The sun picked a nice spot in the sky to shoot its fearsome rays down on us. It's a hot Texan day at the Inks Ranch, a day that demands you sit indoors with a cool beer and bare minimum clothing. It's most certainly not a day for being out in the sun and on any other place on the planet I would have had a raging headache in this heat. Not today. My head feels clear and physically my body could not be enjoying an off-road adventure in the heat this much. This clarity though has little to do with me being physically fit enough for the task at hand and more to do with driving the Wrangler. This is, without a doubt, one of the finest off-road vehicles I have ever driven, and I have driven more 4x4s than you could name. It entirely fulfils both parts of the off-road equation, its ability to go everywhere should be equal to the comfort and stress free experience it provides in stressful terrain. It's no wonder the Wrangler has earned the reputation of being one of the finest off-road vehicles in the world.
Driving the Wrangler was one of the primary incentives for travelling to the United States for the first time in my life. The 22 hour journey to the land of the brave otherwise held little attraction to me. Fortunately this trip to the new world turned out to be truly memorable. I drove across soft sandy
03:22 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian shooting team's campaign in the ISSF Changwon World Cup started on a sour note with all the shooters, including Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, failing to make a mark on the first day of the event in Changwon, Korea on Thursday. Competing in the men's 10-metre air rifle event, Beijing Games gold medal winner Bindra, London Olympian Sanjeep Rajput and Chain Singh -- all failed to...
05:49 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Five pilgrims returning from the Kumbh Mela were killed and eight others injured when a jeep collided with a truck in Jalalpur area, police said on Saturday. The five persons, including three women and two men, were killed when the jeep carrying them collided with the truck on the Lucknow-Varanasi National Highway late Friday night, Superintendent of Police Manjil Saini said. ...
10:16 AM, Feb 16, 2013
Hathras: Sixteen people were killed when a train hit a mini van at an unmanned railway crossing at Hathras in Uttar Pradesh on the busy Delhi-Kolkata trunk route. The accident took place at the unmanned railway crossing near Maidu Railway Station at 7:19 am in the district. The van was carrying 18 passengers, all coming from Sathia village in Sasni tehsil, Superintendent of Police Chandra Prakash said. While 15 people...
09:43 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Dehra Dun: Two persons were killed on Tuesday and as many injured when a jeep in which they were travelling fell into a gorge in Kalsi area here, police said. The accident occurred when the driver of the jeep lost control over the vehicle, while taking a sharp turn and it fell into the gorge, killing one of its passengers on the spot, they said. Another person succumbed to injuries...
04:46 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: One has often heard of couples indulging in acts of affection being rebuked by police officials for misbehaving. However, the tables were turned when a deputy commissioner closed in on a police jeep only to find that a constable was with a bar girl inside the jeep with a businessman. The incident occurred on Wednesday night when Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) Kishore Jadhav was on night duty...
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