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Driving Mr. Lazy! (Part II)

As a follow-up to his last post on what makes the perfect chauffeur experience, a travel writer turns the tables and gives us another set of ‘Five Commandments’. But this time for passengers. Because, it is, after all, always a two-way streetâ€¦

Ever since I can remember, there have been two very important maxims that I’ve always tried to live my life by. To paraphrase, one of them is “treat people the way you’d like to be treated” and the other is “a person’s true character is always revealed by the way in which they treat those in the service…

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RAUL DIAS
Driving Mr. Lazy! (Part I)

What makes the perfect chauffeur driven car experience and what are those pet peeves that put one off? As a person who prefers to be driven around, rather than doing the actual drivingâ€”both IRL and on his many jaunts across the worldâ€”a travel writer gives us his very own ‘Five Commandments’ for chauffeurs.

Upfront apologies are due for shamelessly co-opting and tweaking the name of one of my favourite movies of all time—the 1989 Driving Miss Daisy in the header above. In my defense, it not just fits the future contents of this article to the T, but also, it’s so darn ‘punny’. Yes, much to the horror of most…

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RAUL DIAS
Ad Sense

To get you through the fourth week of the lockdown, we bring you seven of the best car ads featuring some great driving machines. Here’s our pickâ€¦

You may or may not be able to buy these beautiful cars, but you can definitely enjoy their ads and gauge for yourself the kind of mettle these cars are made of, and then determine if these are the very cars that you’d like to see parked in your driveway someday. Dodge Nothing spells “Independence”…

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TEAM TOS
Pop Cars (Part II)

To get you through the third week of the lockdown, we pick seven cool songs by some of the greatest women pop singers and bands of all times, featuring the shiniest metal, in the form of cars, in their music videos

This week we continue to bring you seven cool songs that have featured some of the most unforgettable cars in their music videos. Only this time, they're all music videos by some of the most dazzling women out there. Check them out here: 1938 Chevrolet Master De Luxe Business Coupe I drove all night by Cyndi Lauper…

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TEAM TOS
Pop Cars (Part I)

To get you through the second week of the lockdown, we pick seven cool songs by some of the greatest pop/rock bands and music artists featuring the hottest set of wheels in their music videos

There are songs and there are music videos. As soon as the songs start climbing up the charts in their respective countries, and before they go on to become international hits, a music video is often released to cash in on its success and it is this music video, which if shot well, can be…

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TEAM TOS
Road movie tonight?

Here is our pick of seven best road movies, one for each day of the week, to get you through this week of lockdown, the ones that we have enjoyed watching tremendously over the years…

Sure, you miss your car and can’t wait to get behind the wheel to start driving on open roads again. That is something that most of us want to do as well. However, in these testing times of lockdowns, while most of us are cooped up at home, we bring you some of the finest road movies…

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TEAM TOS
Pixel Racing

From high-octane stunts to adrenalin pumping car chases, these top racing titles are worth your money and time

It’s eight pm on a Friday evening and the mood is set at entrepreneur Siddharth Toprani’s apartment at Breach Candy, Mumbai. Games – check, consoles setup – check, accessories connected – check, strong black coffee stocked – check, pizza and beverages ordered – check. It is going to be a long game night for this…

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NASRIN MODAK SIDDIQI
Romancing the Qualis

Toyota, known for its bullet-proof reliability, has millions of buyers worldwide and India isn’t far behind. While Toyota’s recently launched, Vellfire, looks really promising, it is actually their very first offering in India, the Qualis, that started it all, and which continues to have a huge following through a fan club, even 15 years after it was withdrawn. Read on to find out what makes this workhorse so desirable, even today.

Launched in 1999, by the Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd, the Toyota Qualis, based on the Indonesian Toyota Kijang, was an instant hit in the MPV (Multi-Purpose Vehicle) market. It's name was a combination of the words ‘Quality’ and ‘Service,’ and on both fronts it “delivered” for the buyer. Way back then, petrol costed around INR 13…

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BRIAN DE SOUZA
In Design

Three international car designers, Karim Habib (KIA), Lonay Alain (Renault), and Ramon Ginah (Great Wall Motors), tell us about how design is perceived in different parts of the world while giving us a glimpse into the future of car design at the 15th Auto Expo in Greater Noida, India

Lonay Alain, General Manager, Renault Design India, has been living in India for the last three years and working at the Renault Design Studio, opened in Mumbai, in 2008. He believes that the days of “Made in Europe and Sold in Europe” are long gone, and that all the car manufacturers are now looking at…

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RACHNA TYAGI
BOSEMAN (Part IV)

In the final part of our IV-Part series on Pratap Bose, VP, Global Design, Tata Motors, he tells us about the DNA of Tata vehicles, what IMPACT Design is all about, future trends, and how aggression has never been a part of Tata Group’s philosophy

It was a small car, the Tata Indica, that Bose feels was ahead of its time. “If you look at the contemporary global benchmarks in those days, the Indica, was really up there, with all of them.” Today, as a car designer, who has spent 13 years designing cars at Tata Motors, he believes that an important part…

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RACHNA TYAGI