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1 week ago | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
Not a fan of electrics? Still want to be seen as the saviour of polar bears and Himalayan glaciers? Hybrids now let you have your cake and eat it too. The hell and brimstone of combustion engines along with the deathly silent creep of an . No more waking up your neighbours at 5 in the morning on a Sunday; no more will the strays go nuts chasing you down the street. Whether you like it or not, the new Urus SE will always start in pure EV mode.
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1 week ago | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
In an ideal world this month’s cover stars would have been a natural progression of Mahindra’s leadership in the electric car space, dating back to the acquisition of the pioneering Reva Electric Car Company in 2010.
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1 week ago | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
With the round the corner, now’s a good time to look back at the origins of the nameplate that stretches back to 1988, to the tiny (2 doors, just 3.5 metres long) ladder-frame 4x4 that was first called Escudo in the Japanese market. Designed as a more upmarket replacement to the , it found instant success in Europe, Australia, USA (where it was called Sidekick), and even China where it was smuggled in to bypass import taxes.
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1 week ago | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
My mum loves Jags. Her first job involved selling and . She learnt to drive by wrestling the latter in the desert, so you’ll forgive her harbouring fond memories of only the former in which dad would take her for a drive whenever he could whisk away the boss’s car keys. Years later I continued that tradition, commandeering the keys to test cars (in the days when there was a Jaguar press fleet) to take mum for a drive.
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1 week ago | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
Back in the day we raced whatever we could get our hands on. Ambys, Heralds, and – best suited to the task of going faster in the hideously red tape-bound times – . Back in the day we also had free-for-all racing categories. Group 2 cars in particular weren’t even subject to scrutiny, all they had to do was bear a passing resemblance to the road car and retain the engine head and block.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
The world of EV’s is rapidly evolving and quality concerns can make or break customer trust. Tata Motors has faced its share of challenges, with initial hiccups that left buyers frustrated and questioning the reliability of its EVs. However, in a recent conversation with Anand Kulkarni, chief products officer, TPEM ltd., he sheds light on the concerted efforts the company has made over the past six months to address these issues.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
The Suzuki e Vitara mid-size electric SUV and eAccess electric scooter are set to be unveiled at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 that will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Jan 17. Prior to the Auto Expo, Toshihiro Suzuki, representative director and president of Suzuki Motor Corporation, shares his thoughts on Suzuki’s first ever mass market electric car and electric scooter, Maruti Suzuki’s journey towards electrification and drop hints at the next electric car to come.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
The all-new Mercedes-AMG G 63 now gets a touch screen! Crazy thing to think that up until now the most iconic, the most expensive, the most desirable SUV in the Mercedes-Benz line-up didn’t have a touch screen! You twirled, fiddled and raged against the decade-old COMAND dial to cycle between maps and music on CarPlay – and that’s provided you first plugged in the cable. No longer. The new G 63 AMG barks and shouts and hurls itself into the touchscreen era. And this really is new.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
Fifteen years ago, I said corners are overrated. With the benefit of hindsight, I can confirm that corners aren’t overrated. But you’ve got to put that statement into the perspective of the times. 15 years ago, we didn’t get to test sports cars in India. At the most we’d get like half an hour with a fast car, that too heavily supervised. And then came Audi, with their hero car.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
evoindia.com | Sirish Chandran |Evo India
There is a strong MRF Tyres connection to this rally program with the team’s European Rally Championship driver Martins Sesks drafted in to test and develop the car. Martins will be testing and developing the car in India but J A Motorsport aren’t confining themselves to Indian rallying with the Hyundai i20 project. Plans are afoot to build the Hyundai i20 to Rally 4 and Rally 5 specification and export it to markets around the world.
