BWI: CarWale Announces Navi Mumbai’s First Vintage and Classic Car Drive – Vintage Wheels

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: CarWale.com
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 05:32 PM IST (12:02 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Automotives, Information technology; Technology; Automotive
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CarWale Announces Navi Mumbai's First Vintage and Classic Car Drive - Vintage Wheels


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, December 01, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- CarWale, India's no.1 automotive portal, gears up for Navi Mumbai's first Vintage & Classic Car Drive - Vintage Wheels this Sunday, 6th December'09. Around 40 Vintage car owners will come together and drive in their pre-1960s cars to Khandala, and will share their experiences. Organized by Sportscraft and sponsored by CarWale, the Drive will flag off from Four Points Sheraton, Navi Mumbai, at 8.30 am, with the participants driving to Duke's Retreat in Khandala where the event will culminate with brunch and an interactive session for the participants. From a Ferrari to a Fiat, any car of the pre-1960 era classifies as Vintage and is expected to participate.

"The drive will bring together car aficionados who own some rare car brands from the yesteryears and bond over a nice brunch. We look forward to see this property take shape and reach a national scale someday," said Mohit Dubey, CEO of Carwale.

"This is a drive and not a rally; there are no winners or losers. It is a cult like the owners of the Enfield Bullet who do a road trip to Ladakh or the Harley Davidson owners roughing it out in Europe," added Srikanth Karani, owner of Sportscraft.

Vintage Wheels drivers will drive down a fixed route from Navi Mumbai to Khandala and back. Registrations for participation close on 3rd December'09. Entries will be accepted strictly on a first come first serve basis. A minimal entry fee of Rs 1500 will be charged per car. Three coupons for brunch would be given per car.

For registrations or more details on the CarWale Vintage Car Drive, contact 022-23677631 from 10:00 am - 5:00pm from Monday to Friday and till 1:00pm on Saturday, or you could write to us at contact@carwale.com / sportscraft@gmail.com.

This event is co-sponsored by MapmyIndia, India's leading GPS navigation device and Software providers.

Ground partners: Inorbit Mall Vash.

Hospitality partners: Four Points Sheraton, Vashi and Dukes Retreat, Khandala.

Some of these cars can also be seen on display at Inorbit Mall, Vashi from 3rd December'09 till 6th December'09.

To keep a track of latest news and updates of the Vintage Wheels drive log on to www.carwale.com.

About Carwale:

CarWale is India's no.1 car portal which empowers car consumers to research and buy their car. CarWale is owned by Automotive Exchange Pvt Ltd and is backed by India's leading early stage venture capital firm Seedfund and top tier US venture fund Sierra Ventures. In last one year they have served more than 10 million Indian car consumers and have influenced approximately $3bn of car transactions in India. Since its inception, CarWale has been honored with many prestigious awards including the Red Herring Asia Top 100 (twice in 3 years), BusinessWeek's Top 25 young entrepreneurs in Asia and PCWorld Web Award for best automotive website.

About Sportscraft:

Sportscraft is a Professional Promotional Events Company, which specializes mainly in Motor Sports across PAN India. Sports craft has pioneered and organized various events like Motorcross, Dirt Track Racing, Women's Car Rally, Car Rally for the Blind, Hill Climbs etc.

About MapmyIndia:

MapmyIndia is India's leader in premium quality digital maps and consumer navigation services. MapmyIndia Maps, has the most comprehensive, accurate, robust and reliable navigable map dataset for all India. MapmyIndia is driving the Indian navigation industry by providing internet, mobile and in-car navigation products to end consumers directly as well as in partnership with leading international and national players.


CONTACT DETAILS
Kavita Jain, CarWale.com, +91 (22) 6739 8888, kavita.jain@carwale.com

KEYWORDS
CONSUMER, MARKETING, AUTOMOTIVE, IT, TECHNOLOGY, AUTOMOTIVE

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