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CarWale Awards - India Has Spoken!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008 1,646 Views

Don’t blame me, please, for not having posted anything in here any sooner. It was quite an event for all of us and everyone was in high ‘spirits’, if you know what I mean! All the guests present were happy and feeling merry. The event started with the propitious diya-lighting ...

Budget 2008: Automotive Connection

Friday, February 29th, 2008 1,404 Views

Budget – something that’s been scaring the hell out of everyone. And now that it is out, scare is a past tense for many. It was heartening to see that the budget was focused towards the common man and the farmers. The budget focused on essential sectors like agriculture, education, ...

CarWale Awards kicks off in style!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 1,132 Views

CarWale Awards are here. And how! Acting as a tool to connect the consumers with the automotive world, CarWale Awards is a platform to commemorate the car makers for their effort. But like every good film has an interesting twist, CarWale Awards too has an element of uniqueness to it. ...

‘Write’ to win!

Monday, January 7th, 2008 889 Views

Automotive journalism. Everyone goes "wow, it's so cool" whenever we tell them about our profession. All we do is smile and reply with modesty overflowing from within in words like "it is a dirty job, yes. But someone's gotta do it." And then the whole room bursts into laughter! You ...

Road to success?

Monday, December 31st, 2007 1,340 Views

New Year. New hopes. New resolutions. New aspirations. And owning a car, for some or many, is still quite an aspiration. I am not going to go blabbering about on what all new cars are going to enter the Indian market in 2008. We will eventually write about them, but ...

CarWale’s co-founder makes it to the top 25 entrepreneurs list!

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 23,573 Views

It's all in the mind, and Arun Kumar Sahlam - "the brain" of CarWale - as he is called by many in the office, has grey matter that is always overflowing with ideas and concepts. Some are eccentric, but the way this young, quiet, humble, witty and outright down-to-earth entrepreneur ...

Every 4 seconds a used and every 2.5 seconds a new car is searched at CarWale.com

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 1,691 Views

There was mad rush of e-commerce portals and every one was hoping that internet will change we buy stuff. Consumers were hopeful of getting best deals and manufactures were excited on the prospects of reaching end consumer directly cutting middle-man cost.

Loan Interest Rate Calculator/EMI Comparison Tool Launched

Monday, October 8th, 2007 3,501 Views

When it comes to car finance, the first thing that strikes in mind is 'what is the interest rate?' But unfortunately bank executives don't tell you interest rate, the all they tell you is EMI! Without knowing the interest rate, you really can't figure out how good or bad a ...

Yipee! CarWale.com one of the top 100 Asian companies!

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 1,534 Views

Yesssss! This is certainly THE news of the moment! It was great to be in the top two-hundred, but this - the inclusion in the top hundred - is a feeling that we cannot even begin to describe.

CarWale.com Independence Day Survey/Review Awards Announced

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 1,399 Views

We are happy to announce results of CarWale.com Independence Day New Car Survey/Reviews. Total 24 reviews were short-listed, among which just two could make it to the finals.

CarWale among Asia’s 200 hottest companies

Friday, August 10th, 2007 1,735 Views

It's cool. Red Herring just told us that we are among 200 hot companies and in a month we'll know whether we are in top 100 as well! As I see the list, we are among barely 10-15 companies from India and probably the only company in Automotive space in ...

CarWale.com launches Money Back Guarantee for car sellers

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 1,822 Views

CarWale.com today launched Money Back Guarantee for car sellers who are willing to pay for their listings. There are certain terms and conditions applicable, if one follows them and his car doesn't get sold in 90 days of its listing, full money will be refunded. Value package (pay per response) ...

CarWale Used Car Valuation Guide includes ten more cities

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 2,524 Views

CarWale Used Car Valuation Guide is now available for ten more major Indian cities. These cities are Pune, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Surat, Coimbtore, Faridabad, Trivandrum, Ghaziabad and Cochin. The guide already had Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan.

CarWale Magazine - Mumbai Classified

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 6,478 Views

Last Sunday, I was roaming around at VT, while passing by a roadside magazine stall, I caught glimpse of something familiar. I saw CarWale magazine placed in auto magazines column. Though it wasn't the first time I saw CarWale magazine at a stall but it game me a joy, satisfaction, ...

Goodbye Spam…

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 1,393 Views

Today we successfully implemented Captcha Image spam protection in CarWale Forums. CarWale Blog already has Akismet spam protection. Finally, goodbye spam. :-)