1969 Mercury Cougar: February 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

1969 Mercury Cougar XR7 Convertible / 428 Cobra Jet / Ram Air - Barrett Jackson

Saturday, February 20, 2010

1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator - Naughty Kitty

What Else Would You Call A Cougar Eliminator With Ford's Nastiest Production Small-Block?

October, 2004 By Eric English

Photography by Eric EnglishWhile the Cougar was marketed to an upscale audience, an alter ego could be found in the low-production Eliminator model. Eliminators were primarily a cosmetic package often paired with mainstream 351 powertrains. Check the right boxes, however, and you could have a hardcore performance engine to go along with the Eliminator's brilliant colors, spoilers, hoodscoop, and special trim-the brainchild of the legendary Larry Shinoda.

Take John Benoit's '70 featured here, which was ordered with the ace of all Ford small-blocks-the Boss 302. the Competition Blue beauty is paired with a four-speed Top loader and backed by a bulletproof 9-inch rearend assembly, carrying 3.50 gears and a Traction-Lok differential. Add staggered shocks, a N-case carrier, and 31-spline axles, and you have one bad cat just the way it was assembled some 34 years ago.

One would have to call Benoit more than just your average Cougar buff, as the desirable Mercurys are the main interest at his Cascade Classics restoration business in Edgewood, Washington. Benoit has owned a variety of the models, including Eliminators, GTEs, XR7Gs, and more. he's also been responsible for any number of top-flight restorations.

Benoit came by this particular '70 in 1999. he had seen the car in a national competition earlier in the decade. The Eliminator looked terrific as it rolled off the transporter at Benoit's shop, but a more thorough evaluation quickly evolved into disassembly and a freshening to the highest standards. The average hobbyist would have found little fault with the car, but when Cougars are your calling card in life, you want to put your best foot forward. To that end, Brandon Huhtala at Automotive Images applied a new two-stage topcoat. the reassembly involved boxes of N.O.S. trim and chrome. As you can see, the results are nothing short of staggering; a fact borne out by the car achieving 498 out of 500 points at the 2000 Cougar Club of America Nationals.

It's worth noting while the musclecar heavyweight 428CJ was available in all Cougar models, the Boss 302 could only be had with the Eliminator package. In fact, according to Kevin Marti (www.martiauto.com), just 469 Boss Eliminators were assembled during the '70 model year-a mere fraction of the 7,000-plus Boss 302 Mustangs built during the same period. Hardware was pretty much the same for the FoMoCo cousins; the only available transmissions were close-ratio or wide-ratio Top loader four-speeds. An exception to their similarities: the Boss 302 Mustang was available with a Ram-Air, but the Boss 302 Cougar Eliminator was not.

Turning to the interior of Benoit's Eliminator, we see the optional Decor Group trim and eight-track tape player, along with the 8,000-rpm tach dash that came in all Boss Cougars. A factory T-handled Hurst stick actually works Ford linkage, stirring the close-ratio cogs that proved the most popular choice on '70 Boss 302s (Mustang or Cougar). Styled steel wheels were original equipment as well, and mount some of the most popular OE skins of the era-raised white letter Goodyear Polyglas GTs in an F70-14 size.

the Boss 302/Eliminator combination might appear to make strange bedfellows, as the high-rev small-block was primarily a homologation exercise for Ford's Trans-Am race teams, in which the '69-'70 Cougars were not involved.

Three decades later, little has changed, and that's just the way John Benoit and other Boss Cougar fans like it.

PRODUCTION
(courtesy of Marti Autoworks)
1969 1970
Boss 302 Mustang 1,628 7,014
Boss 302 Eliminator 169 469

Delhi’s first Super Car Show Tomorrow!

Delhi 2010 Super Car Show Claridges February

Delhi will witness its first super car show tomorrow (21st Feb, 2010). The show is being organised by Bellset entertainment.

Forty-eight (super) cars are confirmed - including two Ferrari F430, 599GTB Fiorano, three Audi R8's, Aston Martin DB9, Vantage, two Lamborghini LP560's, Lambo Spyder, Merc SL55, CL500, Maserati GTS, Chevy Camaro SS, Bentley GTS, Porsche Carrera S, 911, Cayman S, four BMW M3's, two BMW M5's, BMW Z4, Rolls Royce Phantom, Bentley Arnage, Jag XFR.

