IIHS Small Overlap Test - Watch it !!

IIHS Small Overlap Test - Watch it !! 

2014 Maserati Ghibli Prototype spied for the first time

2014 Maserati Ghilbli - Another "Imported From Detroit" ??

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/17/2014-maserati-ghibli-prototype-spied-for-the-first-time/

Classy Italians & North American International Auto Show

From the Italian Stable again (This one resembles the 2013 SRT Viper - Like a snake hidden in darkness)

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/14/ferrari-officially-teases-successor-to-enzo-throne/

After the Motor Trend "Truck of the Year" Award, the next stop is NAIAS,Detroit,MI in January 2013

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/12/2013-north-american-car-and-truck-utility-of-the-year-finalists/

News - 2014 Maserati & Jeep Going to India

Fresh off the Italian Stable - The new 2014 Maserati Quattroporte  
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/12/2014-maserati-quattroporte-first-drive-review-video/

The RAM Pro-Master 
http://www.carpages.ca/blog/2012/12/12/ram-truck-confirms-all-new-commercial-van/

Chrysler-FIAT going to India, Finally !
Grand Cherokee, Wrangler and Abarth will go to India including the Alfa Romeo and Maserati

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-21/news/30650785_1_ceo-rajeev-kapoor-italian-carmaker-fiat-fiat-india

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324640104578162662031137062.html

RAM 1500 - MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Best in Class Fuel Ecomony, Air Suspension, New interiors, new 3.6L V6 PentaStar engine, New V8 TorqueFlite 8-speed transmissions on the Hemi Engines, new Hands-Free U-Connect Radio, Active Grill Shutter

Read more - http://goo.gl/lQAF7

                    http://goo.gl/Sy0sb

All New RAM 1500 - MotorTrend's 2013 Truck of the Year

Felix Baumgratner Live - Free Fall from the Edge of Space

Red Bull Stratos - Live

Live streaming on Youtube is 1min 12 seconds slower than the live feed on Discovery Channel right now...


http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull/stratos

Red Bull Stratos - freefall from the edge of space

Red Bull Stratos - freefall from the edge of space

A RAM Truck in a Snowstorm leads to an Amazing SuperBowl Ad

Story of how a RAM Truck and a Michigan Snow Storm led to Eminem and the Chrysler 200 ad  - Thanks Olivier Francois

http://www.freep.com/article/20121008/BUSINESS0103/121008052

Opel-Dodge Dart-Dodge Barracuda-Chevy Silverado

Fiat-Chrysler-Opel - What next ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/10469563

Dodge Dart - Top Safety Pick for 2013
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/04/dodge-dart-and-three-others-latest-to-earn-iihs-top-safety-pick/

A Dodge-based Barracuda ??
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/07/dodge-may-add-barracuda-model-to-challenger-lineup/

2014 Chevy Silverado - Spy Shots
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/01/2014-chevrolet-silverado-spied-our-best-look-yet/

2013 RAM 1500 with a 25 mpg V6 Engine,8-speed Transmission

The RAM News

http://goo.gl/Xlyfh

http://goo.gl/9Tg4K

Fun Facts for Reading Pleasure

Surprise your friends and family by learning all these interesting facts

1.    In 1938, Time Magazine chose Adolf Hitler for Man of the Year.

2.    Twelve people have walked on the moon.

3.    Other than the Earth, the moon is the only other known natural astrological object ever walked on.

4.    Scientists are worried how radiation may be affecting humans after a recent finding of mutant butterflies in Japan with abnormal legs, eyes and wings among other things caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident which was triggered by a major tsunami in March 2011. The tsunami waves were an effect of an underwater earthquake.

5.    Humans and giraffes both have seven vertebrae bones in the neck. It’s not unusual for a mammal to have 7 vertebra bones in the neck but it’s interesting that the long neck of a full grown giraffe has the same amount.

6.    The active ingredient in most toothpaste is called sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride can be lethal, young children using regular toothpaste with this ingredient should be monitored. Even swallowing small amounts can cause stomach problems or worst.

7.    Over 3 million people globally every month search for something online with the words interesting facts in it according to the most popular search engine.

8.    There are no land snakes in New Zealand. It’s part of New Zealand’s bio security to keep all snakes out and if a person is aware of a snake, by law it must be reported.

9.    New Zealand is free of heartworm disease and rabies.

10.  Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

11.  Did you know Disneyland does not sell chewing gum? Walt Disney did not want guests inconvenienced by stepping on gum purchased in the park.

