I do not believe in making new year resolutions. As Kiruba rightly points out - It is probably in the month of January every year that liquor and cigarette sales are the lowest, gym and slimming centers enrollment are the highest, but the sales get back to normal figures by February.
Having said that, I know my blog has been gathering dust for quite some time now and I intend to be more active with blogging this year but I will restrict myself mostly to speaking out loud only about “the” subject, for reasons that are obvious: 1. I am passionate about it. 2. A lot of regular readers of this blog are passionate about it too.
I am looking at introducing another dimension to this blog, but I’ll talk about that later.
OK, Now if you are wondering what the subject of this post had to do with all this, well here is the explanation:
According to a recent study:
Delhi boasts of the highest car density in India - 85 cars per 1000 population.
Ludhiana comes second at 56 per 1000. But, Ludhiana has the highest density of Mercedes’s in India and also the number of two-wheelers.
Chennai comes third with about 51 cars per 1000 population.
Overall car penetration in India remains at 8 per 1000. The TATA 1 Lakh car could change these figures - The study did not say that, I am speculating that.
Now, only if they could do something to prevent people from pinging you when you have the “Busy” status on, I would have no more expectations from Google.
For all of you who suffer from the same problem as I do, of reading in the bathroom and more often than not feeling the need to use the dictionary or even wikipedia at times. The solution to the problem is here. Amazon’s Kindle.
Maruti SX4 has been selling really well at over 3000 cars a month, and it certainly deserves to. It is a brilliant value for money car that made guys at Honda nervous too, who immediately went to on to add the ABS and Airbags in the City.
I am happy with the way the Indian car market is shaping up. Every segment has so many offerings and there is so much competition, the consumer is finally winning.
What is also pleasantly surprising is the fact that our folks have stopped fussing over petty things. The SX4 has only one reverse light on the left tail light cluster and it seems to have bothered no one. 8 years ago, when Ford launched the Ikon with the same feature [or bug], it was criticized upon so heavily that Ford had to add the second one immediately to avoid any more bickering.
Times surely have changed and so have people. For the good.