Venue – The Claridges, Delhi
Time – 11:00 AM

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

What is The Contemporary Condition?

Introductory Note From Editors
William E. Connolly and Jairus Victor Grove

The contemporary world faces several overlapping challenges:

*the challenge climate change poses alike to neoliberal understandings, capitalist priorities, and the future;

*the radically unequal distribution of world resources and possibilities of sustenance;

*new global modes of violence, with new combatants, some not even human;

*new global contingencies, crossings, and a veritable “minoritization” of the world at a faster pace than heretofore that together redefine sovereignty, the nation, and the territorial state;

*new experiences of time that disturb received conceptions of both religion and secularism;

*an intensification of religious conflicts within and across regions alongside and the sense in other circles that a viable response to pressing issues that require positive interactions between adherents of diverse theistic and non-theistic faiths.

*the rise of bellicose minorities in the United States and elsewhere that seek to block progressive reform;

*a growing sense in the academy that complexity theory in the natural sciences could help to redefine and reinvigorate literary theory, philosophy and the human sciences, opening a future in which the tired Kantian division between “the faculties” becomes reconfigured and academics speak more actively and broadly to public issues;

* the awareness that a viable response to any of these issues touches several others as well.

These issues, and others too, are large, controversial and interinvolved. But for at least the last thirty years, in the United States in particular and elsewhere too, academics on the Left have played a declining public role in defining them and/or helping to spark social movements that speak to them. There are important exceptions to this generality in the domains of race, gender and gay/lesbian movements. But even these movements are now pressed hard by a think-tank/media/talkshow/evangelical/neoliberal complex that deflects and displaces critical discourse. One effect of that machine is to isolate, and sometimes to demonize, professors and the academy in general. And yet there are also signs, particularly on the blogosphere, that this isolation is once again under challenge.

The Contemporary Condition seeks to contribute to such blogosphere explorations. It will provide a space in which diverse academics on the Left explore the issues listed above, and allied matters as well. In particular, it seeks dialogue between those who define themselves as secularists and those who participate in religious and theological traditions, between those who seek to rework Marxism and those who pursue new orientations to matter, time, class, the earth, and the idea of humanity, between those who persuade through writing and those who contend that visual culture must command close attention as well, between those who seek a unified critical movement and those who contend that a viable movement today must be a pluralist assemblage working through multiple sites, between those who think liberalism needs modest reworking and those who think its conceptions of time, secularism, ethics, politics, civil society, and rights require more radical reconfiguration.

Our core contributor group will post blogs regularly on these and allied issues, seeking to spur larger conversation as we do so. We also invite participation by others, either through commenting on postings or by submitting a 400 to 1000 statement for consideration. A contribution might speak immediately to an issue or draw upon a recent event to illuminate a dark side or promising potential residing in it.

Our Starting Line Up of Contributors

William E. Connolly

Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Johns Hopkins University

My recent books include A World of Becoming (10); Capitalism and Christianity, American Style ( 08); Pluralism (05); Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (02); and Why I Am Not A Secularist (99). My new book, A World of Becoming: Complexity, Spirituality, Desire, is now in production with Duke. I want to continue thinking about what a political economy would like if it folded into it appreciation of the complexity of natural force fields and the role that affirmative or destructive spiritualities plays in the interior of politico-economic life.

Jairus Victor Grove

Jairus Victor Grove is a graduate student in International Relations and Political Theory at Johns Hopkins University. His dissertation How War Exceeds the State: Insurgencies, Cities, and the Materiality of Violence investigates the relations and forces that hold together increasingly virulent and mobile forms of warfare. When Jairus is not writing his dissertation he teaches classes at Johns Hopkins on Insurgency and Modern Warfare, coaches the Harvard debate team, is a featured contributor to the Huffington Post and ponders the singularity. In 2008 Jairus was a member of President Barack Hussein Obama's National Field Team.

