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Doing without convenience
Automotive technology has come a long way in the past two decades but is there any modern convenience you could do without? The automobile has been around for a 125 years now, and ever since Bertha Benz, the pioneering wife of the car’s inventor Karl Benz demonstrated that a vehicle could...
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Flying with a broken wing
26 March 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
A licence to speed
09 March 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Still the best
01 March 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Why A380 couldn’t take off
25 February 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
A Civic lesson
22 February 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Comfortable cruiser
15 February 2019 | Kushan Mitra -
Law of unintended returns
11 February 2019 | Kushan Mitra
Impressive is the word
The Mahindra XUV300 ticks all the boxes and if the price gets right, this could change the market Back in 2006, me and a couple of friends had gone on a road trip from Mumbai down to the Kerala beachside town of Alappuzha. This was a drive that I will always...
Election Budget
Piyush Goyal delivered his first Budget in the Lok Sabha, and while it was an Interim Budget, it was that in all but name. With sops and allocations increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hand was all over this Budget. Even with recalculated figures that display some growth, evidence of that...
The tallest boy
The third-generation Maruti WagonR is a lot nicer than you expect it to be, indeed it is one of most practical Maruti cars available today The Maruti-Suzuki WagonR was never a car that you ever called sexy. Back in 1999, when the first version of the car was launched, it came...
‘BS-6 highest priority for us in 2019’
As Mercedes-Benz India launches their new V-Class people carrier, newly appointed managing director Martin Schwenk joins The Pioneer’s Kushan Mitra for an exclusive interaction What are Mercedes-Benz’ plans for India in 2019? Well, we start today and it is a very strong start to 2019 with a new car in a new...
The SUV conundrum
Once upon a time car companies clearly defined line-ups of products but nowadays everything is a bit more confusing So you want to buy a luxury Sports Utility Vehicle? It might never go off-road in its life. Heck, it might never leave metaled roads all its life but you like the...
A tiny market
The sales figures have come in, and while several luxury car manufacturers have had great years, the Indian market is still minuscule All the luxury car brands in India have declared their sales figures for 2018; and sales in the luxury car segment are reflective of the sales figures in...
The end of civility
The past few months have been an indication that the 2019 general election is going to be a vicious one, fought as much on social media and messaging groups as much on the field On the face of it, the new year, according to the Western Gregorian calendar, is a very...
