India wasn't applying widespread crash testing like foreign countries do, so manufacturers didn't see the need for an investment focus on safety. Customers rarely walked into showrooms asking for the safest car. They wanted the cheapest or the most fuel-efficient or the best-looking car.
Auto major Tata Motors on Tuesday launched a new version of its small car Nano, which has dual fuel option of petrol and CNG, priced between Rs 2.40 lakh and Rs 2.65 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi).
Sanand has catapulted into the big league of automobile industry hubs.
Ratan Tata said he continued to feel the need to support young entrepreneurs who were keen to unleash the Indian tiger.
Gandhi said that while the prime minster was armed with his "government, police, army, governments in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh", he had truth on his side "and we need nothing other than truth".
The new tax regime has also been fuelling sale of SUVs, particularly the compact SUVs
Justice V Gopala Gowda's name has been considered positively by the Trinamul Congress as well as the Left.
Different circuits have been designed, depending on the tourists' preference, connecting the Rann Utsav at Kutch with the ports at Mundra and Kandla.
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The models from Hyundai and Maruti, which might go on sale in October 2018 and February 2019, respectively, are set to revive a segment that had lost sheen to the compact SUV segment, lately
Gandhi said Modi was frequently shifting his campaign plank in Gujarat.
Mamata offered 1,000-acre land at Goaltore and said anyone be it the Tatas or BMW are most welcome to set up an auto plant in the state
The redi-GO will take on Maruti Suzuki's best-seller Alto, Hyundai's Eon, and Renault's Kwid
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"After sinking in Rs 6,000-7,000 crore in the Nano till date, what is the result?"
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Company says that this is a long-term plan as it continues to evaluate options.
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Gandhi said for the first time he has seen that all sections of the society in the state were 'protesting', whether it was the Patidars, Dalits, anganwadi workers or farmers.
'There is a certain irony embedded in this asymmetric geographical distribution of FDI because most state leaders have shed their inhibitions about promoting 'business' and have understood its virtues as a more cost-effective way of replacing the mai-baap welfarism that passed for economic policy till the early nineties', says Kanika Datta.
Government officials working overtime to dismantle the Tata plant and return land to farmers, says Ishita Ayan Dutt.
The distinction between "cheap" and "affordable" is a fine one, but no one understands this better than India's aspirational first-time car-owner, says Kanika Datta.
The price differential has been upwards of 20%.
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Ahead of the international auto show that begins next Wednesday, the Indian auto industry continues to be buffeted with bad news. According to data released by leading automobile companies on Saturday, the industry's sales volumes in January fell about five per cent from those in the same month last year.
These risks would be significantly reduced if the cars had to comply with the UN test regulation for frontal and side impact.
JLR is developing its own autonomous car technologies, which could one day trickle into Tata's more affordable people carriers.
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Every three minutes, in some corner of the country, two Altos are being sold.
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'Tata may have sensed that the suddenness of the decision to replace Mistry would become controversial and it was proper to keep the prime minister informed of the decision,' says A K Bhattacharya.
'So far the youth were Modi's strength.' 'It now seems under pressure, and for good reason: Crisis in education, jobs, slowdown in manufacturing, and thereby trading,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
Nano remains a cautionary tale of misplaced ambitions and a drag on profit.
Apart from around 40 Japanese companies and five global vendors of MG Motor India, many other biggies are eyeing Gujarat for either greenfield opportunities or brownfield expansion.
The company took five years to sell the 250,000 units of the Nano.
The conflict began around Diwali when a group of workers demanded pay hike.
Market watchers believe Tata Motors' move to upgrade the Nano is a right decision.
Discounts range between Rs 20,000 and Rs 80,000.
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