Tata NANO

Six years ago Ratan Tata told people that he is going to give Indian road-goers a gift in the form of a 1 lakh rupee car. And that dream comes true on march 23, when Tata officially launched the Indian people's car "Tata NANO". We are seeing this as a revolution, which was created by Fiat 500 in Italy and by VW Beetle in Germany. This tiny dream car got a puny 624 cc, parallel twin which outputs a healthy 33 bhp and as it is a real wheel drive car, drivability is quite good. The main concern was the saftey, whcih Tata adderessed very well with passing all crash tests. For the people's peace of mind I will say, this car is as safe and unsafe as any other car on Indian roads.
Delivery will be started from July and as per promise, first 1 lakh costumers will get the car at a 1 lakh ex-showroom price. There are three variants base, Cx and Lx. Lx is top of the line variant and comes loaded with an effective A/C, central locking, body colored bumpers and side mirrors.

TVS troubled again: Now the cause is Apache RTR 160

TVS is now again in a dispute with Bajaj on a patent issue. First smackdown was on the TVS Flame's twin spark engine and now on the "ExhausTEC" technology, on which Bajaj got a patent in March 2009. Bajaj is saying that they saw the use of their ExhausTEC technology in "TVS Apache RTR", which is not fair by any means according to Bajaj as they got the Patent of this technology. The function of ExhausTEC is to increase the Low and Mid range torque, which was evolved by Bajaj in 2004.

BMW's M mantra: Now in SUVs

At New York Auto Show BMW unveils the M-form of its two heavy weight SUVs or we can say SAVs, X5 and X6. Both are now equipped with the uprated versions of the 4.4 ltr twin-turbocharged V8, which we saw last year in X6 and new BMW 750 Li. Because of the M decal printed on the back, power increased significantly from 400 hp to 550 hp and torque reaches from 450 to 500 lb-ft. We hope that BMW will be kind and we will be able to see that fire power on Indian roads soon.