Mangalore Media Coverage

on Sunday, June 13, 2010

Here's a quick reference to great media coverage we got in Mangalore...

1. Mangalore Today...
Mangalore today quoted me but got my title wrong :(...
http://www.mangaloretoday.com/mt/index.php?action=news_briefs&type=1501

2. Daiji World is a popular Konkani portal
Daiji World

3. Vijaya Karnataka's Mangalore edition published a brief report with photo on page 2

4. Mega Media news portal's coverage:
http://www.megamedianews.in/11.06.10TataMotors.htm

5. Coastal Digest
http://www.coastaldigest.com/

We thank the media for getting involved with the Nano Superdrive

What Mangaloreans feel about Nano

on Saturday, June 12, 2010

In order to get the pulse of Karavali, I spoke a few Tata officials and Nano customers in Mangaluru...

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Tata Motors and Automatrix Officials at the customer meet...

Mr Manoj, General Manager, Automatrix, Mangalore gave statistics and customer response to Nano. He said over 155 Nanos have been delivered so far in Mangaluru.


Later in the evening spoke to several families. Two videos are below..




Mangalore public had great time at Nano get together. The hall was smaller compared to Mumbai or Pune and was fully packed. Turn out was great and much higher than expected. Mangalore Tata Nano customer meet in pictures:
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Big FM RJ Avinash speaks about Nano

Caught up with Mangalore Big FM's RJ Avinash yesterday. We met near Kudroli temple where Big FM Winners were given an opportunity to test drive the Nano.

He said he missed an opportunity to drive the Nano as he forgot to bring his license...Listen to him in this video and watch for famous Kudroli temple in the backdrop...

Nano at City Centre Mall, Mangalore

A few years ago, Mangalore hardly had any malls. Today, there're at least half a dozen of them.

City Centre Mall, on KS Road near Hampankatta is one of the biggest in Mangalore and that's where we had a Nano on display the whole day.

Here're a few pics

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Above: Me handing over a T Shirt to Naresh Kamat

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Late in the evening we visited the mall again while returning from Gateway hotel...
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City Centre Mall was inaugurated on 25th April 2010. (details at Raveesh Kumar's blog)

AI Express' Captain Steve with Nano

The Taj Gateway hotel in Mangaluru is home for Air India pilots who fly in and out of Mangalore. When we took the car to Gateway hotel, to be kept on Demo for the customer meet, we'd lots of pilots checking out the car.

In particular, Steve from Air India Express showed lots of interest in the car. I briefed him on the superdrive journey, about Nano and so on. He listened with interest and asked lots of questions

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Steve was very eager to take the car for a spin but I'd to say No, as we were not authorized to give the car for test drives. Captain has an eye for details and he rightly pointed out that rear right wheel cap is missing!

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Above: Steve and Vivek Walia checking out the Nano.

I asked Steve if I can take a quick video bite of his opinion about Nano, but he was in a hurry-he'd a flight to catch.. Err.. he'd a flight to fly.... While Steve took off for his destination city last night, we're all set to take off for Cochin tomorrow.

Nanos in namma Kudla (Mangalore)

Nanos rocked port town of Mangalore yesterday, locally known as Kudla. June means monsoon in South Canara and as expected it was raining all through the day, though the rains were not severe.

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We took the Nanos for a city tour, starting off from Automatrix near KSRTC bus stand, Bijai. Our first stop was the Lady Hills Church. Journalists from The Hindu, Mangalore today (Mangalore's only English Magazine) and other media joined us and took several photos of the vehicle, rains notwithstanding...
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Next visit was to Sultan Bathery...
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Next we headed to the famous Kudroli temple. Each and everyone in the team were amazed by the beauty of the temple
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RJ Avinash from big fm joined us here. Winners of Big FM Contest were allowed to test drive the Vehicle