Auto makers step up efforts export cars and offset adverse impact of foreign exchange fluctuations.
The industry needs stimuli to help revive consumer demand and conversions.
Passenger vehicle sales continue to drop in June; Maruti, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Toyota witness decline. Mahindra & Mahindra, however, reported a 4 per cent growth.
The historic 10 millionth car is a Metallic Breeze Blue WagonR VXi, with chassis No 243899 and was rolled out from the company's Gurgaon plant.
India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India tightened its grip in terms of best selling cars with six of its models featuring in the top-10 list for the just concluded fiscal.
It's Maruti all the way, with four out of top five coming from its stable.
So at the beginning of the current financial year when the domestic automobile industry started to depict the first signs of a slowdown, MSIL resolved to intensify focus on such niche segments to bring in the additional numbers.
Police are awaiting medical reports to confirm if the actor was drunk at the time of the mishap.
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Cumulative sales of India's top passenger vehicle makers -- Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Motors, Honda Cars, and Toyota Kirloskar -- increased to 206,418 units in February over 200,322 units in the same month last year, an increase of 3 per cent.
For the longest time the Polo GT had no real competition in terms of its build quality and product positioning. Until now, says Pavan Lall.
Maruti Suzuki continues to dominate the Indian automobile market with its best-selling cars like Alto, WagonR and Swift. Maruti Alto has maintained its position of India's best-selling model.
The other four models introduced with the alternative fuel option are compact cars Estilo and WagonR, multi-purpose vehicle Eeco and mid-sized sedan SX4.
It will be the first company to come out with factory-fitted CNG cars.
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Maruti Suzuki is offering cash discounts ranging from Rs 5,000 on its hatchback Celerio to Rs 35,000 on entry level Alto800.
Seven years after it announced Nexa, there's no mistaking the seriousness with which Maruti wants the segment to grow, says Pavan Lall.
The company has proposed to launch the 'made-in-India' car in the next three years. Given its nascent engineering strength, the Indian auto co is looking at existing platforms. The company will, therefore, save a fortune by not opting for a completely new car platform. Generally, the cost of developing a new platform constitutes a substantial part of the expenditure incurred on a new car's production.
The unit has a manufacturing capacity of 700,000 cars in two shifts. This means the Japanese major is cutting production by 35,000 cars as higher loan rates and a slowing economy sapped demand for automobiles. Sales at Maruti, 54 per cent owned by Suzuki, fell 7 per cent in October. India is the biggest global market for Suzuki, Japan's second-largest minicar maker.
Maruti Udyog on Wednesday reported a 7.1 per cent increase in domestic sales in January at 48,526 units.
The A3 segment (Swift Dzire and SX4 sedans) sales grew by 36.5 per cent to 8,995 units in January 2010.
At least two persons were killed and over 10 injured when suspected ULFA militants triggered a blast at a market area near the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) headquarters at Maligaon at around 6:30pm on Friday.
In a bizarre incident, a man drove his car onto the pitch during the Ranji Trophy match between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh at the Airforce ground in Palam, New Delhi, a major security breach which left both the players and officials dumbfounded.
Helped by softer interest rates on vehicle loans as well as their better availability, the country's top car makers posted healthy sales growth in July.
In a rare face off, captains of the auto industry have hit out at the government for not walking the talk. At an industry event in the capital on Wednesday, R C Bhargava, chairman of India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki, and Venu Srinivasan, chairman of TVS Motor, questioned the government's intent to support the auto sector. Revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj sat in the audience listening, before his turn came to counter them.
Auto maker Maruti Suzuki plans to position its upcoming car 'Ritz' at the upper end of the compact car segment that will be powered with a 1197 cc engine.
Maruti Suzuki India growing by a paltry two per cent in January, recorded the lowest growth in this financial year, which could be due to the launch of Tata's Nano.
In the seven months between April and October this year, the Chevy Spark has managed to sell less than 12,000 units, or an average of 1,700 units a month, while its peers Alto and WagonR (Maruti Suzuki) , Indica (Tata Motors) and Santro (Hyundai) have had average monthly sales of 10,000-18,000 units.
Its sales grew 21% to 165,346 units
The country's biggest car maker Maruti Suzuki India on Monday reported 27.4 per cent decline in car sales during November at 47,103 units compared to 64,885 units in the same month last year.
Consumers buying vehicles in exchange for old ones in the used car market (1.1 million cars) prefer to stick to small cars in the A compact segment rather than moving up to bigger mid-sized cars.
Maruti has offered discounts ranging from Rs 5,000 to 35,000 across various models. The discount is on Maruti 800, Omni, Alto, Esteem, Versa and on the petrol models of WagonR, Swift.
To be badged the Opel Agila for Europe, the Splash might also be produced in India by Maruti Suzuki for their export commitment to Nissan Europe, totalling 50,000 units.
The company said its domestic sales increased by 0.7 per cent at 56,411 units as against 56,000 units in June last year. It said the A2 segment, comprising Alto, Zen Estillo, Wagon R and Swift registered a marginal growth of 0.3 per cent at 37,767 units, against 37,646 units in the same month last year.
Maruti Udyog, India's biggest carmaker, has been ranked first in customer satisfaction by international market research firm JD Power.
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Country's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India continues its dominance on the Indian roads, with its four models, led by entry-level small car Alto.
The company said its domestic sales increased by 14.6 per cent during the month at 64,143 units, against 55,952 units in May last year. Hyundai Motor India Ltd reported on Monday a 47.27 per cent jump in domestic passenger car sales at 24,510 units during May, against 16,643 units in the corresponding month of 2007.
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Leading car maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd on Thursday reported a 22.37 per cent increase in domestic sales in April at 59,539 units as compared to 48,652 units in the same month last year.
