About RoadBeat
India's independent automotive newsroom — reporting on cars, bikes and everything electric since 2019.
Reporting from the ground, not the press kit
RoadBeat started in 2019 as a two-person blog covering weekend test drives around Bengaluru. Today we're a newsroom of reporters, road testers and photographers tracking every car and motorcycle launch, facelift and spy shot across India.
We buy or borrow the vehicles we review, drive them the way owners actually would — through traffic, on highways and occasionally off the tarmac — and write what we find, whether or not it flatters the manufacturer.
No listicle rankings for cash, no sponsored "reviews" dressed up as news. If a story carries our byline, we stand behind it.
The Newsroom
Aakash Rao
Meera Iyer
Devika Menon
Rohit Nair
Editorial independence
Advertising never influences our news coverage or review scores. Sponsored content, where it exists, is clearly labelled.
Original reporting
Our spy shots and road tests are shot and driven by our own team — not aggregated from press releases.
Corrections policy
When we get something wrong, we fix it and note the correction at the bottom of the story.
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