Sunday, June 15, 2008

Indian car lovers on team-bhp

Team-BHP.com Review

While searching for the next forum for a review my intention was basically to find an Indian Forum Board which is highly active with full of useful content and lots of activities among the members and while surfing on subdreamer.com a CMS providing site I noticed link of team-bhp.com as there client and thought to visit it, that time I was unaware of its location or what exactly it is but I got that its an Indian Message Board for all automobile enthusiasts.

I was impressed after reading the history of team-bhp.com that how it started with a couple of friends met online and made there first hangout on msn group to talk about cars and later moved to a free forum board and finally to a bigger shape and also the size.

A very well customized forum for people who love speed, luxury over wheels and to show off there road runner team-bhp is a complete portal for everything related to automobiles, from a review of new car to the suggestions and a community discussions deeply about there experiences and all technical issues related to Indian automobile arena. The home page of team-bhp is giving the first impression with cool graphics and color combination perfectly matches the theme and fit to the purpose of the site. On the submenu navigation two features which really impressed me was “Test drive” and “Advice” . By clicking on test drive a visitor can see a page where there is an option to choose car brands and models basically those cars which are available in India, by selecting the car of your choice and model you can read a detail review written by the owner with upto 10 years of personal experience of that car. This is something very new and looks authentic and different in comparison to other media or automobile review related websites. Moving to next feature when you roll your mouse on “Advice” you will get a drop down with some links like on buying, on owning, on modifying and misc actually its full of articles on different areas of interest related to cars and modifications of cars. One more interesting feature is “Tuner” which is unique and I think first to get in any Indian automobile website. It’s a directory of many tuners and companies / organizations based in different cities of India, which is very easy to find the best for your need. Moving further on the forum part of team-bhp.com any one can figure it out the activity by scrolling down till bottom to see the online stats where you will find more than 1000 visitors every time you visit this site. A very well organized and managed different category of forums and threads one can easily navigate through it, the forum is open to guest visitors so there are tons of important and informative threads which can help you even without taking that small pain of registration. Forum is full of crazy car enthusiast and successfully made a very strong and friendly community around. To the technical part of the forum its made on Vbulletin forum software but not the upgraded version, I guess if they upgrade it with the latest 3.7 then this forum can make more great achievements, well its really doesn’t matter much if the criteria of the admin is different and till team-bhp is powered by those powerful BHPians than I don’t think anyone can shake them up for another 5-10 years.

I really like to hangout on off-topic area where there is so many cool, entertaining and some very important discussions( not cars) going on, That’s a perfect example of a community, because what I know is making a forum into a message board is simpler than making a message board into a community, team-bhp is rocking forum and definitely a rocking future, to the readers of this review I would like to suggest that if you are a new administrator to any forum please do visit team-bhp , I am not any advertisers or promoter of any forum but I would like to help all those who wants there forum to be a successful community, team-bhp is one of my favorite and will remain.

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