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
Third Generation Skoda Superb Unveiled in Prague
A New Era. That is how describes the launch of the 3rd generation of it's flagship sedan, the Superb. In some ways the company is more right than it realises
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Hyundai's Verna Facelift Ready to Roll!
Hyundai now claims the face lifted car has undergone a certain degree of re-engineering, and so now improves on it's performance attributes too. Besides that it adopts some elements of Hyundai's Fluidic Sculpture 2.0 design - which was first seen on the new i20 in India.
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World Car Awards 2015 Finalists Announced
The 75 jurors from around the world who make up the eminent jury of the World Car Awards have spoken. In the first round of voting for all eligible cars carried out over the past week, the jury has selected its finalists for the 2015 awards.
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SsangYong Tivoli Compact SUV Launched in Korea
SsangYong Motor - a Mahindra group company has unveiled the Tivoli - a compact SUV, in Seoul. Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra joined M&M's President, Automotive division Pawan Goenka, and SsangYong Chairman Yoo-Il Lee at the launch.
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New Jaguar Model Will be F-Pace Crossover
It was a matter of time before the inevitable announcement came from JLR. Yes the C-X17 concept that was shown at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show will now be produced as the new model line from Jaguar - F-Pace
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Exclusive: Audi India Plans Blockbuster 2015 With 10 New Models
It's already ending the year on top of the heap - again. But Audi India is confident that 2015 will be even bigger. That confidence comes from it's decision to launch 10 new models in the coming year.
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New Mercedes-Benz C-Class vs BMW 3 Series vs Audi A4
The new C-Class is lighter, lither and more agile. Its also modern, beautiful and yes - it is indeed the Baby S-Class - as its been popularly called all year long. Now it's set for launch in India.
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Global NCAP Asks For Withdrawal of Datsun Go From India
The recent revelations of the second round of crash tests for Indian made cars, Global NCAP - the safety watchdog - created quite a storm in India. Now Global NCAP has decided to ask Nissan Motor CO to withdraw the Datsun Go from the Indian market.
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Blog: Road Safety Must Remain A National Priority
It has been heartening that in a country where safety on the road seemingly didn't matter to anyone, is now front and centre. And it has all happened in a relatively short span of about 10 months. Is it simply that in a country teeming with millions, like society we as individuals also had no value of human life?
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Now Maruti Swift & Datsun Go Fail NCAP Crash Tests
The popular Maruti Suzuki Swift and the Datsun Go have failed the latest round of Indian crash tests carried out by Global NCAP. The Go is an entry-level model, which competes with Maruti Suzuki's Alto800 and Hyundai Eon, while the Swift is positioned as a more premium hatchback.
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Jaguar Land Rover Opens New Engine Plant
Jaguar Land Rover has inaugurated its new Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. Built at an investment of 500 mn Euro, it's taken the company just over 3 years since the announcement to build its own engines was first made.
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New 2nd Generation BMW X6 Review
It's a Sports Activity Coup. Yes that is one term that still made little sense to me when BMW first launched the original X6 in 2008. 260,000 units later and it still doesn't. But clearly my opinion doesn't count; given the success BMW has had with it.
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Mercedes-Benz GLA 45 AMG Review
You want a sports car, you should go get a sports car. You want an SUV you buy one of those. So should you have one that's trying to be both?
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He For She: On The Road Too
What does this have to do with Emma Watson's message? Well, I believe that we all need to really think about how gender equality becomes extremely crucial to achieve these targets and goals.
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Paris Remains One of the Favourite Motorshows
Paris je t'aime. What a clich you may think. But this city of wondrous romance, color, lights and allure - is riddled with clichs. But unlike most these are very welcome. Yes there is a charm to this European nerve centre for fashion and the arts. But every two years the haute couture makes way for the horsepower!
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Mercedes-Benz Unveils New B-Class
Its one of the most successful models for Mercedes-Benz in recent times, selling over 350,000 units since its second generation launched in 2011. That is the B-Class that has been seen as not just a big hatch, but also the creator of what's now called the Sports Tourer segment in Europe.
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Volkswagen Finalising Subcompact SUV Plan For India
It's a segment Volkswagen says it know it cannot ignore. In fact it goes a step further and says it recognises that success in not just India but most global markets will need it to offer an SUV type bodystyle in pretty much every car segment.
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SsangYong Shows XIV Compact Concepts
Mahindra Group Co and Korean SUV specialist SsangYong has not one but two new XIV Concepts at the Paris. And they're both aimed at the new compact SUV phenom.
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Discovery Sport Kicks Off New Family of Vehicles For Land Rover
The SUV specialist has a strategy I first heard about at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. Going forward there will be three families of vehicle lines under the Land Rover umbrella - Range Rover, Discovery and Defender. That means the Freelander nameplate will disappear into the sunset somewhere, and there will be more than one Discovery and Defender!
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Jaguar XE: More Details Revealed on Compact Sedan
The car that will propel Jaguar into higher volumes and bring new customers into its fold - the XE - has a lot riding on it. Quite literally! There are new details we now have from the company, in terms of the systems on board, as well as the variants that will be on offer with the XE sedan.
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