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.
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) is celebrating a significant milestone for its latest product - the Navi. The new bike has achieved its first major sales target and crossed 10,000 units dispatched to buyers.
We drive the new 2016 Ford Mustang GT ahead of its launch later this year in India.
We drive the 2017 Nissan GT-R, better known as Godzilla in Dusseldorf, Germany as the Japanese auto giant brings significant updates to the model and is slated to be introduced in the country later this year.
Like the Creta, the BRV is available in petrol and diesel, and has an automatic option - though just in the petrol. The Creta now offers auto with both engine types.
We drive the all-new Honda BR-V compact SUV to see whether Honda was right in bringing the product to India.
Honda might think it is doing the right thing by bringing the BR-V to India. But does it make sense?
We pit the new Audi Q7 against its closest rivals in the market - the Volvo XC90 and BMW X5 to find out which SUV tops the race.
We drive the all-new Bentley Bentayga in India to see how the world's fastest SUV handles our sweet roads.
Datsun will offer the redi-GO with an AMT (automated manual transmission) option soon.
Jaguar doing an SUV was a foreign concept to begin with. Once we let that idea settle in last year, it was important to understand where Jaguar was coming from on this whole idea, and how it went about it.
One doesn't need a reason to come to New York City really! But the annual New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) sure is a good one! Every year I have found the show growing in prominence, and this year too there have been some significant World and North American debuts at the show. Most of that is skewed towards the American market naturally. But there is still enough here for us to get excited about, and so here are my top picks from the 2016 NYIAS.
Jaguar has announced that this new division will hand build the iconic and definitive car from its history - the Jaguar XKSS once more. The XKSS was often called the world's first supercar.
Toyota is very keen to once again revive its efforts to capture a larger share of the Indian car market.
So how does the car compare with the key rivals? The Vitara Brezza will take on the Mahindra TUV 300 (though that car doesn't necessarily have the exact same buyer profile), but in many ways the real rival is the Ford EcoSport, where the direct competition comes from.
Renault India has confirmed to us that it will be looking at launching multiple variants of the Lodgy soon, in a bid to resuscitate volumes.
It is evident that Renault has gone back to the drawing board a few times to ensure what we get is a well-engineered product that is also reasonably smooth and responsive. The ZF-sourced AMT system has been tweaked to provide the maximum smoothness. The Duster gets a new front grille and very edgy headlamps being the most significant changes. The central console is now finished in piano black with a more solid premium feel. Cabin space and seat comfort are exactly as before good!
The Vitara Brezza draws on Suzukis SUV heritage that has seen limited yet noticeable success the world over with the Vitara nameplate.
BMW unveiled its idea of what the future of its cars would look like with the 'Vision Next 100'. The concept car was formally unveiled today at exactly the same time when 100 years ago the company charter was signed to create BMW.
The Volvo S60 Cross Country is what some would call an ingenious idea and yet others might think it completely bizarre. But that is how most disruptive products are seen when they first come around.
