Team-BHP Account Locked

I got 3 mails saying someone tried to access team-bhp account using wrong password. All 3 with different IP address as below: 141.105.65.70 186.205.41.251 120.203.1.250 is that real hijacking attempt or prank email?

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Brazil Grand Prix- Vettel breaks record

With his 15th pole of the season, Vettek broke Mansell's record. Qualifying 1 Vettel 2 Webber 3 Button 4 Hamilton 5 Alonso 6 Rosberg 7 Massa 8 Sutil 9 Senna 10 Schumacher di Resta missed Q3 and was 11th

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A very very happy hello to all

Hello All. I finally made it to Team-BHP after my second attempt. Very proud to be a BHPian. And I am about to take delivery of my new Ford Figo 1.4 TDCi Titanium tomorrow, 27th Nov'11. Very very excited. I want to thank everyone whose posts I read and finally made the decision to buy the Figo. I also like to thank and appreciate all the mods for running this site and its content wonderfully. You guys ROCK! I will post my ownership experience once I clock a few miles with my car. Lastly a little about my self. I am 32, work as a Business Consultant for a MNC in Bangalore. I love cars and own a Ford Ikon Flair which I am selling as of now. And I love Team-BHP. Best, Sam

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Special edition Ford Fiesta launched in Britain

Ford has launched the Fiesta Metal Special Edition with plenty of enhancements to talk about. The power of the 1.6-liter petrol engine has been upped from 120PS to 134PS and 0-100kph comes up in 8.7 seconds. Ford have lowered ride height, chromed the exhaust tips, appointed the interiors with black leather seats stitched with silver thread and thrown in stainless steel scuff plates. Only 1,000 models of the Metal Special Edition are going to be produced making it a rare breed. I can guess your reaction when you observe the sticker on it that has 12.75 lakh rupees written on it!

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Scoop! Toyota Land Cruiser Facelift Leaked!

Toyota Land Cruiser Facelift brochure scans leaked! Please move to Int'l Section if found irrelevant here. Source Attached Images

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Spicybids.com - fraud website?

Dear friends, just thought I would warn you about this fraud website and how they cheat people, my friend has experienced the same as mentioned below and lost a lot of money, I have copied the following article from the Internet, and I am sure it is true as we have experienced it. :Shockked: Cheating People By Bidding Spicybids is a fraud website. The concept behind the fraud is to make people bid and do not give them any products. And they charge for each bid. This is how it works. A consumer has to register and pay money to buy bids. For Rs.3200 they give 100bids (they have different rates for different numbers). Once you buy bids, you can start bidding. For each bid that you click they charge around Rs. 32 (again depends on the bids that you buy). When the bid is about to close, some one can bid again and the timer extends for 20 seconds. This will countinue till no one bids, and the last bidder wins the product. Now I'll explain how the company is making others fraud. First point, if you keep a close look, you will see that the products keep repeating (because they are showing the same products again and again). Second point, consumers also keep repeating (are there only handful of people to bid in a website in a country as big as INDIA or World?). Third point is, if a consumer starts bidding, the bid will continue and won't end at all, till the same repeating users win the bid) Moral of the story is some one has started a website and they are minting money by collecting money just to bid in the website and they make sure some of their own company staff itself gets the product. This way they get money and they don't have to sell any product. That is why the product & the users keeps repeating. And if a consumer who is not from their company bids, the bid will not end. You can try this out. Keep bidding for a '15free bids'. The value will keep increasing and will not end (May go more than 70-80). And if you check the winners area you will see that generally '15free bids' go for Rs.3-20. Please avoid using this website. And I request the responsible people to take action against the owners of this website.

