Here’s a summary of my drive to Lonavla in a Tata Bolt.
1. First stop: Cafe Infinito in Bandra where we were given the lowdown on the map route, our tasks, our team and the car.
Bolt breakfast. Eating bacon after years! Will have to run double this week. #boltdrives pic.twitter.com/QfkoOvcVwg
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
2. The organisers: Blogadda (the ones who invited us), Tata Motors and Wizcraft showed us a small presentation. One interesting thing about the car:
The car understands 8 Indian accents including Punjabi. #boltdrives lol, cute. pic.twitter.com/etzJ7M9irb
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
3.Our first activity at BKC was the suspension test. Creative idea.
Now we’re gonna play join-the-dots when the #boltdrives on the speedbumps to test suspension. Fun pic.twitter.com/8ggQTGjeaj
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
4. While we were at BKC, we noticed this young kid riding a mini-bike on the road with his father riding behind him.
Kid riding a bike at BKC. Wonder what it runs on. pic.twitter.com/01jm6UceMc
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
Got some interesting reactions to the tweet. Also found out about that it’s a 50CC bike.
5. Through the trip, we had a virtual companion… Captain Bolt. He was tracking our speeds and route via GPS. Nice company but a ‘real-world’ Captain Bolt would have been better for selfie-takers.
Captain Bolt called. He has a sexy voice but can’t see him. Le sigh. #boltdrives pic.twitter.com/wEkJyPicDC
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
6. In the car, I found GoodDay Chunkies. Finally got to taste them and I have to say they are yumm!
The new Good Day chunkies are yumm! Thank you @blogadda and @tatabolt for the snakes :p pic.twitter.com/15PklAxhw7
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
7. The bloggers were divided into teams of three. We drove the Diesel version of the Bolt halfway and then tried the Revetron version (Petrol).
Here’s me and my team taking a selfie at a pitstop
My team today. Drove the Bolt to Tiger Point but couldn’t find tiger @bisprad @Lanzomaniac 🙂 #boltdrives @blogadda pic.twitter.com/WHDLuTsSRD
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
8. On the way, in the middle of nowhere… (somewhere near Khalapur actually – between Mumbai and Pune), we see these skyscrapers and wonder who would want to live in them. 9. Our final stop was Tiger Point, or Lion Point (a board called it Lion’s Point). Basically the point where you can see no real wild animals. It is just a place where they once lived, perhaps? I took a pano of the ‘point’. Not suitable for a summer visit (Thank God our cars had ACs) but I’m sure it’s spectacular in the monsoons.

10. My favourite feature of the Bolt. It’s eyes.

9. While returning… I love these butterflies on streetlights.
I like these butterflies. pic.twitter.com/SKJuZfdxJW
— mahafreed (@mahafreed) April 19, 2015
Finally, here’s our review of the Tata Bolt:
A Sunday well spent at #BoltDrives with BOLT from TATA Motors in association with BlogAdda.
More coming up.
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