Former senior primetime news anchor, financial correspondent, producer, and Chief Editor-Auto – Siddharth has worn many hats during his many years at NDTV. He conceived all the automobile based content for the NDTV network - including the annual carandbike Awards, and used to head the Auto Prime band of programming launched in 2014. He was a key driver behind carandbike.com – already the country's 2nd largest auto portal. Siddharth also created India’s biggest auto quiz, which ran for 7 seasons – the Mahindra AQ. Besides all this, Siddharth is the first Asian journalist to be appointed as a Director on the Steering Committee for the prestigious World Car Awards in 2016. He has served on that jury since 2011, and is now Executive Director of World Car Awards since 2020. He is also Editor-in-Chief of carandbike.
SUVs are gaining momentum, and their popularity is starting to show in many ways previously unthinkable. Just as the Jeep Compass and Renault Captur won the two top Car of the Year awards at the annual NDTV Car and Bike awards, so too are a host of SUVs leading the charge at the World Car Awards the past two years.
Hyundai has played it safe, perhaps given how popular the car already is, and how well accepted its looks are. So while you do get several styling changes, they are largely subtle.
VW Chairman says India offers potential for not just the sale of electric cars in the future, but also a great test bed for congested city usage. But still its electric mobility chief rules out prioritising India for VWs immediate soon-to-market electric products.
It is the ultimate flagship sedan that has been a benchmark for some years now. And so when it gets its mid-cycle update the expectations do go sky-high.
Volvo Cars boss Hakan Samuelsson has been honored by the World Car Awards with its inaugural World Car Person of the Year award at the ongoing Geneva Motor Show.
With several car and bike manufacturers giving the Auto Expo 2018 a miss, we ran a poll to determine, which brand of both four-wheelers and two-wheelers were most most missed by visitors.
The World Car of the Year Award is a prestigious prize that is bestowed on the best in the industry. The finalists for 2018 have been announced and the top three will be declared soon. We take a look at all those cars who have made the cut
The new Rolls-Royce model which finally takes the luxury brand into the SUV space will be called Cullinan. It is named after the Cullinan Diamond - a 3106 carat stone that was found in a South African mine in 1905. The Cullinan Diamond is one of the largest flawless diamonds ever found. Rolls-Royce had hidden the new model's name in plain sight it would seem - since it had named the entire plan for the SUV Project Cullinan from the start!
Bollywood star and action man John Abraham is Yamaha brand ambassador and was at the 2018 Auto Expo to debut the all new Yamaha R3, but he instead had his eye on a different bike on the Yamaha stand.
Toyota Kirloskar took the covers off its brand new offering for India, the Toyota Yaris compact sedan, which is set to launch in mid 2018. Launching in 1.5 litre petrol only, and will compete head-on with Honda City, Maruti Suzuki Ciaz, Hyundai Verna.
We recently got to drive the 3rd generation Swift from Maruti Suzuki India and here's our detailed review of the car. Along with new design, styling and a host of updated features, the new 2018 Maruti Suzuki Swift also packs an automatic or AGS option this time, in both petrol and diesel versions.
The Lamborghini Urus will likely be a huge game changer for not just the Italian sports car maker itself but the entire luxury and premium set. The Urus straddles the worlds of the SUV, the coup-crossover, the sports car and the luxury car. It is not going to be cheap to buy, and yet is expected to be sold out even before its launch in most markets. India is one of them, where Lamborghini sources say the buyers for the first allocation of units for 2018 are already stitched up. The Urus will launch in India on January 11 2018 in Mumbai.
Siddharth has been teasing us with a stupid grin as he was at the Autodromo do Estoril or Estoril circuit in Cascais, Portugal recently to drive the latest 6th generation BMW M5 which debuted just a few weeks back at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, and has over 600 horses and 750 Nm of torque to play with. Here's the review - on track and on tarmac.
The Suzuki Swift hybrid - like all hybrids - moves seamlessly from electric to petrol power. It is nice when the car glides along silently in pure EV mode, and there is an EV indicator light telling me that I was just using battery power alone, and the internal combustion engine is switched off.
The Suzuki Swift Sport recently made its debut at the Frankfurt Show this fall and I am happy to be amongst the first to have driven it. The car with me looks the part in its flamboyant yellow paint, and with the embellishments that scream Sport.
Mahindra's eventual intent is to eventually get to becoming a full-fledged manufacture of a variety of vehicles. But for starters, Mahindra is positioning itself as a niche provider of specialty, purpose-built vehicles.
The petrol and diesel Jeep Compass look identical of course. And the same holds true for the interior save for the auto gearshift!
The compact sedan segment has received a booster shot with the arrival of the next gen Hyundai Verna. We pit it against the segment's two bestsellers - Maruti Suzuki Ciaz and Honda City.
The car sold over 5000 units in October, leading its segment once again two months running. It helped Hyundai get close to 50,000 units in the festive month.
Ford has reintroduced the EcoSport with a facelift after making us wait for a very long time. Since debuting at the LA Auto Show last year, the new EcoSport has been the talk of the town since we exclusively unveiled it on carandbike.com. Now, the new EcoSport gets three drivetrains, and we have driven all three. Here's what we think of Ford's new EcoSport.
