The two petrol models of the Logan are priced between Rs 428,000 and Rs 644,000, while its diesel model's price range is Rs 547,000 to Rs 651,000. The range overlaps the pricing of the premium hatchbacks as well as of mid-size cars.
With around 85,000 road accident deaths every year, the ministry for road transport and highways is considering a proposal to set up a Commissionerate for Safety.
Customers who still want to go in for a loan are opting either for longer maturity plans or making higher upfront payments to control their monthly outgo on loan repayments.
Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines's international service, which is expected to start by January 2008, will be staffed entirely by foreign cabin crew.
Sources close to the development reveal that after hectic negotiations and several rounds of meetings, the choice of brand was a unanimous one.
Road ministry proposes an amendment to Motor Vehicles Act.
Maruti Udyog, which controls more than half of the country's passenger car market on the strength of its dominance in small cars, has embarked on a strategy to increase its share in the bigger car segments.
With consumer preferences swiftly shifting to cars, the two-wheeler market is expected to decelerate in two or three years, after a dream run of over a decade.
Railways initiate project for ad revenues of Rs 4,000 cr.
Indian aviation academies are setting up training facilities abroad where they can churn out pilots as quickly as in eight months, compared to almost two years that it takes in India.
The Railway Board issued a notification a few months ago under which divisional regional managers of certain zones were given financial powers to levy a surcharge from passengers who insist on seeking reservation for lower berths.
BMW, the German luxury carmaker, plans to take on its Asian rivals - Toyota, Honda, Hyundai - with the core strategy of making customised cars from its flexible production lines to stay ahead in its century-old luxury marquee business.
A consultant is being appointed to work out the details of the project.
The price war in the motorcycle market is all set to worsen with large production capacities at tax-free locations in the north ready to go on stream.
Pilot shortages are not restricted to airlines only. Even the corporate sector and private chartered operators are feeling the pinch.
Sales of passenger vehicles in India are likely to grow at 14.9 per cent each year to touch the 2.1 million mark by 2010.
The railways in India may be in the middle of a financial turnaround but China's railway system is still far ahead on most key parameters.
In 2006, components worth $2 billion, around Rs 90,000 crore were exported by Indian companies, 75 percent of which were bought directly by car companies.
In the last two months, two-wheeler sales dropped to single digit (7 percent) compared with an average annual two-wheeler sales growth of over 14 percent (between April-December 2006).
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers will shortly setup Asia's first 'online university' to cater to the education needs of the booming automobile sector fraternity.
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