CarWale Buying Guide: Used Toyota Innova

Introduction    It is quite difficult to fathom that the Toyota Innova is over a decade old. Sure, there have been a few updates along the way but the popular MPV has stayed in pretty much the same shape and yet it now costs (the top-spec trim does anyway) nearly...

May 1, 2025

CarWale Buying Guide: Hyundai Eon

Introduction It’s always easier to make a large car with wide margins and big limits. Good examples of this are hyper cars which are extravagant for the sheer numbers they are made up of. But what happens when you are given a tight set of criteria to work within? The...

May 1, 2025

CarWale Buying Guide to: A used Mahindra Scorpio

Introduction   In a country where ‘badaa hai toh behtar hai’ is the mantra for all things from lassi glass to cars, the Mahindra Scorpio then fits the description alright. It has seen its glory days when the options for extra large SUVs were limited and pockets not so deep....

May 1, 2025

Audi Q7 vs Volvo XC90 vs BMW X5: Spec Comparison

Introduction    Audi India has finally introduced us all to an all-new generation of the Q7 and while this 2015 model is leagues better than what it replaces, it’s got to face some old and newfound competition. With ex-showroom prices between Rs 72 lakh and Rs 77.5 lakh, the new...

May 1, 2025

Porsche Sport Driving School Dubai

Introduction ‘Phone rings’Me-Hi VikrantVikrant-Venkat, I’m sending you to Dubai. Porsche is conducting its sport driving school experience and I want you to attend and improve your driving. Me- holding poker face and voice-Okay superb, I’m very excited thanks for the opportunity. Vikrant- Excellent now go and become a better driver!...

May 1, 2025

CarWale Buying Guide: Hyundai Xcent

IntroductionIt seemed just like yesterday that all of us were sitting around in our hotel in Noida just ahead of the 2014 Auto Expo and discussing the cars that would be shown. Among the lot was the Hyundai Xcent whose looks were praised but the name was invariably mocked through a...

May 1, 2025

7 reasons for Santa to ditch his sleigh this Christmas

Introduction   It is that time of the year again, the holidays are here and everyone is celebrating. As the year comes to close, the highlight of the holidays is obviously Christmas (December 25th); a day involving family time, good food and of course unhinged commercialism in the form of...

May 1, 2025

2016 Tokyo Auto Salon Preview

2016 Tokyo Auto Salon    The motor show season is looming on the horizon as we look forward to seeing a bunch of new cars and concepts from the Detroit Motor Show and Tokyo Auto Salon in January. While we have already talked about India-bound cars that are to be...

May 1, 2025

How to plan your first solo road trip in a car

Off to a start  “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”, words famously said by Lao Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher. Well, I believe that the ‘single step’ he was referring to is planning. With the New Year off to a great start, long weekends...

May 1, 2025

Honda Drive to Discover 6: From Jodhpur to Jaisalmer

Honda Drive To Discover 6    Having covered nearly 1,000km after plenty of driving, shuffling between playlists and relishing the dusty yet mystical plains of Rajasthan, I’m back in Mumbai and less than an hour from home. Although settled quietly in the back of a cab, the maddening traffic and...

May 1, 2025

How NOT to be a part of a 25 car pileup

Driving in fog    As you may have read in the papers recently, a major pileup on NH1 involving up to 25 vehicles resulted in the death of 4 people and multiple injuries, all because of low visibility under foggy conditions. All four deceased were travelling in one car that...

May 1, 2025

The Underrated: Hyundai Elantra vs Renault Lodgy Stepway vs Tata Safari Storme

The Underrated The underrated. Sounds like a Hollywood flick from the 90s wherein scrawny teenagers from an unknown town take on the best in the country in some sort of a sport championship. NFL, NBA, ABC, XYZ; it doesn’t really matter. What’s important is that these kids fight against all...

May 1, 2025

Baja SAE India: Proving grounds for young engineers

Introduction   As I touched down at Indore, a gust of memories flew right across my mind. The memories that date back to the winter of 2009. No, not like the summer of ’69. My memories have torque wrenches and grease and swollen eyes from the welding sessions. Back then...

May 1, 2025

Mercedes-Benz WINNING! Book Review

Mercedes-Benz WINNING! Book Review Mercedes-Benz Winnings! is a book for the true three-pointed aficionado. Written and compiled by veteran motoring writer Adil Jal Darukhanawala, the book takes you through the 120 year history of Mercedes and its accomplishments in the field of motorsport.   Adil, who has played a significant...

May 1, 2025

Celebrating 100 years of BMW: Top 7 greatest BMWs of all time

Top 7 greatest BMWs of all time    As it turns out, the world can never have too many impeccably put together cars that are also fun to drive and it’s the Germans, more than anyone else, who seem to have figured what most of us want. Take BMW, for...

May 1, 2025