About Sumant Banerji

A self professed lover of all things mobile, the ones that operate on a tarmac are by far Sumant Banerji’s favourite. An aspiring automobile engineer at one point of time, he dumped the science for the art of making a car and landed up in a newspaper office. Ever ready for a spin on the road be it in a Nano or a beemer, his best kept secret remains roaming around the car bazaars of Karol Bagh and Sadar Bazar and shaking hands with grease tainted mechanics.

“A B C D Chaida Mainu, Vadi Biddi Chaida Mainu
CTV bhi Chaida Mainu, LCD Bhi Chaida Mainu
Laal Mercedes Chaidi Mainu, Laal Qila Bhi Chaida Mainu”

And so goes the title track of Dibakar Banerjee’s 2008 hit Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. [Read more]

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Back in January, a very high ranking official with Mahindra & Mahindra, country’s largest utility vehicle maker, wrote a confidential mail to his boss and the firm’s Vice Chairman, Anand Mahindra. This mail talked about how good the Maruti Ertiga, which was being showcased at the Delhi Auto Expo as a production version, was. It also had a veiled warning that the company needed to prepare itself for the onslaught. [Read more]

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It’s been out in the market for a good 16 months and generally that is enough to decide whether a car has hit the bull’s eye or not. The Toyota Etios though, is a curious case. [Read more]

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The dreaded tax on diesel cars never came in the budget. What came instead is increased taxes on all cars and a promise of numerous fuel price hikes this year. Surely there wont be any stopping for diesel car launches now… [Read more]

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Ever since Google started working on its project on driverless cars, or cars that can almost drive itself, many people have wondered whether such a car is the perfect gift for Indian roads. [Read more]

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