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Maruti Swift: First Impressions

As first impressions go, I came away with a mixed feeling about the Swift. It looks fabulous and drives really well. The power steering gave pin-point control (and this is inspite of the fact that I'm a very ocassional driver). Power delivery seemed to be bit lacking, but I can't be sure, if this is because of the car or because I was tentative and needed to be careful in the Delhi traffic. What really turned me off is the shockingly poor quality of the interiors. Cheap plastic and upholstery just gave a tacky feeling. The inside door handle (molded into the interior of the door) when used to pull the rear door shut gives a feeling that the whole assembly would come off. Similar tacky materials, if you saw the lining near the hatch door. The facia for the music system is a far cry from the Swift one sees in Europe. Leave alone integrated CD player and steering controls, one sees a gaping hole where the Casette Player needs to go in. Surprisingly enough, the outside finish ...

Google Webaccelerator for those who can't get it...

I only read about Google weba ccelerator today and it seems that only North American and European users can get access to it. Now that pissed me off ocmpletely. so I decided to look for it no matter what. So I did a google search . nothing, nada, zip... not to be deterred, I decided to have a look at Yahoo search. So the query google webaccelerator setup .exe throws back the first result as the winner... Drumrolls... the url is... http://webaccelerator.google.com/GoogleWebAcceleratorSetup.msi Ha Ha Ha...