in/?p=37690
Tata Motors Tata Nexon

The Tata Nexon (ICE) has scored five stars in the Global NCAP crash tests, for both adult occupant protection and child occupant protection

15/02/2024

The new Nissan Juke N-Sport is a new variant in a bold new shade of yellow with a slew of additional equipment. Are you a fan? Let us know what you think. 👇...

15/02/2024

We’ve been driving around with the Tata Nexon.EV that, in its latest iteration has received quite the facelift inside and out. To know what we’re truly up to with this electric SUV, stay tuned!
Tata Motors Cars Tata.ev

15/02/2024

The Skoda Slavia gets an additional flavour of choice called the Style Edition, launched at Rs 19.13 lakh, ex-showroom. Carrying a premium of Rs 30,000 over the top-spec Style variant, this additional flavour won’t be around for long as only 500 units will be made.

Here’s everything about it:

✅ Can be had in the Candy White, Brilliant Silver and Tornado Red body shades

✅ Blacked-out roof and ORVMs

✅ Gains a dual-dash camera and puddle lamps

✅ Available only with the 150-hp, 1.5-litre TSI petrol engine, paired with a seven-speed DSG transmission

ŠKODA

13/02/2024

Scuderia Ferrari have just launched the new SF-24. It is the Italian company's 70th car that has been built to take part in the F1 World Championship.

Ferrari have said following the positive reception in Las Vegas last year, regarding the livery, white makes a return with yellow--Ferrari's second favourite colour. The SF-24 and the WEC 499P both share the same shade of red.

The yellow longitudinal stripes on a Ferrari car have not been seen since 1968, while for the first time, this year, it has been paired with white. The wheels are red with a double white and yellow stripe as well.

13/02/2024

Aside from the Vantage road car and its GT3 counterpart, Aston Martin also revealed their F1 challenger for the 2024 season - the AMR24. This is the first Aston Martin F1 car to be built at the new AMRTC in Silverstone.

The notable changes are centred around the front wing and the over-wheel winglets. Aston aims to control the wake from the front tyres and direct it away from the rest of the car, which should allow other downforce-generating surfaces to work more efficiently.

The AMR24 gets overhauled sidepods and bodywork to improve airflow management around the floor and over the rear wing. The front suspension has also been modified to improve performance in conjunction with the front wing and floor. The rear suspension has been tweaked to improve aero efficiency around the rear wing.
Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team

12/02/2024

The Aston Martin Vantage in its current iteration has soldiered on for quite a while since its debut in 2018 and now it's finally received a much needed update. That being said this isn’t a mid-life refresh with a subtle visual makeover, but it gets some serious mechanical enhancements. The carmaker has gone ahead and introduced the updated version of the GT3 race car.

Key highlights:

✅ 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine now makes 665 hp and 800 Nm (only 15 hp off the DB12), a mind-boggling bump up of 155 hp and 110 Nm, thanks to modified camshafts, revised compression ratio, bigger turbos, and better cooling

✅ Quicker shifting eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox helps it hit 0-100 km/h in 3.5 seconds with a top speed of 325 km/h

✅ Other additional performance trickery includes adaptive dampers and a revised underbody

✅ Runs on 21-inch forged alloy wheels, with optional carbon ceramic brakes saving up to 27 kg of unsprung weight

✅ Gets a bigger front grille and Matrix LED headlights similar to the DB12 as well as a chunkier rear bumper and larger tailpipes

✅ Features a new DB12-esque dashboard, featuring a 10.25-inch infotainment system, as well as an optional Bowers & Wilkins 15-speaker, 1,170-watt audio system

✅ The GT3 race car’s powertrain is detuned to produced over 544 hp (variable by boost) and gets a more aggressive body kit, an Xtrac six-speed sequential transmission, carbon fibre body panels and an aluminium chassis based on the road-legal Vantage

What do you think of the bonkers changes done to the Aston Martin Vantage? Comment below!

https://carindia.in/?p=37608
Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin

10/02/2024

If you are a car enthusiast whose ideal morning involves a cup of coffee and admiring some beautiful cars, then you must visit when in Dubai.

09/02/2024

It is a momentous occasion for the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga as the MPV has crossed the one million sales mark since it was first launched in 2012. What’s impressive about this feat is that up to four lakh sales were racked up in the last three years itself. Maruti Suzuki claims this feat makes it the fastest-selling MPV to reach one million sales and has claimed to help the Ertiga capture 37.5 per cent of the MPV market share.

What do you think about this feat of the long-running Maruti Suzuki Ertiga? Comment below!

https://t.co/2UQoWjfCIg
Maruti Suzuki Arena

09/02/2024

Škoda has revealed design sketches of the new Octavia, and it follows an evolutionary approach to the fourth-gen model’s design. There are noticeable changes, however. The LED DRLs seem to have been repositioned above the headlamp, and both front and rear bumpers are different, though there may be more discernible differences in the production version.

