0 Comments The Indian aftermarket community lost one of its brightest stars, Arush Vohra, on April 20, 2021. Based out of Delhi, Arush, owned the famous aftermarket tuning shop Autopsyche which was one of the biggest names in the country. He had carved out a brand in the northern part of India when it came to both visual modification or custom paint work and tuning mods - especially European brands like Volkswagen, Skoda and BMW. Not only was Arush a forerunner in the tuning community but also someone who was well respected by a vast strata of petrolheads for well over a decade and a half.
Skoda Kushaq B-segment SUV for India, March debut
7 January 2021 7:43 pm / 0 comments
Skoda has confirmed the name of its new budget B-segment SUV, designed for India and other “promising” developing markets. Called the Kushaq, the crossover will make its world premiere in March.
The moniker is derived from the Sanskrit word
kushak, meaning “king” or “ruler”, with the obligatory switch of the final letter to fit the Czech carmaker’s SUV naming conventions. The car itself will be the production version of the Vision IN, which was showcased at the Indian Auto Expo last February.
The Kushaq differs from the existing Kamiq in that it’s based on the MQB A0 IN platform, a variant of the latter’s MQB A0 that’s been tailored for the Indian market. If the Vision IN was any indication, the new model will be slightly larger than its European-market counterpart – the show car measured 4,256 mm long (+15 mm) and 1,589 mm tall (+36 mm) with a wheelbase of 2,671 mm (