12.  Each year Disneyland uses over 5,000 gallons of paint to maintain the clean appearance of the park.

13.  Giraffes can go without water longer than a camel. That’s wild!

14.  The person reading this is intelligent, interesting and unique. Flattery is alright as long as we don’t inhale!

15.  Many people who read the word yawn or yawning begin to feel the urge to yawn.

16.  The 2nd president of the United States (John Adams) and 3rd president of the United States (Thomas Jefferson) both died within just a few hours apart of each other on the same exact day of July 4th 1826. They are the only two presidents to die on the same day of the same year. It’s true!

17.  When the Titanic departed from port it was documented to have carried approximately 1000 loaves of bread, 86,000 pounds of meat, 40,000 eggs and 36,000 apples to feed the passengers and crew on the 7 day voyage. Now those are some interesting facts!

18.  Dogs can have a fatal reaction to eating chocolate. Chocolate contains a bitter alkaloid called Theobromine also known as Xantheose and that’s the active ingredient that’s bad for the dog. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re awesome!

19.  For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees Fahrenheit or 30 degrees Celsius.

20.  The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India.

21.  It is a fact that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. Like other 1,000+ year old games, it would have been played differently than today’s rules. It’s thought that today’s rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D.

22.  In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service has an employee’s handbook for the collections division unit. Here’s the interesting part, in it are instructions which guide employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war. Kinda Scary!

23.  If you are severely scared of going to the dentist or having dental work, you may actually have a phobia called odontophobia.

24.  Almonds are members of the rose flower family or rosaceae family. The peach is also a member of the rose family.

25.  The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and died at the young age of 17.

26.  The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hair.

27.  Jupiter is the largest planet in the earth’s solar system. I should’ve known that one by now.

28.  Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are. Reminds me of Ice Age.

29.  Did you know the first bullet proof vest and windshield wiper blades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anderson_(inventor) was both invented by women? Cool!

30.  Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster. Weird!

31.  Only humans cry because of feelings. Awesome!

32.  Mohammad is the most common birth name in the world. 

33.  It takes about 7 minutes for the average person to fall asleep. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re amazing!

34.  You can give change for a dollar in 293 different coin variations. Good luck!

35.  About 1 out of every 2 million people will die by falling out of bed. Be careful, not funny. Most who will die this way are either very young children or elderly people.

36.  The construction on the Parisian Notre Dame Cathedral began in 1015 A.D and it took over 400 years to complete, it was completed in 1439 A.D. It’s a well-known historic Roman catholic church in Paris.

37.  If the human stomach doesn’t produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks it will totally digest itself. Weird!

38.  75% of the world’s population wash themselves in the shower from the top to the bottom. Head first, feet last people.

39.  There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. A leap year has 31,622,400 seconds. Amazing..

40.  Approximately one fifth of all the publications from Japan are comic books.

41.  Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.

42.  Four out of five people over 100 years old are women. Interesting!

43.  The price of the Titanic cost about $7 million to build and the price of the Titanic movie was about $200 million to make. Unbelievable!

44.  It’s true! There is only one metal that’s in liquid form at room temperature and that’s Mercury.

45.  When water freezes it expands by 10%.

46.  The only animal with four knees is the elephant.

47.  Birth control pills designed for humans will also work for a gorilla. Now that’s Strange!

48.  If you have a deep genuine fear of the number 13, you may have Paraskevidekatriaphobia also called Friggatriskaidekaphobia or Triskaidekaphobia.

49.  A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago. Awesome!

50.  Stopping a supertanker which is fully loaded and travels at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.

51.  A cat’s ear has a total of thirty two muscles.

52.  The average person laughs 15 times per day. Hahaha!

53.  The eye of an ostrich is larger than its brain.

54.  A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants. Incredible!

55.  Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight.

56.  A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day. Huh!

57.  Did you know, you cannot fold an 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller piece of paper in half more than 7 times? Try it! The Myth Busters hosts on the Discovery channel folded a piece of paper more than 7 times but it was a really large sheet of paper.

58.  More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.

59.  Oh no, there’s only 20 more interesting facts to go on this page.

60.  Dead skin is the root cause of most of the dust in your house. That’s Gross.

61.  Lung cancer was how the cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died. Not surprising!

62.  Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.

63.  You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.

64.  If an infant becomes blind soon after they’re born they will still almost always see images in their dreams, but infants born with blindness will most likely never have dreams with images. People who were born blind do still have very emotionally intense dreams which include hearing, smells, feeling and taste. Now that’s an interesting fact about dreams.

65.  It is against the law in the state of Kentucky to marry a man more than 3 times.

66.  In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket.

67.  On December 16th 1811 the mighty Mississippi river began to flow backwards due to a powerful earthquake.

68.  Fires in the forest have been documented to move much faster uphill than downhill.

69.  Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain itself cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.

