Pit Stop

How many times have you looked at a Hot Wheels scale model and wondered how it would be to drive a real car which looks so cool. While you still might not get a chance to do drive the car yourself, Ford racing has released a video of the Hot Wheels Rip Rod concept, ripping across a dry lake bed for your viewing and listening pleasure.

What is the one car you would like to see in your garage? A Porsche? A Bentley? A Bugatti Veyron? A Ferrari? I know of many who would give an arm and a leg to see a Ferrari sitting in their garage. Come to think of it, do you know how you can own a Ferrari hypercar? Well, a big fat cheque and a famous family name to boot is not the answer this time.

It is quite oridnary for our Honda Amaze to do rounds of the Pune Expressway from our CarWale Vashi headquarters to PowerDrift Pune office. But the Diwali day was quite a cracker for our long-termer, the Honda Amaze AT, as we got to drive along with the test mules of the DC Avanti.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar had said, The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. The thoughts soundly echoed by the global automobile market trends today. Behind the steering wheel of car, a whole new world exists and only few can actually put in words, the experience. For things that cannot be expressed there is music. Today, we list five songs that have in some way or the other been inspired by cars, to complete the urban compound.

Sachin Tendulkar, the prolific Indian cricketer and an avid automobile enthusiast inaugurated the go-karting arena Sky Karting a facility of Smaaash Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. The motorsports enthusiasts from the island city of Mumbai and around will be elated to finally have a world class go-karting track in the middle of the city where they can let loose on a track designed specially by the former Italian and European go-karting champion, Paulo Gagliardini.

With the advent of park-assist systems, gone are the days when one has to rely on someone to park his vehicle in a tight spot.

Autonomous cars have been in the news for quite some time now, thanks to experimental efforts from known brands including Volvo, Mercedes-Benz and even internet giant Google. Audi, however, is looking to take the piloted driving technology to race speed as it stages one of the most extreme piloted driving demonstrations to date.

Hyundai, as we know, has embarked on its debut season in the World Rally Championship in 2014 with the i20 WRC. Alongside its participation in what is one of the toughest forms of motorsports, the Korean auto giant has rolled out the first prototype of its next WRC challenger.

It seems the engineering world has much to learn from the world of the Jetsons, a cartoon series that gained popularity in the mid-1980s. Why this reference to cartoons? A Slovakian firm has introduced to the world the AeroMobil, it can fly 430 miles on a tank of petrol and can be parked in a regular parking space. It is a reminder of the car/jet-propelled craft used by the Jetsons in the show.