Tata Motors is likely to launch the world's cheapest car as early as January 2008, turning a whole new chapter in the retailing of low cost vehicles.
Maruti Udyog Ltd said on Wednesday that it would record highest-ever exports of 50,000 cars this fiscal.
What we're saying is that on the whole - product, packaging and pricing - Bajaj have more or less hit the nail square on the head.
The global economic downturn made 2008 an unforgettable year.
Bharat Forge on Saturday said the company would be investing over Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) for a greenfield facility in India and set up development centres in foreign locations for product design and development.
Japanese car major Honda will be showcasing a series of new technology cars, including fuel-cell car 'Honda FCX' and hybrid car 'Honda Insight,' at the Auto Expo that kicks off in a few days in New Delhi.
The car sports a gear knob and not the normal stick.
What is your take on small cars? Do you think the hype about Ratan Tata's 1-lakh (Rs 100,000-) wonder is way too much?
If commercially successful, the Tata car will alter the passenger car market in India, and perhaps the world, beyond description.
Maruti Suzuki posted a marginal increase in January and the likes of Hyundai, Ford and Mahindra & Mahindra reporting a single-digit growth.
With India poised to receive its first import of liquefied natural gas, the government has drawn up plans to expand in a big way the CNG supplies to several urban areas in the country.
Bajaj Auto will launch the new P-200 in January 2007.
Even as Tata Motors is working on its ambitious Rs 1-lakh (Rs 100,000) car a Maharashtra-based company Kandaa Motors on Thursday said it is developing a Rs 1.5 lakh (Rs 150,000) car which is expected to be out in next one year.\n\n
Volkswagen group company Audi on Thursday rolled out its luxury sedan 'A4' with a price tag of over 24 lakh
According to reports, by last year, the company has helped its customers save 15 per cent on costs -- around 5-6 per cent on fuel and 15 per cent on fleet utilisation through digital measures.
The Mumbai International Auto Show kick-started has with a bang.
With its new premium Primus and Ampere NXG, it is targeting buyers seeking a faster and more stylish ride
'While we have done a few thousand kilometres in India, most of the testing and data collection and analysis has been done in the US, Japan and Europe.'
The China auto show saw some amazing models being rolled out, some for the first time. Rajesh Karera/Rediff.com picks the best of the lot.
The company is also working on an automatic variant of the car/
Electric two-wheelers have zipped past the half-a-million registration mark and achieved a market penetration of 4 per cent at the fag end of Calendar 2022, according to data released by VAHAN. According to VAHAN data for the year (until December 27), 560,000 two-wheelers were registered in the country, up a staggering fourfold over 2021, when only 136,000 were registered, and when electric vehicle penetration was a mere 1.05 per cent. The total number of two-wheelers (internal combustion engine, or ICE, and electric) registered so far in 2022 stands at 14.5 million, up only 12.7 per cent over the previous calendar year.
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.
India is sceptical that Tesla might import into the country cars made in China. Tesla executives were in India last month and appear to have proposed a factory in the country. But do not be surprised if that does not happen in a hurry.
'We are going to have hybrid cars, which, as far as I know, none of our competition is working on, and this includes ethanol.'
Honda also unveiled the all-new CR-V and Civic sedan as part of its plan to launch six new products in the Indian market over the next three years.
'Volkswagen made some big mistakes.'
Nissan had relaunched the Datsun brand, its third global brand, along side Nissan and Infiniti, in March 2012.
That means a manufacturer looking at a market like India needs to decide whether small, cheap cars or small, expensive cars or both will work better for them, says Pavan Lall.
Maruti Suzuki says it has sold at least one car in 418,000 villages.
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This year it is being held between September 29 to October 14.
It will be fitted in a new car codenamed YL7, which will replace A-Star and Estilo.
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