Auto manufacturers have been recalling vehicles on safety issues.
Global expansion to drive the company's fortunes
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George Acland from Great Britain ran a coffee plantation in Sri Lanka and set up India's first jute mill in 1855. He raised capital and imported the machinery for the mill on the banks of the Hooghly in West Bengal. His company wasn't a great success, but his pioneering work paved the way for India to dominate the jute industry.
Figo will be powered by a 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine.
A source close to the company said no appointment was likely until the last week of January or in February.
Will the Indian auto giant manage to take Jaguar and Land Rover off Ford's hands?
"The small car will be our new model and it will be rolled out by early 2010," Ford India Executive Director Nigel E Wark told reporters in Kolkata. He said the company is yet to decide on the target segment of the small car, but added that it would not compete with small cars like Nano from Tata Motors' stable.
Exports in August were up 10.3 per cent to 12,472 units from 11,305 units in the same month of previous year.
If all goes well, Ford India will park its second manufacturing unit right next to Tata Motors' Nano factory at Sanand.
The Chapter 11 protection has been sought for the company and certain of its US subsidiaries. In a statement on Thursday, Visteon said that none of its subsidiaries or joint ventures outside the US are part of the filing.
The Aspire offers the best of performance and efficiency, something which is unheard of in this segment. It is neither outdated nor unreliable and no other car in its segment can come close to the Aspire's VFM proposition.
Tata Motors, India's largest commercial vehicle maker, has postponed plans for an overseas equity issue and sale of investments to repay the $3 billion bridge loan it took in June last year to acquire the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford.
It manufactures cars ranging from entry-level hatchbacks to sedans to sport utility vehicles to vans to pick-up trucks. It also has a range of electric and hybrid vehicles
India has exported passenger vehicles worth $268 million to the US in three months ended June
We no longer have the ambition to rival China save through words. We are happy to be fighting ourselves and digging up disputes from centuries ago as a substitute for real development, argues Aakar Patel.
American auto giant Ford is likely to retain a stake and continue supplying engines and some of the components for Jaguar and Land Rover, even after the sale of the two British luxury brands, media reports said in the United Kingdom.
Auto maker Ford India on Thursday said it has hiked prices by 1-5 per cent on different models with immediate effect to offset rising input costs.
India's corporate honchos spent a considerable time and energy this year at deal tables and executed over thousand transactions involving sale or purchase of equity stakes in their companies. On an average, every single day of 2007 saw about three deals being announced. This included a total of 1,047 merger and acquisitions as well as private equity deals for a total value of $68.32 billion (about Rs 2,75,000 crore).
Sanand has catapulted into the big league of automobile industry hubs.
Maruti sold 191 units of SX4 sedan in January 2014.
The revised prices enhances the accessibility of these outstanding products, which offer segment-first safety features and class-leading technologies
He says that while 30 per cent of parts must be locally sourced, the supply doesn't yet exist in India to support that
The stock of the country's largest passenger vehicle maker, Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL), has been hitting successive all-time highs over the past three trading sessions. The rally in the scrip has helped it notch over a 21 per cent gain since the start of February, outperforming the National Stock Exchange Nifty Auto Index. The gains for the leader of small passenger cars have been more recent, as the company still trails the Nifty Auto over one- and two-year periods.
The new financial year started on a mixed note for car makers.
General Motors India on Thursday unveiled its new mid-size sedan Opel Vectra in the premium car segment with ex-showroom price of Rs 15.99 lakh (Rs 1.59 million) in Delhi and Rs 16.9 lakh (Rs 1.69 million) in Mumbai.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Monday reported a 29.1 per cent rise in total sales in October.
Many say Tata Motors has perhaps paid the price for being too ambitious.
Thousands of workers of every description -- from journalists to steel workers, from painters to New York cops, from auto to engineering workers -- marched for two hours down 5th Avenue one of Manhattan's most iconic thoroughfares, reports Jyoti Punwani.
The partnership will look to expand Ford's reach in the fast-growing Indian market and improve M&M's access to global markets
Seven of the 30 largest U.S. corporations paid more money to their chief executive officers last year than they paid in U.S. federal income taxes, according to a study released on Tuesday that was disputed by at least one of the companies.
Firm attributes move to pandemic and legal spat with Fiat Chrysler, says it is in line with group's strategy to re-think capital allocation and drive efficiency.
General Motors aims to grab at least 5 per cent market share in India within the next decade.
Clock 11% growth in the first 11 months of 2022.
Leading Indian public sector banks State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Syndicate Bank are close to committing a part of the $3 billion bridge loan that Tata Motors has to raise to finance the acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.
It is the global leader in car sales but in India, is a distant fifth.
The 2015 Ford Figo is a completely new product and does not share anything with its earlier model
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