The Micra Experience

the Nissan Group , Mangalore in association with the T.APAI MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE ( TAPMI) organised a "Car Park challenge" today at the KMC food court. i was very much willing to participate because since the past few days i wanted to drive a car ( mine is back home in delhi) and voila it was here

but sadly the only problem was the timings, my class would start at 1300, whereas the event started at 1200. but i took my chances( as i love driving ) and went for it. i completed the challenge in one go and became the first in the day to do so , so i was offered to test drive the new Nissan Micra. my mind was jumbled cuz my wish had come true.

i took this opportunity and drove around manipal(since i had never done that before). from the lake, to syndicate circle to the end point everywhere. a sexy feeling to drive that powerfull monster which was very silent as well. what a perfect start to the day.
i was given a Nissan tshirt and a few more goodies. but unfortunately the t-shirt is too large (L) for me.

hahaha

fighting gravity

i came across this video while wandering about youtube. that is amazing and it looks flawless , though the judges would always know better..but how will you judge them, when u cant see them..haha!!!

Have  a look::

Happy 66th Independance day!!

thats the histroy of my counrty in a nut shell...5 min of pure India and its biggest and most precious contribution of zero to the world without which all our space frontiers would have been just a dream. JAI HIND!!! VANDE MATARAM...

An insight to the sixth sense

if you haven't heard of this man, you ain't living in the 21st century. A graduate from IIT Mumbai and now a research student at MIT,USA; Pranav Mistry made news with his sixth sense technology which has taken humans dreams beyond all limits. Pranav aims to help those who don't have any of the five ones once this technology becomes within reach. Great Job. The nation's proud of you. P.S : i know i am very late about this, its just that i was a bit dormant on my blog and therefore was never able to share it.

Top Gear

one of my hostel mates introduced me to these 3 wise men who host top gear UK. to be very frank i was never a automobile enthusiasts and in my chart a sexy looking , luxurious sedan will always be on top and the ferrari's and porche occupied the bottom space. i know i sound way different but that is what i used to be like, a guy with very  poor knowledge of their types.

but the series top gear, came as a ray of  hope in my dying interest for automotive industry. the 3 wise men, namely - jeremy clarkson, richard hammond and james may are such amazing presenters. they changed the way i ever looked at any street car. i was a part of drive train team in my college's FSAE team, Formula Manipal but never in my 8 months of work i ever developed such an interest in automobiles.

From the Bolivian Salt stretch to the North Pole. Racing against the bullet train and even winning it. From driving on the mafia streets of Albania, to being on terrible and manic roads of India. They got themselves struck by lightning and have test driven the Range Rowdy in the Death Valley. They have been to the extremes.

Driving the 54 inch Peel P50 to BBC HQ and wandering about in the Marauder of the South African military forces just adds to the list.  And how curious they were to know the faster one, our sexy Veyron or the Euro tycoon fighter.

The three wise men of Top Gear UK have done everything possible to entertain their viewers and themselves. They have seen every horizon every landscape on this planet, in cars that you and I would never expect to last more than a few miles. That is just staggering and unimaginable.

i love jeremy's ultimate sarcasm, richard's reviews ..actually they are pretty nice ones and jame's  innocence.

its just the perfect combo of a veteran BBC presenter, a radio jockey and an engineer doing the best job in the world. driving around in cars that are older than my grandpa :D . the BBC , worlds richest broadcasting network has surely given the world a series which will tell our future generations, the car their ancestors drove.

if you have watched it, you know what i mean and if you havent then start as soon as possible.

take care

enjoy!!