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Realising the need of a thread for athletes who are NOT cricketers, here's a start, courtesy Saina Nehwal.

Picture and video of test drive shared on Instagram. Still "planning" though.

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Link for Video

Saina has previously been awarded cars such as BMW 3-series and Hyundai Creta Anniversary Edition for her achievements.

Source: NDTV

Dipa Karmakar returned the X1 she got and bought an Elantra instead - related thread.

Sachin had originally gifted the BMWs - news.

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Originally Posted by Senna4Ever (Post 4285492)
Saina Nehwal.

Picture and video of test drive shared on Instagram

I have a feeling Jaguar has something to do with this social media promotion.

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Originally Posted by GTO (Post 4285874)
I have a feeling Jaguar has something to do with this social media promotion.

agree: A big fat discount on the car is on the invoice for sure. It's a marketing barter or they maybe are gifting her this very test drive car.

Here is a picture of Baichung Bhutia with his Q5
Pic source: indiancelebcars.blogspot.in

Ace Badminton player Kidambi Srikanth had been gifted a Mahindra TUV300 not too long ago by Anand Mahindra.

Indian Athletes and their Cars-kidambi_tuv.jpg

He now seems to have a Thar too!

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I think Mahindra has had a tradition of gifting sportspersons cars. Here's an image from 2012 when Mary Kom was gifted a Mahindra Bolero.

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Standard 2000 of PT Usha. Surprisingly this is the only image Google shows. There is no picture of her with the car.

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Originally Posted by pedrolourenco (Post 4286473)
There is no picture of her with the car.

Here you go. Car was awarded to her by the Kerala government:
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Source

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Originally Posted by GTO (Post 4285874)

Sachin had originally gifted the BMWs - news.

Slightly off topic, but Chamundeswaranath was the one who gifted the cars, Sachin Tendulkar handed over the keys in the ceremony.

Regards
Shailesh

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Originally Posted by GTO (Post 4286705)
Here you go. Car was awarded to her by the Kerala government:
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the cars in both the pics are different

Abhinav Bindra, India's only individual olympic gold medalist (still) was presented with an Volvo S80 in 2008. Volvo Cars was only an year old in India at that time.

Would be interesting to know if he held onto this rare one.

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Paul de Voijs (right), managing director, Volvo Car India presents the new luxury car Volvo S80 to Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra for his outstanding achievement at the Beijing Olympics 2008 and making India proud by winning a gold medal, in Chandigarh on August 23, 2008
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Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri's A6 and Continental GT

Badminton players Jwala Gutta's BMW and Merc. Ashwini Ponnappa's Audi A6

Source: Cartoq

PV Sindhu, Dipa Karmarkar, and Sakshi Malik were gifted BMWs for their performance at the Rio Olympics.
In addition to the above PV Sindhu was also gifted a Datsun Redi-GO Sport.
Source 1
Source 2

Until few years ago Saina Nehwal was living within my neighborhood and she used to drive BMW X6.

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Originally Posted by Latheesh (Post 4289294)
Ashwini Ponnappa's Audi A6

Source: Cartoq

That looks like an Audi A3 to me.

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Originally Posted by satish_appasani (Post 4289754)
Until few years ago Saina Nehwal was living within my neighborhood and she used to drive BMW X6.

Saina Nehwal received BMW from Sachin for winning a bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012.



Courtesy: Outlook India


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