its tough.....

talking about its being tough another thing that comes in my mind is the MTV Roadies 5.0 auditions.....the judges Nikhil and Raghu are literally kicking some serious a**es. I get goose bumps while watching every episode.

Reason: Some real dumbo candidates....and two really pi**ed of judges.

I actually saw a signboard in the delhi audition episode or i think it was kolkata...it was placed right outside the audition hall and it said "Beware, judges are in a bad mood today!!"....seriously...the craziest thing to do right now is to show up in a roadies audition right in front of Nikhil and Raghu!!

More Auto Expo Coverage

A little bit more of Expo

National Institute of Design showcases their designs.

Image Courtesy: A very dear, sweet, young lady..!!:)


Rahul puts up his pics taken from his N series nokia

Expo ..reloaded

I have been to pragati maidan before in the last international trade fair.so i knew it's a tiring task to visit a big expo there. I parked my car at CP's MCD parking and took the metro to pragati maidan...considering the traffic jams that any kind of event triggers at pragati maidan. i was there from Gurgaon in 45 mins...a good start!!

Looking for pics?...they are right here!! Tried my best to get close shots everywhere and somehow managed to achieve that. However quite of few of them were blind shots luckily coming good. My personal favorite is the angle i got for the MT-01's dashboard. Again, there sre some pics in portrait mode, please flip them to see becuase that was the only way i could have got what i wanted in the pic.



all-in-all a nicely managed expo considering the daily turn-out there. TATA's pavillion was raising hell as expected.

Talking about TATA and NANO, here's what i have heard ....a survey was conducted with Auto-Rikshaw drivers/owners, most of them said, if given permission they would like to replace their Autos with Nano. The reason, an auto rickhsaw costs around 3 lakhs(i wonder how) and this car goes for 1 lakh, with seating capacity a bit more. Now did i hear someone say "Nano..The People's Car" :))!!

Skoda and Chevrolet did some nice presentations, Hyundai was spot-on and meant business, Maruti was a bit messy but it was really nice to see M800 phoenix.....they are raising it from ashes or what?? SX4 sport is really sporty.

No one was allowed inside BMW area...touch me not huh?....anyways..nice cars!! Volvo cars with their really heavy duty engines are making inroads for sure. Mahindra goes for an automatic transmission scorpio.

Honda was good and nicely arranged. Hero Honda pavillion was a bit strange ..and kind of disappointing....bajaj was quite modest but right on...suzuki, yamaha, honda all went all-out on bikes.

Mahindra and Renault were doing quite good....The long queue for GM pavillion was awesome...and they didnt disappoint once you are in. Missed the Yamaha Roxx concert..it went house full in a jiffy.

Royal Enfield's Small outdoor stall fitted right in the Enfield Spirit with dirty and rugged looking bikes put on show.It was nice. I'll wait for the day when Harleys make their debut at an Auto Expo in india.

I was supposed to visit the expo on saturday itself but some work popped up in office for saturday. So re-planned it with Rahul and Nishit for sunday. Will share more pics as both of them put their cell phone cams to good use.

Ads ....without stars....

now.... on TV nowadays its pretty hard to find an ad jingle without a Movie or a cricket star in it..so when you actually come across such ads (without any star).....you actually cant help noticing it. I came across a couple of them recently..and they made me realize how we blindly follow stars and whatever they say in those ads. They become icons through them and what they do for us ..is actually make us buy those stuff and add some overhead on our monthly budget.

First one:

Its new on-air and has that indian appeal and emotion blended in it..in short ...the right stuff for indian masses. There is another interesting thing with this jingle...many reliance mobile users were surprised one fine morning to find this jingle set as the dialer tone for their numbers. Many liked it ...some got annnoyed..but a nice marketing idea!!



one of the finest jingles ever...i'll put it right next to the "Humara Bajaj" and Cadbury's "kuch khaas hai" jingles.

Second one:

This one traces back to 2006 and was termed one of the funniest ads ever..a must must watch....!!

Nano technology

well..well...well!!

there goes the neighbourhood....

....india now has a car with ex-showroom price of 1 Lakh. Now thats some Nano technology.

Ratan Tata drove this baby in front of a packed media crowd at Auto Expo in New Delhi. An emotional Ratan Tata drove the car to the podium and said, “This is what I have for you. A promise is a promise, it will cost Rs 1 lakh ex-showroom.”






3 variants: 1 base model which actually costs 1 Lakh and 2 Deluxe models.

three-cylinder 624-800 cc petrol engine with 33 bhp of power.

30-litre fuel tank and four-speed manual gearshift.

air conditioning, but no power steering.

front disk and rear drum brakes.

The company claims mileage of 22 kmpl in city and 26 kmpl on highway.


Now this is supposed to really put some black clouds over new upcoming hatchbacks and small segment cars like Skoda's Fabia. Maruti already looks like surrendering, Huyundai is strangely silent and bajaj has already announced a similar concept car. Now thats quite a hussle!! Whats gonna happen to 2-wheeler market is hard to imagine going forward. What i can imagine is that every "second" car if there is any in any indian middle class home will be the Rs 1 Lakh Car. There will always be a doubt in anyone's mind whos planning to buy a two wheeler or a 150-200 CC segment bike, whether to buy the bike or go for the lakhtakiya.

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Wanted!!

A sheep or a wolf!!??



Love the swinging bullet sequence!!...Amazing!!

Suzuki.....bringing it on...

Now Suzuki goes the yamaha way but with a different attitude.....the CKD approach.....hmmm...interesting...
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