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    A MATTER OF PERCEPTION

    Mar 02, 2020 5 minutes
    Story: Harket Suchde
    Photography:
    Sanjay Raikar

    IT’S FUNNY HOW PERCEPTIONS CAN SHAPE YOUR OPINION. When I first heard I was going to the track to drive a car which was coming in via CBU (completely built-up) with an on-road sticker of rupees one crore and had “fire” in its name, I got properly hyped up. The hype in this instance, though, wasn’t real. Turns out the track was a test-track, not a racetrack, the car was actually a van, and the “fire?” Well, this van is also called the Alphard in some markets, so that just seems like a deliberate misdirection. Now I am a proper car guy, so even though the prospect wasn’t as tantalizing as I had built it up to be in my head, I was still looking forward to this drive. That was until I got to the track itself. Before I had even had a chance to take a look at

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