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From exclusive car phones to DVD players for the dashboard, the automobile section at the MetroPlus Lifestyle Show is a veritable display of technology
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AUTO ATTRACTION At the MetroPlus Lifestyle Show
Automobile security systems is Pricol's forte, but the company is no slouch in the other segments of the car accessory business. Want proof? Visit the MetroPlus Lifestyle Show. The evidence comes floating in the air as thumps loud enough to be felt way off the automobile enclosure. The sound system set up in an Innova by Xenos, which is part of Pricol, draws loud throbs from two pieces of a dual-voice coil, multi-magnet arrangement and another configuration that is fitted with two slightly less powerful sources of sound. An elaborate and artfully placed amplifier formation accompanies these main gizmos that come in two blocks.
That's not all. A DVD player is perched on the dash and 7.2-inch monitors are all over the place — on the sun visor, the windows... in other words, it's car theatre for you.
An exclusive car phone — Nokia 810 — is part of the package. This phone can be used with an exclusive SIM card or can be made operational via bluetooth technology. GPRS-enabled, the phone can be connected to a laptop for net browsing. The whole set of accessories cost about Rs. 4.5 lakh.
Automobile music systems can perform miracles. Some of them can make Madonna sound like Britney Spears. The world over, Boston Acoustics is acclaimed as one of the very few that do not perform such unwanted, uncalled for miracles within your four doors.
Check out this rare sound system ("Which keeps the octave to octave tonal balance equal," says P. Ramganesh, part of the team that markets it) that makes Elvis sound like Elvis, at the Boston stall.
Run your hands over the all-new Corolla, beat the Chennai heat by turning on its super cooling air-conditioning system, see how its SRS airbags inflate in time to save life and limb, press audio controls embedded on its steering wheel and test the sharpness of its intelligent headlamps, at the
Lanson Toyota stall. Even if you have not made a booking, you don't have to leave empty-handed. By guessing the exact number of small glass blobs that lie next to one another in a huge glass bowl, you could win an exciting prize. "The result will be announced on the last day," says Leeza A. Harris, the woman around the stall.
Show Space has carved a niche for itself by erecting elegant structures for auto majors. Earlier in the year, the stalls it put up at the Delhi auto expo received the most number of footfalls. They have done it again — through the TVS stall!
Want to shield your car against sunstrokes? Head straight to the stall that displays an array of Llumar Magnum automotive window protection films.
Sold on Kun Hyundai cars and Honda bikes? You can make your bookings at the MetroPlus Lifestyle Show. Hurry! Time is running out!
PRINCE FREDERICK
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