Chennai - Imports, Sportscars & Exotics

[ph03n!x]

Originally Posted by nickatnite

I know the car in the pic is quite common, but this is the first one i saw that had yellow taxi plates on it.

The Park Sheraton, as well as a few others have Mercs in the yellow. I think there is a rental agency too in Chennai that has 'em.

[mail4ajo]

Originally Posted by neoranjit

Am sure it was not a TN reg but a MH or KA. It had a single digit reg no..

Its a KA registration, if I remember right. Spotted often in Jafferkhanpet. A brand new white Bentley has landed in Chennai, spotted at Gemini.

[Gypsyman]

Guess, It seems there is a HUMMER in chennai, its persumed that MK Stanley owns it and is in his Velachery house, did any one pounce on it any time

[BEEM3R]

Have none of you seen the White Gallardo Spyder in Chennai? Its been doing the rounds for the past 3 weeks or so!

[jayguar]

Originally Posted by ph03n!x

The Park Sheraton, as well as a few others have Mercs in the yellow. I think there is a rental agency too in Chennai that has 'em.

Bala tourist service at Nungambakkam has Merc S class

[lancer&shogun]

Originally Posted by Gypsyman

Guess, It seems there is a HUMMER in chennai, its persumed that MK Stanley owns it and is in his Velachery house, did any one pounce on it any time

YES, its a gift from his son on his birthday and my friend(dealer) has only involved on buying that vehicle.

[Sivasankar]

Hai Maverick & ppl,

I once had a lucky peek into the Subba Rao Avenue house, didnt knw they also had a Rolls, so that makes it 2 in Chennai, 1 belongs the India Cements family (pic featured in one of the posts here & there r a coupla vdos on youtube)

if iam right, Subba Rao avenue is the home town residency of a huge Middle East business family.

btw the yellow Superleggera was featured in a Tamil weekly with its owner who incidentally also imported the first 7 series in Chennai; all his cars carry his signature '123' number.

[praveen_v]

Originally Posted by mail4ajo

Its a KA registration, if I remember right. Spotted often in Jafferkhanpet. A brand new white Bentley has landed in Chennai, spotted at Gemini.

I live in jafferkhanpet. Never seen it

[Thad E Ginathom]

May not be quite in the same league, but I saw a Volvo S60 being driven on the ECR the other day.

I think it said V8 on the front grill. V8 engine? Could it have been?

It looked very new, and was being driven very carefuly!

[iraghava]

It should be an S80 Nick, you sure it said S60?

See their model range here: All Models - Volvo Models - www.volvocars.com/in

[Thad E Ginathom]

Yes, you must be right on that.

S80 V8 AWD (315 hp)


* Eight-cylinder 4.4 litre petrol engine
* 440 Nm torque at 3950 revs
* 0 to 100 km/h in 6.5 seconds
* Six-speed automatic transmission

Wow! I've always liked the Volvo look, even back in the days of the square box estate. The more recent cars are beautiful.

But it is another car (like the Golf) that made its reputation on rugged reliability, but is not as rugged and reliable as it used to be.

[yasw_anth]

Originally Posted by Sivasankar

Hai Maverick & ppl,

I once had a lucky peek into the Subba Rao Avenue house, didnt knw they also had a Rolls, so that makes it 2 in Chennai, 1 belongs the India Cements family (pic featured in one of the posts here & there r a coupla vdos on youtube)

if iam right, Subba Rao avenue is the home town residency of a huge Middle East business family.

btw the yellow Superleggera was featured in a Tamil weekly with its owner who incidentally also imported the first 7 series in Chennai; all his cars carry his signature '123' number.

i've seen these cars(123) many times in Sri Ramachandra medical college porur.

which includes a red 2 door mercedes slk, green BMW 7 series, many more...

[nitrous]

OT:

Originally Posted by sivasankar

if iam right, Subba Rao avenue is the home town residency of a huge Middle East business family.

Yeah. The name sounds very middle eastern.

Originally Posted by lancershogun

YES, its a gift from his son on his birthday and my friend(dealer) has only involved on buying that vehicle.

You're a friend of Deepak's?

[JayR]

The India Cements RR was apparently the 2nd one in the country, the first as everybody knows, the Poonawalla one. Is it true ?

[ajmat]

Originally Posted by JayR

The India Cements RR was apparently the 2nd one in the country, the first as everybody knows, the Poonawalla one. Is it true ?

Nope, it was the white one in Hyderabad