David Howarth

David Howarth is a Reader in the Department of Government at the University of Essex and Co-Director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies. I regard myself first and foremost as a political theorist, whose main interests are post-Marxist and poststructuralist theories of society and politics. I focus primarily on the empirical study of political ideologies and discourses; the relationship between space, time, and the political; the intersections between identity, difference, and subjectivity in various contexts; and the formulation and implementation of public policy, especially in the environmental field. In pursuing this project I seek to critically explain the environmental impact and affective grip of unsustainable practices, such as unregulated global aviation and other forms of unsustainable mass transportation; the promises and difficulties in constructing progressive political projects and assemblages that can challenge destructive and exclusionary practices and regimes; and the development of alternative radical democratic imaginaries that can mediate between an irreducible plurality of interests and identities via the articulation of new ideals, which can be recognised and endorsed by multiple constituencies. Although I am principally a practitioner of political theory and analysis, my practices in this field have been decisively prompted and shaped by my involvements in the struggle against apartheid domination in South Africa during the 1980s, and in efforts to forge ‘red-green alliances’ in an age marked by unregulated global capitalism and the perils of climate change.

Thomas Dumm
Thomas Dumm teaches political theory and culture at Amherst College. His most recent book, Loneliness as a Way of Life (Harvard, 2008) comes out in paperback l this spring.

Kathleen Roberts Skerrett
Kathleen Roberts Skerrett is Associate Dean and Professor Religious Studies at Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa. Her most recent publications are "Consuetudo Carnalis in Augustine's Confessions: Confessing Identity/Belonging to Difference" and "Sex, Law, and Other Reasonable Endeavours". She writes and teaches at the intersection of contemporary Christian theology and contemporary political philosophy. She lives in Iowa with her three children.

George Shulman

George Shulman teaches political theory and american studies at the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies of New York University. My second book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Politics, was published in 2008 by Minnesota, and my first book, Radicalism and Reverence: the Poltiical Thought of Gerrard Winstanley, was published by California in 1988. I also contribute to the civil religion and religion and secularism blogs hosted by SSRC.

Catherine Keller

Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She is the author, most recently, of On the Mystery (Fortress 2008); God and Power(Fortress 2005); Face of the Deep: a Theology of Becoming (Fortress 2003);); she has co-edited several Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium volumes, the most recent being Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation and Relationality (Fordham:2009).

Michael J. Shapiro

Mike Shapiro began teaching at the University of Hawaii’s Department of Political Science after receiving my Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1966. I have also taught at the University of California-Berkeley, 1968-1970, twice at the University of Massachusetts on exchanges (1979 and 1986), at the University of Bergen in Norway (1972-73) and in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU (2002) and at Scoula Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, Italy. My early research was in the areas of political psychology and decision making (applied to electoral politics, to US foreign policy decision making, and to Norwegian Oil production decision making). Since the early 1980's my research and writing has been in the areas of political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, cultural studies, politics of media, indigenous politics, and critical international studies. In connection with this turn in my research I have been involved in co-editing two books series, one in International studies and Comparative politics (with the University of Minnesota Press) entitled Borderlines and one in Political Thought (with the University of Edinburgh Press) entitled Taking on the Political.
Research Interests: My research and teaching interests are in the areas of political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, global politics, politics of media, politics of aesthetics, politics of culture, and indigenous politics.

John Protevi

I’m a philosopher (PhD, Loyola Chicago, 1990), but I work in a French Department (LSU, Baton Rouge). In the first part of my career I worked on Heidegger, Derrida, and their readings of Greek (Plato and Aristotle) and German philosophers (Kant, Hegel, Husserl). In the second and ongoing part, I work on Deleuze, dynamical systems theory, and the biological, cognitive and affective sciences. My most recent book is Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic (Minnesota, 2009). I have a website with research papers and course materials www.protevi.com/john and contribute to the group blog New APPS www.newappsblog.com.

Siba N. Grovogui

Professor of International Relations and Political Theory

Johns Hopkins University Department of Political Science

His most recent book is Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions.’ (Palgrave, 2006).

