14th June 2010, 23:37
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| Team-BHP Support   |  It really bothers me that no time based score is given for offroading, everybody gets 60 points as long as they collect all the stupid flags. The best and worst offroader gets the same points. If this is about offroading, how about giving some competitive scoring for offroading. Today even the bat cave challenge was not scored on time. As usual Netra goes on and on about Endeavor, does she know that Endeavor won't survive most of the hardcore offroad trails in India? |
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15th June 2010, 06:38
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| BHPian  Join Date: May 2009 Location: Chennai
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| Netra is contractually obligated to plug the Endeavor. I'd like to be contractually obligated to return the favor  |
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15th June 2010, 12:17
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| Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Dubai
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| Ayee! True! Collect 6 flags in your own sweet time and you get full points!!! And for the off roading part, do not understand what benefit Apollo got in this? Just that their name being announced and, in some shots their tires, being shown? This looks like a family serial. :( And about the host, notice that she is always going around and around when she is driving and praising the Endeavor, with Apollo tires, that is! And the best part, Endeavor has reverse camera too! |
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18th June 2010, 21:50
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| BANNED Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Chennai
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| This program is not worth the name. Nothing wrt off roading ,they do branding for Apollo and Ford Endy i pity the guys who wasted their time in it |
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21st June 2010, 23:03
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| Senior - BHPian  | congrats allan. are you going to masai mara ? |
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22nd June 2010, 00:29
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| Team-BHP Support | Congrats Allan and Prithvi on your 1st and 2nd placing. Now I am going to miss all the expert offroading tips by Netra Raghuraman. I was jotting it down religiously during every episode. |
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22nd June 2010, 10:53
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| Congrats Allan & Prithvi, hope you have already taken up your prized trips. Very good communication skills & camaraderie shown by your teams, guess that made the difference. About the show: Guess it was offroader's adventure show rather than offroading show. Was this NATGEO's first Indian show & were they cash-strapped to have brand promotions (Apollo, Spicejet, Woodlands) within the show. Quote:
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24th June 2010, 21:35
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| Congrats Allan. Please post the Travelogue after your trip. |
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29th June 2010, 08:32
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| Quote:
An opportunity to showcase the Indian off road scene was turned into a joke of a program, using its name. Secondly, the program organizers lack of knowledge of off road culture and the disregard to safety, is clearly established. They get the hawks to wear helmets and rig them safe with ropes, but when it is comes to off roading, they blind fold the driver and the co-driver is sticking out the window on a rocky surface. One Hawk could have got her head cracked open if it was a wrong move even at 5 Kmph. While watching this program I was counting the debits, no seat belts, riding outsite the vehicle, running over markers, etc where on an international scale event, the results would have been different. Most of them seem to be riding on high tire pressure, off road, and speeding on road with Lifted Gypsey with big tires and no articulation, Wrong application for the right equipment. (Did anyone see the winch and the lights being used in the series?) I am glad that the program is over without any fatalities, hope the excercise prepped them for the Masai Mara. Cheers | |
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29th June 2010, 13:57
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| BHPian | Congrats Allan and Prithvi. |
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1st October 2010, 16:22
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: New Delhi
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| Hi Guys I am not sure if anyone is following this thread anymore, but just to update that I have put some of the episodes on youtube just in case anyone is interested in viewing it-You can search "tigersingh1984" on the youtube, that's my profile name and you'll find the videos there. Cheers Chandeep P.S:- I am the guy who was Allan's partner in the second episode and then paired up with the Pajero Kid.  |
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