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.
The 2017 Ford EcoSport was first shown at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show, but is only now beginning to make its market debuts worldwide in recent months. The US gets the EcoSport for the first time only in this avatar, and the car will be made in India for Fords home market.
The new generation Rolls-Royce Phantom combines power with style and elegance rather effortlessly. It is a worthy replacement for an already special car and comes 16 years after the last generation. We have the detailed review.
The Renault Captur is the latest car in the Compact SUV segment in India. It is available in 1.5 litre diesel and petrol. The oil burner is mated to a 6-speed manual gearbox while the petrol comes with a 5-speed.
Pininfarina will become an OEM or manufacturer in the near future when it launches its first product in a few months time. The Italian car design house and coachbuilder - known most famously for its decades-long association with Ferrari. The company was founded in 1930 and is well known for designing some of the iconic Ferrari road models in particular. And now it is making a play for turning from a designer or body specialist to being the builder of cars. The company will launch its range of cars - likely to be exclusively all-electric only models. These will be in the premium segments only, and will essentially be a Tesla rival. And the first car is already under development. India's Mahindra Group acquired Pininfarina in 2015, and its Chairman and Managing Director shared this with me - "We are hoping to build a really high-end, crowd-pleasing Pininfarina electric - that's in the works."
With Suzuki setting up its own battery manufacturing joint venture in Gujarat, Mahindra says it will be open to the Japanese company being its supplier for batteries in the future.
Mahindra Group Chairman and Managing Director Anand Mahindra says for India to attract fresh investment, there must be stability, unlike flip-flops seen in government policy. Mahindra also says industry and government must work together to take on any challenges.
Suzuki will have 750,000 units annual capacity once 3rd plant comes on stream. This takes the Japanese company's total investment in Gujarat to Rs. 13,400 crore.
To invest Rs. 1151 crore for lithium-ion battery plant in Suzuki's existing campus in Gujarat's Hansalpur. The batteries are primarily for use in Suzuki hybrid models, but supply to other OEMs also likely.
The 'Ferrari70' celebration in Maranello was an exclusive affair that championed the race and sports car maker's glorious history in motorsport and its road cars through a combination of special events over its anniversary weekend.
Many car makers including Audi have stated recently that itll be ready to bring in electric cars by 2020 to India but the infrastructure as such is a big problem, a sentiment that even exclusive electric car maker Tesla shared.
Hyundai currently enjoys a 17 per cent market share in India. It is also attempting to try and inch that closer to a 20 per cent share by 2020.
The next-gen Verna is creating quite a buzz. The car has attracted a lot of attention based on its bold styling - sleek lights including the LED DRLs and taillights, huge feature list that boasts seat ventilation and connectivity, and updated engines. But its petrol engine and automatic options are making more noise than expected.
The new 2017 Hyundai Verna arrives well in time to catch the festive season across India, and in typical Hyundai fashion its looks to be another blockbuster. But I have good news for you that is not simply because the new Verna is priced super aggressively its more so because it is, in fact, a great little package of excellent features and good overall performance. Read on to know more!
The Velar has been conceived as a new Range Rover model that will fill the chasm between the smallest Evoque and the larger Sport, to make it a four member family. When I first saw the car this April in New York, I argued whether that gap really needed to be filled to be honest.
The partnership sees no equity in play, and very clearly spells out joint development of a range of 'mid-capacity' motorcycles. In the Indian and largely global contexts that is the 250-500cc space, where Triumph currently has no products.
It is always wonderful to catch up with sporting legend and cricket God Sachin Tendulkar. And when he gets to talking about cars it gets even more special, as he has long held a passion for anything on wheels.
The Gal-Mobile can be effectively used in relief operations during natural disasters like floods and earthquakes. It also has potential for military use in difficult terrain and in rural areas to provide safe drinkable water.
A child enjoying the cool monsoon breeze as he glides around with his head out the sunroof of an SUV - may seem harmless and even fun to many. But it is highly dangerous and irresponsible to allow this.
It's a Ferrari with an engine variant and that's something we've never seen from the manufacturer before. So has it got it right with the GTC4 LussoT? We drive it to know more
The new-gen Honda Amaze subcompact sedan is all set to be launched in India in 2018. The car will make its public debut at the 2018 Auto Expo followed by its launched in the country.
