Motoring World

I used to be a stern believer that the ‘Pulsar’ moniker had no business being on a 125cc motorcycle. Anyone who had ridden the previous-generation Pulsar 125 would probably agree. It was heavy, slow and, at best, a humble commuter dressed up in Pulsar clothes. So when I was handed the keys to the 2026 Bajaj Pulsar 125, I wasn’t exactly expecting redemption. I was expecting dé...

Two decades ago, the Bajaj Pulsar 150 UG3 made its debut, and it was unlike anything I had ever seen in the flesh. The menacing wolf-eye headlamps, angular tail section, semi-digital instrument console and backlit switchgear… in 2006! And in that all-black avatar, it looked like something straight out of a movie to the then-teenager me.

A lot has changed since then, ha...

Mercedes-AMG has finally put a V8 into the CLE, and it has done so in a spectacularly wild fashion. Meet the new AMG CLE 646 Spezialanfertigung. It’s a sports-coupe that has been developed with the racetrack firmly in mind. As a result, it gets a 4-litre twin-turbo V8 producing 636 bhp and 850 Nm, sending power exclusively to the rear wheels. Only 30 examples will be built, a...

Mercedes-Benz is bringing its latest electric SUV to India, and this time it is doing so rather quickly. The German luxury carmaker has announced that bookings for the new GLC Electric will open in India from the first week of October, with the SUV set to launch towards the end of the year.

More importantly, the GLC Electric will be locally assembled in India, making i...

The Defender is heading back to war, at least in spirit. Land Rover has revived the Wolf name for a new military-spec version of its modern SUV, and this time it wants the Defender Wolf Series II to become the British Army’s next light mobility vehicle. There is, however, one small catch: it hasn’t won the contract yet. JLR is bidding for the UK Ministry of Defence’s Light Mo...