Gaurav Gombar

Last week or so I made 3 posts which covered the details about launch of Maruti Zen Estilo : Live Webcast of Maruti Zen Estilo launch ; Estilo (MR Wagon) to be lauched in December ; Maruti to launch New Zen - MR Wagon

Finally Maruti has launched the new avatar of the Zen Estilo on 5th December 2006. The company had withdrawn the old Zen. The new Zen Estilo has been priced at Rs. 3.19 Lakh (ex-showroom Delhi price) for the base variant. The top end variant which is priced at over Rs. 4 Lakh offers convenience features like internally controlled rear-view-mirrors, speakers in all four doors and an option of advanced safety features such as ABS and Airbags.

The Zen Estilo is roomier than the original Zen, comes with a bigger engine (1061 cc Wagon R engine) delivering 64 bhp and fuel economy of around 14-16 in the city. It is taller, offers more boot space and superior air conditioning. The Zen Estilo is available in 8 colours, some of the interesting and newer ones are Purple Fusion, Champagne Beige, Virgin Blue and Olive Green.

Zen Estilo is going to be launched today. Further, to associate launch activity on the internet, MUL has planned to do a webcast (live telecast of the launch event on the internet) today from 8.00 pm onwards. This would be the first time in Indian automobile history that a car launch would be webcasted. Visit www.marutizen.com/launch to see the live webcast from 8:00 p.m. onwards today.

The product Zen Estilo is an expression of style and zeal. To compliment the contemporary appeal of the product & keeping in mind the target audience, an attractive website has been designed which will be unveiled today.

The gates to the new website www.marutizen.com will open after the product launch and the Zen Estilo will become the new style statement.

Be a part of this launch online and celebrate your new style icon.

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I found a link to gallery of Michael Hughes on Flickr which displays a set of very unique pictures taken by him with souvenirs in hand in front of those real monuments or natural settings. The concept is really a unique one, now he is working on a book project for this.

India made their debut in Twenty-20 cricket against South Africa 2 days back. Twenty-20 cricket is basically a shortened version of One Day International Cricket match played 20 overs a side. The Twenty-20 is a result of declining crowds in English cricket where English teams performances have been below standards both in Tests & One Day arena to attract youngsters into the game. The other reason for it is that 50 over side match takes almost 8 hours to finish and people were finding it difficult to put it into their schdules.

There have been both positive & negative reactions to this new version of the game which does not really test the ability of the players. The game has become a batsman game where they come and just slog it out for 20 overs and put up a big total. It obviously seems to attract crowds and people enjoy it that takes around 2 hours to finish the whole game and that fits well even for people coming out to stadiums after finishing their work.

I personally like test cricket much more than one day and 20-20 format because their is hardly any strategy for teams to work out with. There is not for teams to bounce back, bowlers are always under pressure and have little role to play but in 21st century, crowds don’t get attracted by all this they want more action wherein bowl goes over fence more and don’t care about bowlers who put in lot of effort and their skills are not really put into test. Time is not far when we might see bowling machines being used in matches and batsman just slogging balls out of the ground.

For rules of 20-20 cricket, click here