Romand Coles

Romand Coles is the Frances B. McAllister Chair and Director of the Program for Community, Culture, and Environment at Northern Arizona University. His publications include Beyond Gate Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy; Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations Between a Radical Democrat and a Christian (with Stanley Hauerwas); Rethinking Generosity: Toward a Post-secular Caritas; and Self/Power/Other: Political Theory and Dialogical Ethics.

Terrell Carver

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on Marx, Engels and Marxism, and sex, gender and sexuality. He co-general-edits two book series: "Globalizations" for Rowman & Littlefield, and "Routledge Innovators in Political Theory". Together with Sam Chambers he is taking over the editorship of Contemporary Political Theory from 1 July 2010.

Kathy Ferguson

Research interests: My central research interests are contemporary political theory, feminist theory, and militarism. I am currently writing a book on Emma Goldman as a political thinker, and another book on homeschooling. My work on Goldman reflects a longstanding fascination with her anarchist and feminist ideas and actions at the turn of the last century, while my more recent interest in homeschooling results from my year of homeschooling my own sons while traveling in the U.S. mainland and Israel. I continue to work on questions of gender and militarism, this time within the context of globalization, with co-author Phyllis Turnbull. When I finish these two projects I've been invited to write a new introduction and conclusion to my earlier book The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy, to coincide with the second edition of that book in 2004.

Davide Panagia

Davide Panagia is a political and cultural theorists who holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University. His writings focus on the relationship between politics, aesthetics, popular culture, and ethics and include two books: The Poetics of Political Thinking (Duke, 2006) and The Political Life of Sensation (Duke, 2009). He is also Co-Editor of the political and cultural theory journal, Theory & Event. His current research includes a monograph on David Hume and his contributions to contemporary political and cultural thought, and a book-length project that explores the possibility of an ethics of appearances for contemporary democratic life. His ambition is to some day become a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly.

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Ecological Thought(Harvard UP, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007), seven other books and over sixty essays on literature, ecology, philosophy, and food.

Steven Johnston

Steven Johnston is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. He is author of The Truth about Patriotism (Duke University Press) and is currently writing a book manuscript tentatively titled Tragedy and Politics, addressing issues such as humanitarian war and the Palestine-Israel conflict.

Kam Shapiro

Kam Shapiro was born in Honolulu, or so he claims. He received his B.A. from Reed College and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. His work explores various means by which sovereignty, citizenship are invested in and composed by affects and habits. He is the author of Sovereign Nations, Carnal States (Cornell University Press, 2003) and Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). He lives in Chicago.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Volkswagen Polo’s India Price out on February 23

The Volkswagen Polo is finally all-set to hit the roads in February. The price which has been a closely guarded secret will also be announced on February 23. VW has been working aggressively on localisation to price the Polo competitively so you can expect the base Polo to start at around Rs 4.5 lakh.

There will be three engine options available, but the first one to hit the showrooms will be the 1.2-litre 75bhp petrol. The other two engines – 1.2-litre 75bhp diesel and a 1.6-litre 104bhp petrol will follow shortly. The Polo promises to bring class leading levels of quality and comfort to the segment and will be available across three trim levels – Trendline, Comfortline and the Highline.

Source - Autocar India

Coming Soon - Renault’s Twizy Z.E. Concept

French car manufacturer Renault is looking for an Indian partner with whom its Zero Emission cars can be developed for India. The Twizy Z.E Concept occupies the prime spot in Renault’s zero emission plans for India.

The Twizy Concept has a four-wheel chassis and offers the driver and passenger – seated one behind the other – an all-electric means of transport which produces zero CO2 emissions. With 2.30 meters long and just 1.13 meters wide, the Twizy ensures that it sneaks through the urban traffic without much problem.

It has a turning circle of just three meters and a footprint barely larger than that of a scooter. So, parking should not be an issue in India’s crowded streets. Powered by a 20 bhp electric motor the car develops 7.14 kgm of max torque and can attain a top speed of 75 kmph. It combines comfort with responsive performance at all engine speeds and it can accelerate at a similar rate to a 125cc bike.

Become Autocar India’s Young Driver 2010 !

