About Ronak Shah
Ronak ShahConnect with this authorRonak Shah is a reporter for the CarAndBike Show. He joined the CNB team in 2013 as a Researcher, assisting in the production, editing, research and reporting for the show. As a Reporter, Ronak's interests lie in keeping a close eye on the Indian and international automobile markets, studying the business and marketing strategies automobile companies employ and tracking future innovation in electric and green vehicles. His childhood passion for automobiles allows him to happily travel extensively for work, as long as he knows there is a car or a bike waiting for him at the other end to drive!
Articles of Ronak Shah
Toyota To Increase Prices Of Its Model Range By Upto 3 Per Cent
In a move to tackle the increasing manufacturing cost of vehicles and constant upward movement of foreign exchange rates, Toyota Kirloskar Motor has announced that it will increase prices of its entire product portfolio by up to 3 per cent from January, 2017. A similar price hike was also announced in December, 2015.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: The Best Driver Did Not Win
As the Hamilton vs. Rosberg title battle goes down to the wire, the big question is who will win the 2016 World Drivers' Championship. Here's a prediction we're going to stick our heads out and make - respective of the outcome, when fans look back on the season they'll probably believe that 'the best driver did not win'.
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Skoda Rapid Facelift Review
Like the Octavia, the Skoda Rapid has also been an underrated car and we strongly believe that the Czech based car manufacturer should have introduced this facelift at least a year ago, but well, better late than never.
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F1 Podcast: Let's Not Belittle The Formula 1 Drivers' Championship
The 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix could be a Grand Prix of firsts for the Mercedes drivers. Lewis Hamilton could win his first-ever Brazilian Grand Prix OR Nico Rosberg could win his first-ever Formula 1 Drivers' Championship. Let's hope the 'best driver' wins. In which case, shouldn't it then be Fernando Alonso?
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Festive Season 2016: Top 10 Offers On Cars And Bikes This Diwali
Diwali 2016 is just around the corner and this festival of light has proven to be one of the most auspicious occasions to buy a new vehicles. We've already told you about all the discounts offers available on cars and two-wheelers already but here are our top 10 picks.
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Mahindra e2oPlus Review
We drive the new Mahindra e2oPlus, the 4-door version of the home-grown carmaker's popular electric car. Is there more to it than just a couple of extra doors? Let's find out.
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Mahindra e2oPlus EV Launched In India; Prices Start At Rs. 5.46 Lakh
Mahindra launches the new e2oPlus electric car in India with prices starting from Rs. 5.46 lakh. it is the 4-door version of the smaller 2-door e2o hatchback.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: Rosberg Should Invite Nicole To The US GP
Is the United States Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton's new home race? Going purely by his Instagram feed, we'd like to believe so. How many of Hamilton's reported girlfriends would cheer him in the Paddock? Would 'Joey' be visiting too? If so, they should broadcast a live car-to-television radio chat between Joey and Hamilton. We actually try simulate what this conversation could be like.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: Will Hamilton Still Back Verstappen's Moves?
Max Verstappen pulled off a 'Verstappen' on Lewis Hamilton at Suzuka. This made us wonder, will Lewis Hamilton still back Max Verstappen's aggressive moves? The Hamilton vs. Verstappen battle was our highlight moment!
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Mahindra Grabs Podium In Hong Kong ePrix; Sebastian Buemi Takes Pole
The third season of the all-electric Formula E Grand Prix commenced in Hong Kong and making folks back home proud was Mahindra as it grabbed the third position in the race final race on Sunday.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: Will The FIA Ban The Shoey?
Nico Rosberg is lucky that Mercedes built him a tank that went through the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix undamaged. Rosberg was lucky on multiple other counts too, including that he had a clean getaway (the Mercedes cars can't take that for granted anymore) and the two VSC periods that helped him climb back up the order.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: Tim Cook To Replace Ron Dennis At McLaren?
In the Apple-McLaren story, we wonder if Tim Cook could be the man to turn McLaren around. And how is it that despite attracting iconic brands such as Honda, Fernando Alonso and now Apple (possibly), McLaren isn't able to repeat its iconic performances.
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Hero MotoCorp Crosses 70 Million Sales Milestone
Hero MotorCorp has just rolled out its 70-millionth (7 crore) two-wheeler. The milestone comes in just over 30 years of Hero's inception as a two-wheeler manufacturer.
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Now Made-In-India Chevrolet Beat Fails Latin NCAP Crash Test
The Chevrolet Spark GT (sold as the Beat in India) which is manufactured in Talegaon, Maharashtra, has failed the Latin NCAP (the New Car Assessment Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean) frontal crash test scoring a zero for both adult and child safety.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: Pokemon GO Monsters At Formula 1 Races?
With Jenson Button's help we've cracked the perfect idea to bring younger audiences to F1 races - install Pokemon Go monsters at every Grand Prix! Maybe they're already working on this and decided to live test in Singapore on the perfect target audience, Max Verstappen. Yes, we are referring to the 'Godzilla' on track.
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Mercedes-Benz Tops Global Sales Charts In 2016; BMW In Second Place
The luxury car manufacturers announced their global sales report for the month of August 2016 and well expectations were running high as to who is doing better than the other. But from the numbers that have been put out, Mercedes-Benz has topped the sales chart by selling over 1.56 lakh cars globally which saw sales surge by 11.8per cent when compared to August 2015.
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Mercedes to be challenged in Singapore, really? Or is this yet another Ferrari-inspired pre-race PR hype? Singapore has been tagged as Red Bull Racing's track, and boy are we excited! Will we get to see some Verstappen vs. Ricciardo action (and will Red Bull Racing let it be a fair fight!)?
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ZF Group To Set-Up India Technical Centre In Hyderabad
German auto component manufacturer ZF Friedrichshafen AG today announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the government of Telangana to setup the Indian Technical Centre in Hyderabad.
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2400 Kilometres In A Ford Endeavour In 4 Days
It was a bad idea to drive through Rajasthan and Gujarat in the blazing summer but well, somethings have to be done and considering that the monsoons hadn't reached Gujarat; there were warnings thrown from all corners of our office. While we knew what was in store, the people warned us about the hot, dry weather which obviously helped us kit ourselves and the car in a proper manner.
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Inside Line F1 Podcast: Nico Rosberg Suffering From Major FOMO?
Nico Rosberg has done it again - surprised the hell out of us, that is. He won his first ever race at Monza, right on the heels of his first ever win at Spa. He also won his first Driver of the Day award! Is his FOMO, or 'Fear of Missing Out' driving him? The BIGGER question is, will it culminate into his first ever World Championship victory too?
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