Car India – August 2019

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Welcome

Aspi

Bhathena

Editor

Member

Hybrid: A Solution Worth

Supporting

THIS MONTH CAR INDIA

celebrates its 14th anniversary and I

would like to thank all our readers,

supporters, and manufacturers for being

with us for the past 14 years.

This month we have a couple of

exclusive stories for you, starting with the

Porsche 911 drive in Germany and the

two sevens from BMW — the new X

and the smart plug-in hybrid 7 Series —

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The sales of new automobiles keep

sliding month on month and we did not

see any incentives or an effort made to

boost these sales in the recent Budget.

The only reduction in GST was for EVs,

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a welcome. However, the government

needs to do more and there has to be a

push for hybrid cars, for this is

something that will reduce pollution

immediately and does not require an

electric infrastructure.

The plug-in hybrid BMW we drove is

a smart hybrid if you are driving from one

city to another. All you have to do is feed

your destination into the navigation

system and the car will drive on EV mode

within the city, switch to the IC engine

on the highway, and also make sure that

you have enough charge when you enter

the destination city limits before

switching back to the EV mode. The 7

Series returned more than 30 km to a litre

of petrol and to top this, the new diesel

plug-in hybrids return more than 70 km/l

with nearly zero NOx.

Every time you browse through the

magazine, you get to see and read the

names of the editorial staff, but you never

read or see the pictures of the designers,

the copy editor or the marketing team. I

would like to thank them all for their hard

work and support for the past 14 years.

UNLIKEOTHERAUTOMOBILE

magazines,CarIndiais devotedcent

percenttoCARs,SUVsandMUVs.

Therearenobikesorcommercial

vehiclestobefoundinCarIndia.

Therefore,wehavea veryfocused

readershipandalsogiveour

advertisersbetterbangfortheirbuck!

Oureditorialteamis passionate

aboutcars.Theylive,drink,eatand

breathecars.Thislendsthecrucial

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Oureditorialteamis boundbya strict

codeofconduct.Inanindustrywhere

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strivehardtomaintainoureditorial

integrityandbalance.

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ofpages.Wearenotincompetition

withmagazinesthatareina page

countrace.

Finally,weneverexchangeadvertising

forgoodreviews.Justtakea lookatour

‘CaroftheYearAwards’forthepast

fourteenyears.Nota singlewrongone!

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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

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