Last Sunday, I learnt how to whistle with two fingers in my mouth. Now don't even try it - it is a dirty learning curve that involves making gory sounds, spraying saliva a good distance and earning confused looks from important people in your life, like your children, and an "I knew something was wrong all these years" gesture from your spouse.
But if do you succeed in emitting a slight squeak after repeated efforts, then you feel that you are on top of the world. I should know, as I have been trying without success for close to three decades.
Some seven years back, BMW decided to learn something new too. They made their first attempt at engineering an SUV after promoting the cause of brilliant rear-wheel driven sedans that built an ardent base of followers who didn't mind paying through their nose for a degree of driving involvement.
As some of you might realise, making an SUV is the antithesis of making a road-hugging sports sedan. It is heavier, taller and generally better appointed than most posh houses in south Mumbai.
Expecting them to go around corners the way only BMWs are supposed to is like asking P Chidambaram to come up with fresh taxation proposals in an election year.
Text: Bijoy Kumar Y
Image: A model poses next to the new BMW X5 car displayed at the 28th Bangkok International Motor Show | Photograph: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images
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