{"id":285594,"date":"2010-02-06T02:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/introduce-yourself\/74996-old-member-but-new-team-bhp-fan.html"},"modified":"2010-02-06T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T07:41:31","slug":"old-member-but-a-new-team-bhp-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/285594","title":{"rendered":"Old Member but a New Team-BHP Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Name<\/b>: Ashwin Iddya<br \/>\n<b>Age<\/b>: 30 years<br \/>\n<b>Occupation<\/b>: I run a small internet search engine marketing firm in Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rides<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>Hero Puch (2 Gear) &#8211; Served me well in college<br \/>\nYamaha RXG &#8211; My ride on my first job<br \/>\n1.8 Optra LT &#8211; My drive after becoming an accidental entrepreneur<\/p>\n<p><b>Car related interests<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Serious amount of out-of-bangalore travel with friends. The car has done 100,000 km in 5 years. Plus my friend&#8217;s car which is used for such holidays has done another 30,000 km in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Buying new tyres &#8211; for some reason, I love the grip and ride quality of the car in new tyres \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For some reason, I find all cars &quot;good&quot; &#8211; whether it is driving a Fiat Uno or a Hyundai Accent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I like cars with good ride quality. I don&#8217;t like revving too much. However, on empty ghat roads, the devil takes over sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Non-car related interests<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an avid stock market investor. 90% of my savings have been going into equities since I started earning in the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>And before you ask, I think &#8216;Hero Honda&#8217; is the best automobile stock to buy in India. <\/p>\n<p><b>Why Team-BHP<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>Although I joined team-bhp long time back, I didn&#8217;t have the time for it. But now I have become a big fan because of all those new car reviews (Figo, Beat, Cruze, Manza etc) that hit Team-BHP before I get my hands on <i>Autocar India<\/i> or <i>Overdrive<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Ashwin Iddya Age: 30 years Occupation: I run a small internet search engine marketing firm in Bangalore. Rides: Hero Puch (2 Gear) &#8211; Served me well in college Yamaha RXG &#8211; My ride on my first job 1.8 Optra LT &#8211; My drive after becoming an accidental entrepreneur Car related interests: &#8211; Serious amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}