MotoSutra contributor
Premium and Luxury Editor · filing since 2023
Tanvi reviews luxury, performance and flagship models for MotoSutra and profiles how premium brands compete in India.
She covers the top of the catalogue across cars and motorcycles.
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News 3 min
The 296 cc parallel twin returns to the Indian lineup at ₹3.45-3.52 lakh in our sample listing, with a circuit-focused accessory package aimed squarely at the Duke 250’s track-day crowd.
News 3 min
The compact SUV keeps its 1.0-litre core and its ₹10.34-17.79 lakh recorded band, while this launch’s sample sheet adds 150 bhp 1.5 TSI automatic variants priced past ₹18 lakh that the catalogue has yet to carry.
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Review 5 min
The recovered Street Triple R page, rebuilt on Triumph India’s 2020 launch specification: what the document states, what it omits, and what was removed.
Review 5 min
A month in a Virtus Highline automatic — 2,300 km of Delhi commute and one long weekend to Jaipur — tested the last serious argument for buying a boot in a crossover market. The 521 litres, the five-star shell and the highway manners all held up. So did the fuel bill.
Review 5 min
A 528-litre boot, Level-2 ADAS and a cabin that isolates you from the road — the Verna sells the sedan dream at ₹17.20 lakh top-end. Then you look at the crash score, and the dream gets arithmetic again.
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Comparison 5 min
A ₹11.79 lakh driver with a hybrid at the top against a ₹10.99 lakh cruiser with 528 litres of boot and Level-2 ADAS — and a crash-score standoff only the Honda wins, at three stars.
Comparison 4 min
Royal Enfield’s 648cc cafe-racer and Triumph’s 1,200cc modern-classic are the two best arguments for buying a twin on looks alone. One costs ₹3.12 lakh, the other ₹9.90, and the gap is the most interesting number in the comparison.
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Guide 3 min
Cubic capacity is the oldest shortcut in the showroom and the least reliable spec on the sheet. What displacement physically measures, where the cc-to-pace link still holds, and the three tricks that break it.
Guide 4 min
No shift points, no shift shock — and one strange side effect millions of drivers call a fault. How a continuously variable transmission works, what the rubber-band feeling is, and how the CVT differs from the AMT, the DCT and the torque converter on the same price lists.
Guide 4 min
Our catalogue lists exactly four electric scooters, so this is not a shortlist — it is the longlist, judged on real distance between plugs, recharge flexibility and what happens when the battery is empty 40 km from home.