So, you think you are the best driver in India, eh? Well, some news that might interest you! Autocar India and Maruti Suzuki have come up with Young Driver 2010 - a competetion for India's safest driver.

The competition will be held in three phases – an online theory test, a simulator session and the final driver analysis at the Institute of Driving Training and Research (IDTR) at New Delhi.

The Rewards? Well, the winner of the competetion gets a brand new Maruti Suzuki A-Star alongwith the title of being India's safest driver.

Interested? head to www.youngdriver.in to register. (Last Date for Registration -> 25the February 2010

Spied – New Ford Endeavour Variant in Chennai

IAB published the images of what could be the new variant of the Ford Endeavour in India. The Endeavour spied is said to be the same as the showroom model the only difference being that this one had a “On Test” badge on the rear windshield.

Michael Boneham, President and Managing Director, Ford India last year hinted at 2.5 Litre – Automatic & 3 Litre Manual Transmission versions of the Endeavour. This one here, could well be one of the two!

TVS Apache 220 coming soon!

The Apache RTR 180

Taking cue from other bike manufacturers’, TVS will soon introduce a power-centered bike for enthusiasts in India – the Apache 220. It will have a 220 cc engine (as the name suggests) and is expected to produce 22 bhp with a top speed of 150 kmph.

The production of the bike will start in February 2010, i.e this month and it will hit the showrooms sometime around April 2010 with a price tag of about Rs 95,000.

We’ll keep you updated on this information. Stay Tuned.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Koi FIsh - Japanese sleeve (work in progress)

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Ford Figo launch due Next Month [India], New Models Coming Soon

Ford will be launching its sub-B catagory car – the ‘Figo’ in India before the end of the next month. It will be the sixth new model to be introduced in India by Ford. However the company is tightlipped about the pricing of the car. According to Ford India president and MD Michael Boneham -

“It (the price) will be very competitive. We will compete with the i10 and Swift and others as we are targeting the segment, which accounts for 70% of all new vehicles sold in India; The definition of small car in India is a “bit different”

Mr Boneham said Ford intends to introduce a series of new products to the market in a 12-18 month span. It would take about 5-6 years to reach full capacity, he said, responding to a query. Though it would focus on the compact car segment, it did not necessarily mean that Ford would not look at other segments.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

New Volvo S80 Diesel Launched in India

Volvo Auto India, yesterday, launched the new Volvo S80 in India. The car is priced at Rs 38.79 lakh (Ex-Mumbai) & Rs. 37 lakh (Ex-Delhi) Volvo currently sells two models in India, the Volvo SUV XC90 and Volvo S80.

The New Volvo S80 meets the Euro 5 emission norms. It has a 2.4 litre diesel engine which delivers 205 hp, 420 Nm of torque and a fuel efficiency of 13.09 km per litre. The D5 engine also comes equipped with the latest twin turbo and Peizo high-pressure technology. It has the DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) feature which is provided in all Volvo diesel models.

The S60 offers rear seat entertainment with a dual DVD screen connected to a Dolby Prologic II Dynaudio music system, GPS Navigation system and an anti-theft personal communicator.

In terms of safety, the S80 comes with Intelligent Driver Information System, Adaptive Brake Lights, Ready Alert Brakes - which further reduce braking distance during an emergency, Dynamic Stablity Traction Control, Whplash Protection System and Side Impact Protection System.

The company said that it has no plans to set-up manufacturing units in India as the company is not getting that kind of sales figures yet. Moreover, it said, that the country’s present duty structure doesn’t make much difference to the cost of the cars even if they are imported as CKD’s to India as opposed to the current CBU imports.

2010 Supercar Show at Mumbai, India by XXX/Parx/SCI – Pictorial Report by Team BHP [Photos will ‘drive’ you Insane]

Hi Readers, last Sunday i.e on the 31st of January, 2010, a Super Car Show was organised in Mumbai by Supercar Club of India (SCI) XXX Energy Drinks & Parx. (There was a similar show in April last year, Remember?) There was a flurry of ‘super’ cars at the event from the Audi R8 to the BMWs to the Lamborghinis and the Ferraris, you name it. It was a one of a kind event.

