I agree with Rtech. Infact i thought of it as starting it as a thread myself. ACI and the rest somehow to induce sales have been giving such news, heightening up emotions and then finally you realise that the car hasnt even come yet. Case in point has been BMW.
BMW for last quite a few years has been wanting to come to India, but their dilly-dallying has meant a hay-day for people at ACI. Look at November 2001, Sept 2002 and so on. All these issues had the so-called 50 cars coming to India in a span of a year, but count the numbers that have come versus those that haven't. You'll be stunned. The magazines never explicitly state things like "launch of this car is on the cards" or "its highly probable that it'd make it here", rather blatant statements most often than not with oozing confidence like "expect it sometime in October next year". Huh? I don't think even the head honchos at the company themselves knew that they'd be launching at such and such date.
I hope these mags which give such beautiful write-ups on cars and well written test drives just stick to it rather than try and titilate us car-lovers. It won't work always.
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