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  • Drove through water, engine stalled

    The ingress into the cabin happened when it was realized that the car was in the middle of the road and my dad decided to step out to call someone to push the car towards a side for now - The car…
  • Tyre cut : Fix or replace?

    Recently on a Mumbai-Kolhapur drive I discovered a cut on the front right tyre, the cut is not deep & tyre is not losing air. I made a return trip from Kolhapur to Mumbai without any issues. Spoke…
  • Grand Vitara | 150000 km & 14 yrs

    My Grand Vitara completed 14 years and 150,000kms as of this month. It is a major milestone. A milestone I never expected to reach with any of my 12 cars in 28 years. But a Japanese CBU was able to…
  • Review: Ducati Multistrada 1260S

    It was only when I was back home did the enormity of what had just happened hit me. I had finally found a bike which was loaded to the gills on tech, carried 160 bhp (Yummy!), looked like a supermodel,…
  • Jack broke, Jeep Compass falls!

    Now, he picked up the spare tyre and moved towards the vehicle to install it. Lo & behold, he hears a metal cracking sound from his original Jeep supplied jack! Jack breaks and Compass falls right…
  • I became State Champion (cycling)

    So ... yesterday I became State Champion in the Men 50+ age category in the 4-day 2nd Maharashtra Masters Games held at Indapur. This means I now get to race for Maharashtra (hopefully in the official…
  • Review: 2021 Toyota Fortuner

    According to me Fortuner is very much rock-solid and way much oriented towards the way it is to driven. I had driven the 4x4 Fortuner with 178 BHP 2.8L Diesel but now it was time to drive the 2.8…
  • Life with an Aprilia RSV4 RF

    So I thought of using this opportunity to do some work on the bike. I finally took the plunge to get a set of race fairings - I got them from Carbonin, a Slovenian company that makes fairings for…
  • TVS Apache RTR build quality woes

    I kind of knew that TVS was not known for the quality of products that they offer, as my sister owned a scooty in the year 2008 and that was poorly built as well. What surprised me the most was the…
  • Road-trip in my new Tata Safari

    I was extremely happy with my steed. In small, short trips around the city, the Mystic stallion , as I call it, proved more than adequate. But deep down, I knew I had not tested the real potentials…
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