"It looks pretty cute"-Goan girls on Nano

on Sunday, June 27, 2010

We took bites from a few FM Winners in Goa, who got an opportunity to test drive Nano...

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Big FM Goa: RJ Aryan, Uday and Namratha on nano

Backlog post. In Goa we had 3 RJs of Big FM accompanying us with over 10 winners, who'd gathered along with their family members...

I spoke to the RJs after their test drive, about their Nano experience...


Winners in Goa with Nano

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RJ Aryan
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RJ Namratha
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RJ Uday
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All 3 RJs with Nano
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Kolhapur Radio winners speak about their Nano Ride

on Thursday, June 24, 2010

Kolhapur Radio Winners spoke to the RJ about their Nano Experience...

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Radio Mirchi RJ Manish speaks about Nano

on Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Radio Mirchi RJ Manish drove the Nano for the first time and was very enthusiastic to speak about it...

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Here's what he's got to say about the Nano

Radio Mirchi RJ Anaya on Nano

Radio Mirchi Kolhapur RJ Anaya spoke about her nano experience in Marathi...

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Listen to her feedback:


Summary in 2 words: It's Hot

Also spoke to RJ Manish who drove the Nano and gave his feedback. Will publish his feedback next

Zigwheels Feedback on Nano

on Monday, June 21, 2010

Mr. Priyadarshan, Sr Correspondent, Zigwheels (TOI) drove the Nano from Bangalore to Kolhapur.

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This is what he had to say about the Nano

Big FM Chennai- RJ Akhila on Nano

When we were in Chennai, Big FM's RJ Akhila was visibly in love with the Nano, particularly the red one. Several times she kept asking "who's gonna drive the red one? I'm sitting in that"

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After the drive, I caught up with her for a quick feedback and here's what she's to say about Tata Nano

TV9 Coverage of Superdrive in Bengaluru

on Sunday, June 20, 2010

Bangalore media was very enthusiastic about Nano Superdrive. They took lot of efforts to interact with Superdrive team, take multiple photos in various angles, rearrange the vehicles in different styles and so on. They had lot of questions to ask the crew.

I spoke to TV9 and Kasturi channels about the Superdrive Experience.

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We'd interacted with television media earlier, but this is the first time I noticed it being aired later in the night. Made a poor quality video using my POS Camera and below is the recording of the same. The clipping is in Kannada language


Also see a previous instance of me participating in a ETV Kannada show here

Preeti appreciates Nano

on Thursday, June 17, 2010

Preeti from Coimbatore shares her feedback on Nano

Coimbatore Radio Winners' feedback

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Radio City was our partner in Coimbatore. RJ Nirmal spoke to several winners who got an opportunity to test drive Nano...

Day14: Coimbatore: Ramesh's feedback on Nano

on Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Coimbatore based Businessman Mr Ramesh is a proud owner of Tata Indica and he today checked out Tata Nano.

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I made 3 quick videos of him, little lazy to edit them, hence publishing them individually.





Kochi Test drive winners' feedback

We had 3 winners joining us for test drive from Cochin. Made a quick video with them when we stopped for lunch at Hamara restaurant.

Watch the video to hear what Aravind, Srikanth and Sajay Raj felt about Nano

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Arvind felt he should have spoken in little more detail, hence I made a separate video with him


Test Drive Feedback: Ramesh from Mangalore

on Sunday, June 13, 2010

Mr Ramesh is a stock broker in Mangalore and he drove the Nano all the way from Mangalore till Kasaragod yesterday.

Watch this video to listen to his Nano Experience

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...

Naresh Kamat gives 10/10 to nano

on Friday, June 11, 2010

Naresh Kamat has completed his BE in Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) and would be joining a reputed IT company soon.

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He is a proud owner of Tata Nano LX and was also a winner to drive Nano from Udupi to Mangalore.

Naresh and his friends were eagerly awaiting near hotel Karavali outside Udupi for our cavalry to arrive.

After standard formalities Naresh got behind the wheels and drove all the way to Mangalore. Let us listen to what he had to say about Nano

Nano's international fans

We met several foreign nationals in Goa. Many were curious about Nano and few had very good knowledge about it as well.

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We caught up with Conerous from Austria after he spent a few minutes exploring the Nano, along with Manoj Arora of Tata Motors. Watch this video to hear what he feels about Nano

Whats your favorite song for the road?

on Thursday, June 10, 2010

As we're passing through some of the finest, toughest and beautiful roads in India, would like to hear from you what you think is the best bollywood song to be played during a road trip.

Below are a few I'd like to nominate. I've excluded songs which are not picturised within India. Feel free to add yours and or vote for these songs.

My first pick will be Dil Chahta Hai title song. Aaami Khan and friends driving from Bombay to Goa in a Merc Convertible. Needs no introduction or justification...



Next pick is Yun hi Chala chal raahi.... from Swadesh where SRK drives his caravan...


3rd one is from the yester years... Yeh Dosti... from the legendary Sholay...
Big B and Dharmendra on a two wheeler...


Next pick is from Jab We Met.... yeh isqh haaye... Kareena and Shahid driving around the Himalayas in an open jeep...


What's your pick? Lets hope someone makes a song soon, featuring Nano...

What Mumbaikars say about Nano

on Tuesday, June 8, 2010

I spoke to several Tata Nano owners in Mumbai. All were proud to be owning one. They were thankful to Mr Ratan Tata for his vision and enjoyed the celebrity status they got in a Nano.

Below are video interviews with a few of them.

Mr. Malwani begins his talk thanking Ratan Tata...


Mr. Jitendra spoke in detail about his experience.



Kids love Nano too...


Mumbai test drive winners share their experience

I met Nakul Gandhi and Deepak in the langue of Concorde Motors. They'd won an opportunity to test drive Nano and were pretty excited about it.

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Above: Nakul (3rd from left) and Deepak (extreme right) with actress Poonam and Manoj from Tata Motors at Concorde Motors, Mumbai, few min before flag off on Day 5

They were given event T shirts and after verifying their license and safety briefings, keys were handed over to them. Nakul would drive first 50 kms (till Panvel) and Deepak would takeover from there till Lonvala, our pitstop enroute to Pune.

Nakul drove the first stretch and seemed to enjoy the drive. I caught up with him for a quick, in car video shoot after his drive and he shared his experience as below. (regrets for poor lighting in the video)


Deepak works with Pharma industry and he is awaiting delivery of his Nano in a month's time. After the drive, he is now eagerly awaiting delivery of his car. Post lunch, I could do a video interview with him with the bright green Nano in the background. View the video for his experience