How to sit in a car


Driver
For a driver getting his/her seating position right is extremely important. Too upright and you’ll end up with a backache. Too sloppy and you risk being lethargic. Keep your seat back slightly tilted. Adjust your seat such that with the brake pedal is fully depressed with your right foot and your thighs should only just be off the seat’s front edge. If your steering wheel can be adjusted for rake and reach too, try keeping your arms just slightly bent at the elbows as shown to avoid unnecessary stretching.

Swift Dzire


Despite Maruti’s Manesar plant being shut for a while, demand for the Swift DZire has been stronger than ever, resulting in longer waiting periods for the car. 

To reduce the waiting period, Maruti Suzuki has put the first generation Swift DZire (now available as the 'DZire Tour' for the taxi market) on sale for private car buyers. 

The first generation Maruti Suzuki Swift DZire with its spacious interiors and 440-litre boot is one of the most practical and value for money propositions. However, the Swift DZire Tour is available only in a basic trim so you get only power steering and air conditioning as standard features. Shell out around Rs 10,000 more and Maruti will upgrade the car with all the features of an LXi/LDi spec such as body coloured bumpers, door handles, boot handle and a left side ORVM.  

The Swift DZire Tour has been priced at Rs 4.89 lakh (petrol) and Rs 5.91 lakh (diesel), ex-showroom, New Delhi for private car buyers. That’s Rs 1,000 cheaper than the new-gen Swift LXi and Swift LDi. The Swift DZire in Tour spec then is an interesting alternative for private car buyers. 

Free style


The top ten in the FreeStyle 'Class of 2012 was rounded out by Jon Shipley, of Hoosier Daddy Choppers of Bloomfield, Indiana with 'Whiskey Bent', a 1977 Ironhead Sportster engined, Dirty South Choppers Pro-Street style rigid retro chopper

steelbird


Steelbird is aiming to cash in on the booming two-wheeler Indian market by opening its first Riderz Shop retail outlet at Karol Bagh, New Delhi. The Riderz Shop is a one stop shop for bikers, with  a range of helmets, jackets and suits, gloves, goggles and pannier boxes in store.

Steelbird helmets are designed in technical collaboration with Bieffe. It has unveiled its first carbon fibre helmet that has been designed in-house and costs Rs 13,000,  the most expensive helmet from an Indian manufacturer.

Steelbird Managing Director Rajeev Kapur said, “Our objective is to provide best quality riding gear with a huge range of products at the doorstep of the consumer. We shall keep introducing new and hi-tech biking gear in due course of time in these shops.

maruti launches limited edited wagonR Pro


Maruti Suzuki has quietly rolled out yet another limited edition car, the ‘WagonR Pro’. This limited edition WagonR is essentially a spruced up Wagon R LXi with a clutch (13 to be precise) of accessories thrown in. 

According to Maruti, the accessories are worth Rs. 30,000, which is roughly the price difference between a regular WagonR and the limited edition one. The goodies don’t end there. Maruti is also offering a 32-inch Sony Bravia LCD television free to all WagonR buyers. Customers can either opt for the TV or take a cash discount on the car. For WagonR Pro buyers, this discount comes to Rs. 22,000 plus and an additional cash discount of Rs. 11,000.

The WagonR Pro limited edition has been priced at Rs. 4.50 lakh (on-road New Delhi) but with the discounts taken into account, the effective price comes to Rs. 4.17 lakh (on-road New Delhi).

New Toyota Camry Launched

Looking to make its best-selling luxury sedan more affordable to the masses, Toyota has re-worked its Camry model on a variety of fronts and more importantly now begun assembly operations for the same here in India. We take a closer look at what the Camry's new age mould has in store for interested buyers and Toyota aficionados all over the country

1948 Norman Timbs Emil Diedt Roadster

1948 Norman Timbs Emil Diedt Roadster at Pebble Beach 2012

Horch 1937

.Displayed along the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links, the Horch was described by Concours Chairman Sandra Button to be an "incredibly beautiful open car with stunning styling."

roadmaster 1940

The Buick Super was a full-sized automobile produced from 1940-1942, and from 1946-1958. It was built on Buick's longer wheelbase shared with the Roadmaster.

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

4.5 blower bentley 1929



The ex-Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin 1929 4½ litre supercharged 'Blower' Bentley, which when new raised the Brooklands Outer Circuit record to 222.03 kmph, sold for £5,042,000 (Rs 43.46 crore) at an auction

Bently boys 1920


Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin was a baronet who became one of the most famed of the legendary “Bentley Boys” of the 1920s – 30s

charcoal car

I stumbled on this odd photo the other day on the Green Car Congress blog. It’s a photo of a vintage 1938 3.5 LiterOpel being displayed at a 2006 Frankfurt car show. The novelty here is that the Opel didn’t run on petrol – it was100% charcoal powered back in the day.

1948 Mercedes Benz Unimog


Mercedes-Benz celebrates 105 years of 4X4 : In Pictures!

benz 1907 (first four wheeler)

2012 marks the 105th anniversary of the first four wheel drive commercial car made by Mercedes Benz. The ‘Derburg-Wagen’ first rolled out in 1907 and had four wheel steering in addition to four wheel drive and was powered by a 6.8 litre engine producing 35 PS. Here are some cars which benefit from the technologies introduced more than a century ago even today

Rafik Kaissi's 1000cc Aprilia engine

Rafik Kaissi's 1000cc Aprilia engined 'RK Thing' came in ninth place

good night

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1929 The royal Imdian car

It is all about luxury and movement combined, about trappings of a kind where Indian clientele ruled the roost, at least in the first half of the last century and this reign threw up some of the most stunning, and not to say exquisite automobiles the world has ever seen. Given India’s place in the global scheme of things, and with a booming automotive industry, it was always when and not if for an event such as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance to have a class for cars of the Maharajas. Today and tomorrow, on the hallowed turf at Pebble Beach in California, we will have no less than 16 to 18 of the greatest Maharaja cars assembling together to celebrate both the vain and the glorious, a bit of the former and quite a load of the latter.