Finally a team member! Thanks a lot to the moderators for approving my membership. It feels great to be a part of the TEAM.
I am Akhil, 35 years old, an electronics engineering graduate but a chemistry teacher, coaching students preparing for the IIT entrance examinations at a leading coaching institute in Mumbai. Apart from cars I also follow Cricket and Lawn Tennis a lot. Roger Federer is my all time favourite.
I came to know about team bhp surfing randomly on internet when I was looking to buy my first car in 2011. I have been hooked to team bhp since then and have unsuccessfully tried 4 or 5 times before my membership finally got approved today. This truly made my day. I got Hyundai Fluidic Verna as my first car in 2012. That time I was in Bhopal . It was the fancy set of features and the powerful 1.6 CRDI that attracted me then.
Unfortunately I met with an accident, the car was totaled but I got saved by the 6 airbags. My job brought me to Mumbai but the insurance claim took its own sweet time to settle.
My liking for the Verna made me get another Verna in the year 2014 even before I got the claim of my totaled Verna. I drove it for almost 50000 km in and around Mumbai for almost 2.5 years. It was in 2016 October that the insurance claim of my first verna got settled after some legal battles with the insurance company. It was then when I let go of my second Verna to get my dream car Skoda Octavia 1.8 tsi. It's the style plus version( didn't have the L&K model on Octavia then).
I have had numerous road trips to Mahabaleshwar, Lonavala, Goa by both My Verna and Octavia and team bhp has helped me immensely in planning my trips preparing my car , etc for the journey. In between I got married and have done quite a few road trips ( self drive trips) in Europe. We did a 13 day tour to Italy in the year 2017 where we rented a car on our arrival at Rome airport and retruned the car at our departure . We drove almost 3000 km and covered almost the entire geography of Italy. We also had a wonderful road trip in Switzerland in 2015 where I got to drive a Volvo V40.
I would like to particularly mention our road trip in Norway, Sweden and Finland chasing northern lights in February 2019. We got a Volvo V60 and drove on ice/snow covered roads throughout that trip.
So, all in all I just wanted to express that I love cars and I love driving and I am very excited to be a part of this forum.
Last edited by ampere : 3rd August 2020 at 19:04.
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