In production in India since 2002, the Octavia was discontinued in 2023 in the face of BS6.2 emission norms. Considering the storied history of the Škoda Octavia in India, we hope the Octy will make a comeback to India, along with the RS version, which was one of the first-ever cars to give Indian enthusiasts a taste of budget-friendly performance. Read more: https://carindia.in/?p=37581
ŠKODA

09/02/2024

Well, that didn’t take long. A quick teaser video later and Pagani has unleashed its latest track-only speed demon, the Huayra R Evo. It improves on the already monstrous Huayra R in a multitude of ways to make things more exciting. The cherry on top is the fact that it is an open-top beast with pop-up roof panels that actually increases downforce by five per cent with the roof off!

Key highlights:

✅ 6.0-litre naturally aspirated V12 petrol engine uprated to 900 hp and 770 Nm thanks to a new trumpet design for the intake manifold, new camshafts, and a tweaked exhaust system to make it the most powerful Pagani in existence

✅ Paired to a six-speed sequential gearbox, it hits a top speed of 350 km/h

✅ Heave damper, Pirelli P Zero slick tyres as well as CCM-R self-ventilated carbon ceramic brakes and bespoke racing pads help enhance its overall handling prowess

✅ ‘Codalunga’ treatment of extending the front and rear proportions and a shark fin, helps it produce 45 per cent more downforce than the Huayra R

✅ At 320 km/h it produces more downforce than its 1,060-kg kerb weight

✅ Owners will join the carmaker’s ‘Arte in Pista’ club which is exclusive to Pagani track hypercar owners for non-competitive track events

While prices aren’t out yet, the cost will be sky high. So, if you had a lot of dosh, and want to experience a track car unrestricted on a race track, would you pick the Pagani Huayra R Evo? Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below.

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Pagani Automobili

09/02/2024

Porsche have revealed the new Taycan in the sports sedan, Cross Turismo and Sport Turismo forms and the Taycan Turbo S with 952 hp is the most powerful production Porsche till date. It hits 100 km/h from a standstill in 2.4 seconds, which is four-tenths quicker than the previous generation Taycan Turbo S.

There’s a new rear-axle motor which is 10 kg lighter, and coupled with a new battery helps the Taycan Turbo S shed 15 kg of kerb weight. Range has gone up as well, with 630 km (WLTP) for the Turbo S.

The base Taycan receives similar improvements, with more power, quicker acceleration and longer range, and details about the Taycan 4S and Taycan Turbo will be unveiled soon. We expect the updated Taycan to reach our shores towards the end of this year or early next year. Read more: https://carindia.in/?p=37566
Porsche Porsche India

08/02/2024

The Tata Tiago and Tigor iCNG have just achieved an important moment in the Indian automotive industry as they are now the first CNG cars in the country to get an automated transmission. Prices for the Tiago iCNG AMT variants start at Rs 7.90 lakh (ex-showroom) whereas the Tigor iCNG AMT starts at Rs 8.85 lakh, (ex-showroom). The automatic variants also carry a price premium of up to Rs 55,000 for the Tiago iCNG AMT and up to Rs 60,000 for the Tigor iCNG AMT compared to their manual counterparts.

Variant wise ex-showroom prices:

Tiago iCNG AMT XTA - Rs 7.90 lakh
Tiago iCNG AMT XZA+ - Rs 8.80 lakh
Tiago iCNG AMT XZA+ (DT) - Rs 8.90 lakh
Tiago iCNG AMT NRG - Rs 8.80 lakh

Tigor iCNG AMT XZA - Rs 8.85 lakh
Tigor iCNG AMT XZA+ - Rs 9.55 lakh

Both cars are specced with a five-speed AMT, paired to a 1.2-litre petrol engine that delivers 73.5 hp and 95 Nm in CNG mode. The two cars can also be paired to a five-speed manual gearbox. In addition to this, there is a new Tornado Blue shade for the Tiago, Grassland Beige for the Tiago NRG and a Meteor Bronze paint option in the Tigor.

http://carindia.in/?p=37559
Tata Motors Cars

08/02/2024

Mahindra listened to customer feedback and updated the interiors of the XUV400 massively, with a dual-tone design and 10.25-inch screens for the driver’s display as well as the infotainment system. We spent some time with the updated EL Pro model, and our thoughts are right now live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lYwd48IbQ0o
Mahindra Automotive Mahindra XUV400

07/02/2024

It has been a long time coming, but the latest iteration of the Mini Cooper finally gets internal combustion engine options after initially debuting as an electric-only hatch. And the good news is that there’s very little to visually differentiate it from the EV.

