Pleasant surprise:
Hey there folks,
Here is something that i just noticed... I loggged into teambhp soon after loggin in to office :-) No surprise there...Duh!! But the surprise today was that Honda finally released the Amaze to dealers and as usual our folks were on top of it and we even have pics on our homepage. Good work there...!
Now coming back to the surprise aspect, I went through the post and looked at the changes to specs etc, I was very keen on getting to see the interiors. The only other authentic source that I know of(after teambhp) is the Honda website. So I went there and looked for Amaze in their list of products. Looks like the webdesigners at Honda have been lazy about this. No Honda Amaze (OT: Webdesign, i personally feel, has never been the strength of Honda. That is for the Tatas because their ads are inspirational and a pure delight to watch. Seriously i keep wanting to buy the Safari after their ads). However, enough digressing... Coming back, I still found that little widget-like Honda Amaze announcement, stating that it will come in March 2013. I clicked on it and lo and behold, it takes me to another site dedicated to the Amaze. I am excited as the CSS loads and then i am disappointed to note that there isn't a lot of content. All I could find was Honda was asking for content. They are inviting people to write comments. After such a disappointment, I decided not to write a comment(let alone give my phone number, email and City). Then i saw the buttion that i misread as Amaze Options. On a closer look, i realised that I jumped the gun and it was in fact, Amaze OPINIONS. Well dull as it seems, I saw a couple of faces that I recognized on the first page. Adil Darukhanawala from zigwheels and Nikhil Bhatia from Auto Car India. Well... print media?? really...NDTV etc... at the forefront?? Double really?? Hmmm no one from the online fraternity?? That is when I realised TBHP did not figure there. I resigned with a sigh and humped back into my seat.
Then I looked at the More Reviews button and decided to flip through to see if there are any more reviewers that I know of. I see less prominent people ZEE Busines and News X etc. I was further demotivated. I gave one last try before I simply closed the site. I clicked that More Reviews button one more time. And then I see Cardekho.com etc on the top and .... and... in the second row I see a familiar smile and inspite of the small image, I realise it was the same smile that was showing from the window of the review Honda Amaze in Japan. I read the name and figured it was VID6639... and below his name, in bold letters I see TEAM BHP.COM. Now I am satisfied that I finally found one reason to come back to this site. The online entity, that i have an affinity towards, is recognized although a bit on the later side.
My grudge with Honda is that it should figure this and maybe the other online opinions much before the magazines and TV channels because this is the world of the Web and they are posting this on their site. Obvously when I see something online and want to research about it, i will not run to watch the TV commercials or read about it in the magazines. I will go onto another site, like Teambhp.com and see what they have to say about it. And especially when TeamBhp gave such an honest, well written, unbiased opinion and still had loads of praises for them... Come on Honda it is all online now... SmartPhones, Computers, Laptops, Tablets... Slightly OT: IMHO, we could save so much paper(read trees) if we(of course, talking only about those who have access to the net) could stop reading/using newspapers,magazines etc or atleast reduce it. But then again, that is just me.
Now coming to the opinion; They seem to have done it all in a hurry and hotch potch... No editing... no cutting things short. A simple(i would say callous) copy paste! It starts off with "In 2011, GTO had written..." and towards the end they even have the "Disclaimer : Honda invited Team-BHP for the Amaze.... ". One might wonder whose back they were patting... their own or ours. Well, i feel they simply paid no attention and quoted us Verbatim, which is fine by me in the pure publishing sense but I feel they should have invited a proper Opinion from us where we could also prepare/edit the existing content slightly to give it the Edge over the not so well written opinions of other forums. Well, there is always a next time. Nevertheless, I am happy they published our opinion and I am happy it is in full. Cheers Vidyut and Cheers TeamBhp! We rock!
Thank you for reading through this rant patiently or atleast skimming through it...
And for the prize, here it is.
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