70.  Human brains are estimated to be 70 – 75% water

71.  Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day. The question is - where do they go?

72.  No other animal has a longer pregnancy term than that of the elephant which is documented at an average of 22 months.

73.  During World War 2 the Oscar award given out by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was made of wood because most common metals were very scarce.

74.  Breast fed babies score slightly higher on mental development tests than ones on formula.

75.  People who apply sunscreen to themselves generally apply 50-75% less than the recommended amount according to the Archives of Dermatology.

76.  The color of a hen’s earlobes will usually determine the color of the egg shell. Farmers know hens with red or darker colored earlobes are most likely to lay brown eggs and hens with lighter colored or white earlobes will usually lay white eggs.

77.  There are 722 miles of subway track in New York City.

78.  Hartsdale New York has a pet cemetery with more than 12,000 pets buried.

79.  Only one state in the United States contains only one syllable, the state of Maine.

NYC to LA in One Pit Stop ?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/09/17/ram-long-hauler-pickup-ready-to-own-road/

Will FIAT abandon Italy ?

http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/09/could-fiatchrysler-ceo-marchionne-say-ciao-to-italy/

Fiat Strada - AutoBlog

Will Chrysler Fiat launch this small pick up as its Italian Cousin  ?

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/20/2013-fiat-strada-first-drive-review/

CNG Versions of Chrysler 300 and RAM Trucks

Natural Gas-fueled Cars and Trucks Elude Market for Now - Going the Italian way to make the world a better place

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/9/21/natural_gasfueled_cars_and_trucks_elude.htm

The All-New 2013 RAM 1500 Light Duty Truck

Does The 2013 RAM Truck Finally Have The Ammo To DO SERIOUS Damage To Ford's F-150?

Why not - Read on. Ram Truck is back in contention to be the "Best in Class" in the Light-Duty Truck Category

Link - http://goo.gl/7CCGS

Make this World a Better Place

The question I ask myself before I start this blog –Am I trying to be a NRI or Am I asking for too much from others??

Gone are those days, those rainy evenings, May flowers, lost in the eternal beauty of Bangalore! No more a pensioner’s paradise. The traffic in Bangalore was the most disciplined I had ever seen. There was abundant patience in the way people travelled around; there were “Uncles” on Bajaj scooters who would never turn without that out-stretched hand indicating where they were heading to. I would remember the route to school we took, because we comeback every day in the same way. Bangaloreans were more concerned about others when I was a kid, because every passerby would stop by if someone was injured or met with an accident. The roads looked so neat with all vehicles parked in a uniform manner. But thanks to the growing Bengaluru and development – things never seem the same anymore. Commuting in Bangalore is like walking on tight rope today. You do not know when you can get ejected off your vehicle.

Make his work a little easier !!

If you come to think of it, there are certain things that we can do to help make Bangalore a better place to live and let live. For all my friends and family who know my work profile – I am not preaching my work ethics and even I was, think again, it will make more sense to every one of us.

1. The most important rule – Follow the Lane rules. Do not try to jump lanes unless it is safe for you and others. Also use the blind spot concept. The LDW (Lane Departure Warning systems in India are light years away)
2. Don’t park your vehicle out of the designated line obstructing movement of other vehicles.
3. When you intend to stop, use your rear view mirrors and ensure only you are stopping and not others along with you
4. Use indicator signals to indicate where you are going.
5. Please wait for your turn at cross roads where there are no signals, don’t stop a speeding vehicle or a number of vehicles just for you. At the same time, keep in mind to be courteous to pedestrians crossing roads.
6. If there is heavy traffic don’t start moving is wrong direction till you getting clearance to move on to the other side. Do not use foot paths while driving or riding - they are for pedestrians.
7. Buses, cabs and autos can do their little bit, take an extra minute and park vehicles to the curbs when passengers alight.
8. Two-wheelers must try to stay in the slowest left lane.         
9. Use Google maps to get to new places. They are getting better everyday
10. When waiting for your turn for green signal in long traffic, please don’t jump the queue of vehicles causing trouble and traffic jam.
11. Basics – Use Seat belts, helmets. NO MOBILE PHONES while driving/riding, NO DRINK & DRIVE.
12. You are not the only one on the road. Don’t make the roads unsafe for others.

Since Bangalore has the highest number of traffic signals in the country, you need to have more time and planning your route.

Please remember • If you give way, you will get yours quicker • Smile often & have patience while driving. • Its simple to keep it simple, follow traffic rules. • If you have made a mistake while driving, be the first to apologize • Never indulge in road rage • If things go like today, we will continue with the Swalpa Ajdust Maadi attitude