[arzala]

Hello BHPians;

Thank you for giving me opportunity to be member of this community. This is Anirudh and Greetings from Vadodara (Gujarat). I run an ITES company and provide various solutions to online media, classified & e-commerce industries.

Since childhood I love cars. During that time, we used to count number of cars passing on roads by looking through window from my room. I loved those colorful Maruti 800s (I believe that model was offered in more colors than today).

After completing study, I started my career around 2001 as Software Developer in a company and luckily got chance to work on a project to build online classifieds to buy and sell used cars in Finland (https://www.nettiauto.com). This portal is now no. 1 in it's category and still uses 70% of it's original code even after almost 20 years. Here childhood love turned into passion about cars. By working on this and similar other projects worldwide, I got considerable horizontal knowledge about worldwide automotive industry and cars. I also made up my mind to buy following car when I could afford.




Today I can afford to by this one but sadly this look & feel and configuration is not available and BMW 3 series has received lot of facelifts and engineering upgrades. So my interest from this car gradually vanished.

I bought my first car Indica Xeta GLS in 2008 as. During searching various information about cars in India during that time I stumbled upon Team-BHP and since then I have been using it for various purposes like getting help about running and maintaining cars, new car reviews, trends in Indian and Foreign auto-industry etc. Gradually I also felt to become member of the community to share my knowledge, opinoin, help etc. on various topics. That's why I am here.

After driving Indica Xeta GLS, I bought Fiat Punto 1.3 Active and finally now have Ford EcoSport Titanium TDCI. In future I would like to upgrade to Tata Harrier 7 seater version or XUV 5OO (or any other similar 7 seater SUV).

Apart from Motoring, My hobbies are Off-roading (mostly on bikes), Traveling and Astronomy.

[Aditya]

Hi Anirudh,

Welcome to Team-BHP. Good to have you here.

Originally Posted by arzala

After completing study, I started my career around 2001 as Software Developer in a company and luckily got chance to work on a project to build online classifieds to buy and sell used cars in Finland (https://www.nettiauto.com). This portal is now no. 1 in it's category and still uses 70% of it's original code even after almost 20 years.

Really nice to know this. Well done.

Here childhood love turned into passion about cars. By working on this and similar other projects worldwide, I got considerable horizontal knowledge about worldwide automotive industry and cars.

Feels good when our childhood dreams are converted to career goals. I wish you all the best in your quest for acquiring your dream car.

I also made up my mind to buy following car when I could afford.

Today I can afford to by this one but sadly this look & feel and configuration is not available and BMW 3 series has received lot of facelifts and engineering upgrades. So my interest from this car gradually vanished.

I suggest you look at the used car market. You'll surely find a sweet deal on the old 3.

After driving Indica Xeta GLS, I bought Fiat Punto 1.3 Active and finally now have Ford EcoSport Titanium TDCI. In future I would like to upgrade to Tata Harrier 7 seater version or XUV 5OO (or any other similar 7 seater SUV).

That's quite a lot of cars that you have owned. We'd like to have detailed ownership reviews from you.

Apart from Motoring, My hobbies are Off-roading (mostly on bikes), Traveling and Astronomy.

You'll find threads on almost all the subjects that you have mentioned on the forum.

Please take some time to go through Team-BHP's posting rules.

See you on the forum.