Here’s a closer look at them:
✅ Cooper C gets a 156-hp 1.5-litre three-cylinder petrol engine, helping it hit 0-100 km/h in 7.7 seconds

✅ Cooper S utilises a 204-hp 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, enough for a 0-100 km/h sprint in 7.7 seconds

✅ The ICE Cooper gets slight tweaks to the front grille and different alloy wheel designs compared to the EV

http://carindia.in/?p=37551

07/02/2024

The Mahindra XUV400 is Mahindra’s electric SUV, which has already garnered a reputation for performance in the Indian market. Now, Mahindra have given the XUV400 a comprehensive makeover and we got behind the wheel of the updated model in the long-range EL Pro version. You can check out our thoughts on it on our YouTube channel right now!
https://youtu.be/lYwd48IbQ0o
Mahindra Automotive Mahindra XUV400

06/02/2024

Parking is an unavoidable headache when living in a congested city but the MG Comet has made life considerably easier for us. In addition to being able to confidently navigate through roads where it is difficult to drive larger cars, it’s also remarkably easy to park.

Here are a few images of the Comet in conventional parking spots so that you get a reference of what we are on about.

05/02/2024

Citroën are now offering six airbags as standard across their four-car model range in India, comprising the C3, ë-C3, C3 Aircross SUV and C5 Aircross SUV. The six-airbag system consists of front, side and curtain airbags.

The C3 has received four stars in Euro NCAP but zero stars in Latin NCAP for the South American model, equipped with two airbags, which is the one more closely related to the Indian model. The six airbags should go a long way towards improving the safety rating of the vehicle.

The Euro-spec C3 Aircross and C5 Aircross scored 5 and 4 stars, respectively.
Citroën

05/02/2024

Some interesting cars from the first-ever Bharat Mobility Global Expo that was held over the course of three days at the Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

Highlights:
👉🏼 Tata unveiled the Curvv with the 1.5-litre diesel engine and the Harrier.ev that's slated for a launch later.
👉🏼 Mahindra Rise showcased the BE.RALLY-E Concept
👉🏼 Skoda confirmed the Enyaq is coming to India
👉🏼 Hyundai showcased the Nexo that is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell
👉🏼 Mercedes Benz had the Concept EQG on display
👉🏼 Toyota had the very famous Mirai from their global line-up
👉🏼 Lamborghini had the new Revuelto on display as well

03/02/2024

In the cradle of nature, the Western Ghats unfold like a grand stage, offering a mesmerizing panorama for the celebration of love. Ace lensman Arish Patel explores the ghats and Della Adventure & Resorts with the Hyundai Tucson.

https://youtu.be/ijWXI1FIkXc

Hyundai India

The final exquisite location of our three-part series on Indian features the Hyundai Tucson and we decided to venture into ...

02/02/2024

Discover the romance nestled within Maharashtra's Western Ghats in Lonavala as Arish Patel captures love's essence against the backdrop of Della Adventure and Resorts, blending luxury seamlessly with the Hyundai Tucson's elegance.

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Hyundai India

01/02/2024

After covering two tiger reserves in Karnataka, we drove back to Pune. The success of our Great India Drive is largely due to the capable Hyundai Exter.

Despite being compact on the outside, there was enough room inside for our team and luggage. Furthermore, life on the road was made easy thanks to the smooth AMT. That is more than 1,000 km over a span of three days and it went by in a flash.

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01/02/2024

Maruti Suzuki have launched its first-ever SUV experience drive called the Maruti Suzuki ROCK N’ ROAD SUV Experiences, containing both experiential and competitive drive events.

The experiential drives will be called ROCK N’ ROAD Expeditions and ROCK N’ ROAD Weekenders, while The competitive format - ROCK N’ ROAD 4X4 Masters - is aimed to promote off-roading in the country. Led by the Jimny, it will be conducted in two phases – qualifiers in eight different cities and a grand finale.

The first ROCK N’ ROAD Expedition was flagged off from Chandigarh, featuring a convoy of 14 Jimnies that, on the way to Kaza, would traverse through Spiti Valley and pass through Tabo, covering 539 km in six days.
Maruti Suzuki NEXA

31/01/2024

In a sound victory for the staunch minority, the 2024 BMW Z4 and BMW M4 Coupé now get six-speed manual transmissions. Granted, it is only the Z4 M40i Pure Impulse Edition and the base M4 Coupé that gets the manual, but it is better than having no choice but to pick the automatic. Read more: https://carindia.in/?p=37440

BMW BMW M BMW India

31/01/2024

Mercedes also launched the new AMG GLE 53 Coupe

👉🏼 Priced at Rs 1.85 crore (ex-showroom)
👉🏼 Gets a mild hybrid system in addition to the 3.0-litre in-line six cylinder engine
👉🏼 435 hp and 560 Nm of torque from the ICE coupled with the 48-volt mild hybrid system to put out 450 hp and 760 Nm in total
👉🏼 Also gets 7,000 plus customisation options