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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A & D

Was listening to the soundtrack of Angels and Demons and it actually turned out to be a typical hans zimmer product.

Hans hit the bulls eye with Chaveliers de sangreal in Da vinci code and he has done it again with 503 in this one.

I have already seen some glimpses of the movie (thanks to widespread piracy :)!!) but its gonna be worth watching when it hits the theaters (hopefully!!) on May 29th in india.

Wifey has read the book and says that if its anywhere near the book..its going to be a hell of a movie.



About reading books...i remember reading The Bourne Legacy a while ago (Yea..!!I actually read a book!!) and i have heard that the next bourne movie is due in 2010...lets see how close that turns out. Going by last three movies...they were never close to the book but turned out amazing.

Monday, May 18, 2009

Pretentions indeed!!

I wasnt that sure about Ritz after a huge disappointment from A-Star but still dropped by the MS showroom on saturday on our way.
The car:

- The quick intital look at all 4 sides suggests nothing new. The headlights are getting bigger and deeper and feels like a design idea being pushed to its limits and its about time when it will get discarded by everyone.
- The rear looks like someone actually trimmed it using a chainsaw. I opened the rear door and top of my head was actually touching the top half of the opened door. Boot space? even i10 has a slighly bigger space.
- Cockpit/dashboard looks raw, very raw. Looks like assembled in hurry and without any thought behind it.
- Driver's seat, has same amount of seating and leg space as that of i10. I felt nothing new in the very short-inside campus-low speed-test drive, but did give the paddle a very short boost and the response was nothing extraordinary.
Eventually I got the answer to one of my questions:

Question: why so aggresive pricing?
Answer: its not aggresively priced, its actually worth that much only.
Nothing special, nothing at all!!
And that pops another question for me:

Question: whats the sense of having this car in market where a swift revamp would have been a better option?
Back home drive in my i10 and wifey says: for the first time after a test drive i feel my car being more spacious!!

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Ritz!!...the Pretentious one?!!

Pretentious display is the dictionary meaning of Ritz.
Ritz is the name of the newest A-2 segment hatchback which is getting launched on 15th.
Only after having a look it can be decided whether the displays are indeed pretentious or not :)


The car anyways has a first ever attached to it. It will be the first car in india with BS-IV compliance.
The diesel variant has the super-successful 1.3 litre, 16-valve DDiS, 75PS Diesel engine and the petrol one has the new K-series 1.2 litre, four-cylinder, 85PS Petrol engine.
Its the 7th horse in the stable for MSIL in the A-2 segment which has competition from i10,i20,fabia,palio,indica vista and fusion.
Dont know why it got renamed to Ritz from its original concept Splash.
It better not have a boot like A - Star and the rear windows better be ummm....larger!