Listed here are six important points you ought to remember while driving your car on city roads or rural areas. Listening to your favorite music tracks over the mp3 player is fine, but letting your mind slip into dreamland is suicidal. Remember that road safety stands in front of everything else.
Ambulance vans and Fire Brigades are not drag race contestants.
There might be someone in that ambulance who needs help desperately. To him, a minute’s time is vital. Move out of the way if you see the Ambulance with its sirens on in your wing mirrors.
To prevent troubling additional ambulances, use your indicators and move cautiously to the side of the road without harming other motorists. Pull out of the way safely and accelerate back to normal speed once you are clear of the van. The same goes for fire brigades as well.
High beam usage is at times dangerous.
Why use high beam in the city roads at night? How irritated are you when someone in the opposite lane comes flashing with bright light? This is the exact same thing other drivers go through if you switch into high beam. Use it wisely.
Overtaking on two-lane roads is a different ball game
Overtaking maneuvers in narrow lanes is the last thing I want to do in my car. If it is an empty stretch of road, I use my horn and flasher once and go for it. But if it is a busy patch, it needs a more careful approach. Don’t try and play chicken and end up as flesh. You drive sensibly and go home.
Sources have confirmed to us that the Skoda Laura facelift (Skoda Octavia to foriegners) will be launched in India on the 22nd 20th of this month. Engine options are rumored to be no different. The launch function is also said to happen in Mumbai.
VW has released a fresh lot of images and driving footage of the forthcoming VW Polo. The new VW Polo will be built in India at the company’s plant in Pune beginning next year.
The VW Polo has additionally made headlines across Europe for its 13,000 bookings claim a full month before its launch. Analysts accredit the high capacity bookings to the scrappage scheme adopted by governments, who offer benefits in the form of discounts to customers opting in for a new car, trading off their ten year old car.
The VW Polo will be sold in India next year and will be pursued by its sedan variant. Both petrol and diesel variants are said to be on offer from the time of launch.
Just because they are one cylinder smaller, don’t be fooled into thinking they are slow and no go. One glance at the stats prove they are more powerful and torquier than the present family. They would also be lighter and cleaner and should I mention more fuel efficient?
ET reports Honda’ new small car for India would be positioned at a price point below the Jazz, in the scope of the Hyundai i20, Tata Indica Vista and Chevrolet Aveo U-VA. If you have been tuning into IAB regularly, you should have read about it a long time back.
Honda was incapable of bringing down the price of the Jazz which it hopes to launch next month, any further and could have reached this decision.
The new Honda small car will have an intense level of localization. Honda engineers will work closely with suppliers in bringing the cost down. A team of 25 headed by a Japanese official will begin work on everything from manufacturing to purchase. Honda might use its Rajasthan facility which is currently work in progress to produce upto 250,000 units per annum when fully functional.
Sources indicate Tata Motors might introduce Start-stop tech where the engine automatically slips into stand-by in traffic signals saving fuel, in the future. The company has successfully carried out the transplant in the Ace mini truck which has also been introduced initially in the Kolkata market.
Ford has launched a limited edition petrol Ford Fiesta EXi priced at Rs. 5.55 lakhs (ex-showroom Mumbai) with 2 DIN MP3 player, driver seat adjustment and reading lamps.