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My new Cruze - the Sand Drift Grey Beast

So I finally got my Chevy Cruze on the day I got my new job. I think it's a good omen. It's a Sand Drift Grey LT model. It was either this colour or black for me. But I've already had a black Honda City so I was inclined towards the Sand Drift Grey. I'm going to follow the "assembly line" format mentioned in the forum rules to make this simple. 1. Alternatives Considered: The usual suspects Civic, Laura, Altis, Cruze and even the Fluence. My budget was 13-16 lakhs. I was primarily looking for good looks and decent performance. I was not too particular about things like power, resale value and availability of cheap spares. I'd probably chose the civic or altis if I did. Civic is way too common. Also, I read on TeamBHP that it was nearing the end of its product lifecycle with a new Civic due in 2012 Laura had some very nasty reviews and the stories of their after-sales service were shocking. I did test drive it though. The petrol variant. I liked it. But the looks are a bit plain, especially on the inside. This is just a personal opinion. Altis was not really in consideration due to the extremely minimalistic looks from inside. Although the new G&G model does come with a 7" in-dash touch-screen player and some other nice features. Fluence had very negative reviews on TeamBHP although i personally think its a stunner I think it had to be the Cruze for me. Its a beast. I love the way it looks. The 2.0 engine and the body shape makes you feel like you're in a tank on steroids. It took two test drives and extreme R&D on this site (and others) to come to this decision. 2. Booking and Delivery Experience: Very smooth and by the book. My dealer was Ashtavinayak in Goregaon. I had a single point of contact there and the sales person was respectful, knowledgeable and competent. I did have to argue for the car cover and the boot mat but that's a minor thing. Overall good experience and timely delivery. They kept their word on every promise. 3.On-road price, Discounts: About 14L + Customizations (more on that later). I got my own insurance and did not buy insurance from the dealer. I did not know I could do that till someone told me about it. 4. Engine type & variant: Cruze only comes with a 2.0 Diesel Engine. I got the LT Variant (manual transmission) 5. KMs Driven and usage patterns: About 500KM driven. Roughly 30-35 km a day with 80% dense traffic and 20% open highway. 6. Exterior Styling: that's what did it for me. I love it. 7. Interior Design and Quality: The design is simply awesome. It's ergonomic and looks hot. However I had read that the quality of plastics and button/knobs are not as good as the Civics and Lauras. But I am reasonably satisfied with them. No complaints as such. 8. Interior Space and comfort: Ranks high on comfort. Not so much on space. I am 6'2" and I doubt if anyone more than 5'4" can sit comfortably behind me in this car. I had read about dismal head room for the rear passengers but I have not seen anyone have that problem in my car yet. Have the GM people changed something here? 9. Other noteworthy interior points: Great air conditioning, powerful headlamps, basic odometer panel cluster, good looking dash. I was not sure if the LT model would play the ipod. But it does and very well at that. Complete integration. You can scroll all the artists, albums, genres etc from the dash controls. Same for a USB drive. The USB drive will only play the first 10,000 songs though. It says so in the manual. 10. Engine performance: Excellent. But the turbo lag is obvious. The clutch recoil does live up to its reputation of being hard. It does get tough during bumper to bumper traffic, but once the road clears a bit, you will probably leave everyone behind. 11.Fuel Efficiency: honestly i have not kept track of it yet. Watch this space. 12. After Sales service: had my first servicing yesterday. Was effortless. Although they sent someone to collect the car, i travelled with that mechanic to the service centre. Have heard nightmarish stories about parts being replaced by fake ones during service. Especially the famous Skoda story on this forum. But no such incidences thankfully. The ordeal was over in 5 hours. Got my car back on the same day. 13. Other points: I replaced the stock tyres and alloys. Out went JK Vectra 205/60R16. In came Bridgestone 225/45/R17. It was a good decision. The ride quality is much better now. The suspension seems more refined, especially for rear passengers. 16" alloys were replaced with 17" BM racing alloys. Model 7527. I hope it's looking good. I personally loved it. Total cost after exchange was about 40K. Have also added the door garnish. Looks cool at night. Cost 6K (bought from dealer). Looked around for a nice ICE with 7" touch-screen but apparently you need to cut and strip the wires to interface with the existing system. That voids the warranty. So I am still looking for a socket which will help me fit the ICE without voiding the warranty. I know that Caska and Mega Audio are options but if I get this elusive socket, I can probably fit in the Sony, JVC as well. Overall it's been a good experience for the first 500KM. Traffic does give me nightmares with the hard clutch and turbo lag but that probably accounts for a 5% negative experience in an otherwise brilliantly crafted car. Lets Cruze !! Attached Thumbnails

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