Hey Everyone,

We are glad to say that Rising Stars of The Daily Star Newspaper took the initiative of printing our exclusive coverage of Summer Fest 2008 in The Rising Star Magazine. We, the management of wheelsBD are thankful towards The Daily Star for such coverage. We appreciate their presence in this great event. Special thanks goes to Hitoshi and his news crew. WheelsBD requests all of you to catch the issue of Rising Stars in The Daily Star Newspaper which is published today (Thursday, July 24th 2008). If you can, do share pictures and screenshots of the coverage of this event which was done in the centerfold of the magazine. Once again, this is a great step of promotion for our website and organization. Big clap to the events crew once again!

Online Coverage: http://thedailystar.net/rising/2008/07/04/center.htm

From Rising Stars:

Wheelsbd, the automobile website that is Bangladesh's very own, recently arranged a spectacular three week long event for all the automobile enthusiasts of the country. The event, 'Summer Fest 2008' kicked off on the 27th of June with a rally that started out from the Pakistan Embassy in Gulshan, and this rally that ended at the Bashundhara Convention Center saw enthusiasts show up with their production models as well as their souped up modified ones.

The Summer Fest 2008 could be dubbed as a meet for all the motorheads that Bangladesh sports. It had three car rallies all of which, except the last one, were held on the weekends. And there were on road dyno tests which were the toned down versions of the real dyno test that is obviously very expensive to conduct. The event concluded on the 17th of July with a well organized rally that had a total of 18 cars, 9 of which were of WheelsBD's and the other 9 from 6 different auto clubs of the country. 

The very intriguing part of the whole event was the on road dyno tests that were being carried out at the FFC parking lot in North Gulshan. Mr. Bayezid a student of Automobile Engineering who was conducting the tests and Mr. Salman Khan the President of WheelsBD were there to explain to us the details while they were testing a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer EX. Using a laptop, they were simply collecting data from the engine processor using the OBD Port 2, while they put the car through its paces. And they also found a use for the North Gulshan Avenue Road as they were putting each car through a quarter mile run on that road to see how each car would fare in a drag race. In the end the Lancer EX turned out to produce 113 Nm of torque at 4500 rpm with a total BHP of 96.8. And for the quarter mile run, the Lancer took a not-quite earth shattering 20.17 seconds.

Mr. Tauhid Husain the Chairman of WheelsBD when asked, what wheelsBD looked forward to achieve from this event, replied, “We only wanted to get all the clubs of the country together and join hands to make wheelsBD stronger.”

WheelsBD is already planning for a 'Winter Fest' that is scheduled for the December of this year.