2010 Honda DN-01: Review / Road Test

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We were recently in Goa to shoot a few new stories, enjoy a vacation, scare a Maruti-Suzuki salesman and eat a lot of food! Speaking of which, apart from the Calamari and the Lobsters, there is another seafood delicacy that one can enjoy in Goa – it’s the hammer-head shark. But to hardcore foodies like us, this fish looks a tad too dumb to be eaten. We still went ahead and ordered one but its tough, tasteless meat did not impress us one bit and had us order a lot of port wine to wash down the hideous taste. The scenario forced our in-house gyani, Mr. Pradeb Biswas to start a detailed discussion on the various varieties of sharks and how privileged we were to have eaten one! He even defended the hammer-head’s freakish physical form and concluded that the Zen Estilo looked even dumber – to which we all agreed! But that had our discussion branch out into a new direction – how would an automobile look if it were designed to mimic a shark? A few minutes and glasses of wine later, we somehow managed to establish a relation between the ‘DN-01 concept’ that Honda showcased at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show and the ‘face’ of a shark. Our friend and local biker boy from Goa, Ravee, who being a vegetarian and a non-drinker was bored to the core, suddenly sprung up and exclaimed ‘I have a friend in Goa who owns a DN-01!’ All of us raised our eyebrows and grinned…

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