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Indian cars no longer dependent on foreign designs. Maruti promises to boost it further

Kushan Mitra - 17 August, 2022

Maruti needed to match up to Creta and Seltos. Grand Vitara’s first feel is impressive

Hyundai’s new Tucson comes loaded to the gills. Its style and power match the price

White, green, blue but not orange or purple — How your car finds its colour

Pandemic, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, naysayers —Kia Motors entered India and beat all

Kushan Mitra - 7 August, 2022

Kia Motors claims to have sold over 5 lakh cars in India in just under 3 years. With new EV6 lined up, will the future be as electric for the Korean company?

Dear Indian parents, don’t drive with kids in your lap. Child seats are easily available

Kushan Mitra - 3 August, 2022

It is shocking that few Indian kids today are in child seats. And it is not a question of affordability or non-availability of seats.

Dropped my son to school in an Audi RS7. Came back with a lesson on sustainable development

Kushan Mitra - 31 July, 2022

The 12-km journey in RS7 took three litres of fuel generating around 7 kg of carbon dioxide. A fully grown tree absorbs about 21 kg of CO2 every year.

Suzuki Kizashi, Honda Civic, Premier Rio—carmakers know when to pull the plug on bombs

Kushan Mitra - 27 July, 2022

India's automobile industry is full of failures, in the case of both big and small carmakers. The good thing is they learn from each other.

Ford India rolls off production line. But the beginning of its end started a decade ago

Kushan Mitra - 24 July, 2022

Those who blamed the Narendra Modi government for Ford’s untimely demise as a manufacturer in India should look at Kia and Hyundai's success over the past three years.

What is love? Impractical. So is Mini Cooper SE

Kushan Mitra - 20 July, 2022

The Mini SE is more impractical than the regular petrol or diesel version because it has just 160-200 kilometers of range on a full charge.

Music, phone, tyre pressure, cruise – your car steering manages all these & turns the wheel too

Kushan Mitra - 17 July, 2022

Steering wheels have come a long way in the past couple of decades ever since steering-mounted controls became a thing in the late 1990s on top-end luxury cars.

AMT, IMT, CVT, DCT — why you must know your automatic car before you buy one

Kushan Mitra - 13 July, 2022

Over 10% of all passenger cars sold in India had some form of automatic transmission or another. But all automatics are not created equal.

Remember Skoda’s Laura? Car names can go horribly wrong and no one wants to be bold anymore

Kushan Mitra - 10 July, 2022

Not just lawyers, in order to avoid a repeat of the ‘Laura incident’, most car companies employ teams of linguists across the world.

New Brezza is not just a facelift. Maruti-Suzuki has worked to make it tough

Kushan Mitra - 6 July, 2022

I drove the automatic variant and it felt a bit languid on the open road. Prices start from Rs 8 lakh and go up to Rs 14 lakh for the automatic dual-tone variant.

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Revadi jibe shows Modi govt letting its insecurities do the talking, not economics

Subhasish Ray - 19 August, 2022

Why exactly should the Prime Minister be worried about the welfare model of an opposition party that barely controls two state governments?

What Left parties’ decision to not join Bihar alliance means for India’s Dalits, women, MBCs

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Don’t just ‘keep a watch’ on China’s spy ship at Sri Lankan port. Emulate the enemy

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Good news from the farm as India’s FY22 foodgrain production estimated at record 316 mn tonnes

Sayantan Bera - 17 August, 2022

Wheat production estimate sees marginal upward revision to 106.8 million tons, though current rate lowest in 3 years.

Dashboard

Indian cars no longer dependent on foreign designs. Maruti promises to boost it further

Maruti needed to match up to Creta and Seltos. Grand Vitara’s first feel is impressive

Hyundai’s new Tucson comes loaded to the gills. Its style and power match the price

White, green, blue but not orange or purple — How your car finds its colour

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Revadi jibe shows Modi govt letting its insecurities do the talking, not economics

What Left parties’ decision to not join Bihar alliance means for India’s Dalits, women, MBCs

Don’t just ‘keep a watch’ on China’s spy ship at Sri Lankan port. Emulate the enemy

Economy

Good news from the farm as India’s FY22 foodgrain production estimated at record 316 mn tonnes

Defence

Russia wants to build next generation tanks, submarines with India

National Interest

Tiranga vs Tiranga: Gloves are off as Kejriwal joins the ‘nationalism’ battle with Modi

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