Here, on Gedi Junction, we are starting a separate section for this event that took place and we’ll be posting every bit of news from the sources available. So you’ll find a lot of content that has been taken from other blogs/websites which were present to cover the event. All credits to the original content producers.

This is a report of the event/rally by v12 (TeamBHP Moderator)

The Venue
All in all, this rally was one of the most organised ones in Mumbai. It was very well organised, they had good participants, guards behaved well - a very good job Hormazad, Gautam and all the event organisers. One more important thing that I noticed was that the venue and the event layout was arranged in such a way that it was easily accessible to viewers and even participants. There was not much of chaos like the last time. The guards handled the entry and exit points very well and there was no delay for the cars coming through. Even though we did not have a pass, we managed to get some good pics (although not detailed) of all the cars present. There was heavy security and bandobast at the event and even on the entire route. The only problem was that the entrance of the venue was quite dusty and the drivers had a tough time keeping the Lamborghini's parked at the entrance clean. Everytime a car revved, a lot of dust settled on the cars parked at the entrance.

The entrance to the venue. Red-carpet welcome for all!

Heavy police bandobast. Along with private security guards.

Media Coverage was in full swing.

Getting ready for OTR, you'd wonder. Jeeps were ordered for press photography.

The Cars at the venue
The cars started pouring in right from 8-30 AM and most of them were Gautam Singhania's cars. We (Gordon, a friend and myself) reached Peddar Road at around 8 and found the Panamera being prepared for the rally. On the way we also seen almost a dozen Mahindra Classic and Gypsy's and wondered if they had arranged a rally for themselves. Its later when the flag off took place that we realised what these SUV's were really there for. A little later we reached Marine Drive and started searching for the venue. Took the directions from Dippy and went off in search. En-route we spotted the CLS 63 and SL63 waiting outside INOX. The people there informed us that they were waiting for the other Mercs to arrive. So we took some pics and directions and headed to the venue. When we reached the venue at around 8-30 AM only to find a few cars like the Bentley, CLS63 and the 123-registered F430 already present.

The "exotic" cars started rolling in at sharp 9 - starting with Gautam Singhania's entries - Lamborghini Gallardo, Ariel Atom, Lotus Elise, Ferrari 348 and the 1000bhp Nissan Skyline. Thankfully none of his cars were decorated with the Zapp or Park Avenue stickers (except for the Nissan). The next to turn up was Autocar India editor Hormazd Sorabjee, in Sanjay Dutt's Ferrari 599. This is the first time I was seeing the Ferrari 599 and I must say - Ferrari have indeed blended modern technology and a classic design to make the 599. I'm sure this design is not going to grow out on me - no matter what models replace the 599.

Then was the turn of the "Sportscars" like the Cayman S (no offence Dante, your car really looked beautiful), the Nissan 370Z, the Jaguar XF-R and the Can-Am Spider. The reactions around the Can-Am was a mixed one and for a moment even the guards were wondering whether the 3-wheeler turned up at the wrong event. However this was not the only non 4-wheeler at the event.

The next lineup was one of the most amazing and rev-filled one. 3 Gallardo's turned up together one behind the other. The white LP-560, yellow Gallardo SE and blue Gallardo. It was really a sight to see and more so when I saw Dippy in the passenger seat of the LP-560.

Another amazing thing was the M-lineup. An M3 Coupe, M5 and M3 convertible. No honking - just revving seemed to have been the style there. But I must say the way the 3 cars revved at the entrance - it was amazing!

Anyways enough of talking and let the pics do the talking. Have around 500 pics of the event, but since most of the pics have already been posted, I will only post one pic of all the cars.

Once again - a big hand to Hormazd Sorabjee, Gautam Singhania and all the organisers who made this event a memorable one for everyone.

Pics in chronological order :
The Panamera being readied for the rally.

The CLS63 and SL63 AMG at Inox waiting for the other Merc to arrive.

Porsche entered through the Exit by mistake and had to turn back The Ferrari F430 Spider and the Bentley Flying Spur Speed were already present by the time we reached. Cars entering the venue. Started with Gautam Singhania's Lamborghini Gallardo..