English: The virtual monopoly of Bajaj in the tuk tuk scene is India has now mercifully been broken with the advent of several new makers building more modern vehicles. Some of these are Piaggio, Atul, Mahindra and TVS. TVS tuktuks are more spacious and better finished than the Bajaj. Here is a TVS tuktuk in the southern Indian city of Madras (Chennai). For some reason, several TVS tuktuks bear the 'tourist friendly auto' (auto because tuk tuks are called autorickshaw in India) sign, wonder why. Madras (Chennai) tuktuk drivers are notoriously infamous for their sly and crude ways of ripping off the hapless passenger and taking him for a right royal ride (literally). (Madras/ Chennai, Oct 2009)