![]() ![]() Over the past three years, Thackeray has witnessed the public jostling for power between his son and his nephew, Raj Thackeray. The party that he created and headed for over four decades has been steadily losing direction and credibility among its supporters. The Sena patriarch is 76 years old and reputedly in poor health. What prompted Thackeray, who has determinedly kept the top position for himself, finally to choose a successor? Plainly put - intimations of mortality and the Assembly elections in 2004. He will continue to dictate to and guide the party, but will reduce the number of his public appearances. Thackeray has not stepped down from his self-appointed position of supreme leader. On January 30, at a party conclave in Mahabaleshwar, Thackeray's son Uddhav Thackeray was chosen as the Shiv Sena's executive president. ![]() SHIV SENA chief Bal Thackeray has had much to say against dynastic succession in the Congress(I), but he has no qualms about practising it in his own party. ![]() The other contender, Raj Thackeray, makes way for him but the party is evidently polarised on the issue of succession. Despite the sense of overfamiliarity after living with the Civic, it still makes me smile every time I look at it.Bal Thackeray's son Uddhav is chosen the new leader of the Shiv Sena. In fact, I find myself always reaching for the nicely crafted paddles, except when I’m driving in town where I let the CVT do its job.īut do you know what I like best about this car? It’s the design. In ‘S’ mode, the transmission software holds onto a ratio like in a manual and the downshifts too are pretty effective. Use the steering-mounted paddleshifters to select the pre-set ratios and the gearbox feels genuinely sporty. The 1.8 i-VTEC feels like the oldschool engine that it is, and even gives a bit of a bad name to the CVT, which is not as dire as it’s made out to be. It’s got a flat mid-range and needed to be worked hard to keep pace with some of the faster cars on the Wai ghat before Mahabaleshwar. The weakest link in an otherwise very well-conceived car has got to be the rather underwhelming (for a Honda) 1.8-litre naturally aspirated engine. Low Aspirations: 1.8 naturally aspirated engine underwhelming. ![]()
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