About Siddharth Vinayak Patankar
Siddharth Vinayak PatankarConnect with this authorFormer senior primetime news anchor, financial correspondent, producer, and Chief Editor-Auto – Siddharth has worn many hats during his many years at NDTV. He conceived all the automobile based content for the NDTV network - including the annual carandbike Awards, and used to head the Auto Prime band of programming launched in 2014. He was a key driver behind carandbike.com – already the country's 2nd largest auto portal. Siddharth also created India’s biggest auto quiz, which ran for 7 seasons – the Mahindra AQ. Besides all this, Siddharth is the first Asian journalist to be appointed as a Director on the Steering Committee for the prestigious World Car Awards in 2016. He has served on that jury since 2011, and is now Executive Director of World Car Awards since 2020. He is also Editor-in-Chief of carandbike.
Articles of Siddharth Vinayak Patankar
Lamborghini Huracan Performante: Exclusive Review
With the Huracan Performante, Lamborghini takes on a whole new direction in many ways. So while the Huracans predecessor the Gallardo got a Superleggera variant, the Performante does more than simply go super lightweight. What it gives you is a supercar that stays even more planted and offers mind blowing dynamics in excess of the Huracn coup.
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Should We Be As Excited About Tesla As The Twitterati Suggests?
There has been much anticipation around Tesla's impending arrival into India - as we have been consistently reporting here on carandbike.
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New Generation Land Rover Discovery Exclusive Review
The new car is claimed to be the most capable off-roader Land Rover has made. Read on to find out if that claim is justified!
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New Volvo XC60 To Be Launched In India By Year-End
The new-gen Volvo XC60 is likely to be launched in India by the end of November 2017. The SUV made its global debut at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show in March and is built on the same SPA platform as the Volvo XC90.
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New Volvo XC60 Review: Coming To India This Year
The XC60 is Volvos global bestselling car model line, and also Europes number one seller in the premium compact SUV segment. Thats quite a reputation especially for a car that comes from a brand that was ready to be written off not so long ago, isnt it? And being a brands best selling model in the last year of its life cycle is even more creditable, given it was surrounded in showrooms by much newer and popular models like the S90, V90/V90 Cross Country, XC90, and facelifted V40 too. It also accounts for 35% of Volvos sales in India. This is significant since Volvo is now poised for growth in India. The Volvo XC60 will come to us by November 2017. It will be a direct import for starters and therefore we will get only one fully loaded Inscription variant. Volvo has announced that it will now also begin assembling cars in India an so eventually the XC60 will also move to being assembled here.
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Ducati Attracts Interest From Buyout, Motorcycle Firms
By Siddharth Vikram Philip, Christoph Rauwald, Sarah Syed, and George Smith Alexander, Bloomberg•May 20, 2017 07:53 PM•1 min readA formal sale process may start in the next few weeks for Ducati, which could be valued at more than $1 billion, the people said.
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How Could General Motors Lose Its Way So Badly In India?
Sure, businesses do fail, and indeed GM India has also been through a bankruptcy in the past as well. But the fact that a once-promising and growing business has been reduced to this decision is really something.
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Volvo Cars Announces Local Assembly Operations In India
Volvo will finally now be making cars in India, as it moves from being an importer of fully built cars to the local assembly of its models. The plan is to achieve this through a strategic alliance with Volvo Group India - a separate company to the car business - that has already been making buses and trucks in the country.
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Zero Stars For Made-In-India Renault Duster In Global NCAP Crash Tests
The second round of crash tests for Indian-made cars shows the popular Renault Duster SUV score a 0 star rating. Its driver-airbag variant gets 3 stars.
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Jeep Compass Exclusive First Drive: Promising Compact SUV For India
In our exclusive review, we drive the Jeep Compass and find out if this SUV ticks all the right boxes.
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Who Is Kia? The 7 Things You Didn't Know About Kia Motors
Kia has been very successful worldwide especially in the past few years and here are some facts about the company that you may not have known.
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Maruti Suzuki Dzire: 9 Key Milestones In Its Successful Journey
The Maruti Suzuki Swift Dzire has had its fair share of success in the subcompact sedan in India and has been around for 9 years now and it's been the segment leader right from its launch. Now, as the company gears up to launch the 3rd generation Dzire in India next month, we list down the car's important milestones over the years.
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Maruti Suzuki Dzire Unveiled In India
The new 3rd generation Maruti Suzuki Dzire drives in to replace whats been a massively successful model for the company. The previous two generations of the Swift Dzire have already sold 13.81 lakh units
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Maruti Suzuki Drops 'Swift' And Goes With Just 'Dzire'
The new Dzire, much like the old models, will continue to be based on the Swift hatchback.
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Audi A5 Cabriolet Review: New Car Is a Treat For The Senses
The new A5 Cabriolet is a stunner. The Cabrio uses the same face as the coupe, but naturally has different flanks and rear. It has a bold and wide face, accentuated by the new grille and a very sculpted and menacing new hood.
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Hyundai To Sell Cars To Taxi Segment Under Prime Brand
Hyundai will continue to retail the pre-facelift Xcent to the taxi market under the Prime brand. At the moment, this arrangement will apply to the Hyundai Xcent and the Grand i10, which also received a facelift in February 2017.
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New York International Auto Show: Top 7
The 2017 New York International Auto Show is here and we have selected out top 7 cars showcased at the event.
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Why The Shift To BS 6 Emission Norms Could Be Very Thorny
As the Supreme Court has made it clear that the 1st April 2020 deadline for BS VI norms won't be changed, we take a look at the challenges that will be underway for manufacturers, oil companies and consumers in the transition.
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Honda WR-V i-DTEC vs Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza DDiS: Comparison Review
Honda WR-V i-DTEC vs Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza DDiS! There couldn't have been a better example of David vs Goliath in recent times. The automotive industry in India is abuzz with the coming of subcompact SUVs. The Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza is the best-seller in the segment and not without reason, while the Honda WR-V is the newest player, trying to usurp the Vitara Brezza from its throne. Let's see how this goes!
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Maruti Suzuki Baleno RS Review
We also bring you a comparison with the regular petrol Baleno Alpha to see what more you get from the RS variant.
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