With nearly 100 launches and unveils, the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025, held in Delhi from January 17 to 22, made one thing clear to automobile enthusiasts: Electric vehicles (EVs) are the way ahead for the Indian auto market for years to come.
The vehicle was launched in India in 2009 with a hefty price tag of over Rs 700,000 which was slashed by Rs 160,000 later.
Japanese auto major Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI), which recently forayed into the intensely competitive small car segment with the Brio, has brought an old hand on deck to grow operations aggressively in the Indian market.
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"In light of the recent devastating earthquake that hit Japan, causing massive damage to life and property, Honda Siel Cars India has postponed the Honda Brio India preview event scheduled to be held on March 17, 2011," the company said in a statement.
Honda's chief executive on Sunday disputed the low-cost business model championed by India's Tata Motors, saying that bad roads and high petrol prices would keep many emerging market travellers on motorcycles for years to come.
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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.
'Without his vision and foresight, his willingness to take a risk that no one else was willing to take, his deep and abiding love for India, the Indian automobile industry could not have become the powerhouse that it has become.'
The automatic variant of the SUV is priced at Rs 11.99 lakh
Plug-in hybrids have two engines and the electric part has a much larger battery than in the regular hybrids. Car companies, led by the Japanese, are pushing the Indian government to look at hybrids in the interim if it wants to reduce carbon emission.
Honda will set up its second car manufacturing plant in India near here at an estimated investment of Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion).
At a time when consumers increasingly embrace green mobility solutions, it is not electric cars but hybrids that are taking the lead, as automotive sales data indicate. Since January, 64,097 electric cars have been sold compared to 266,465 hybrids, according to data from the ministry of road transport and highways' Vahan dashboard. Hybrid car sales have surged from 4.42 per cent of the 4.1 million cars sold in calendar year 2022 to 7.2 per cent this year.
Maruti Suzuki India's grip on the country's car market tightened in October with six of its models, including the newly launched mid-sized sedan Ciaz, featuring in the top 10 selling brands in the month.
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India's luxury car rental market is experiencing a surge in demand, particularly in Tier 1 cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi, with executive travellers, especially from the tech sector and younger demographics like the millennials and the Gen Z, increasingly renting high-end vehicles for special occasions and domestic travel. Luxorides, a luxury car rental company, observed a 40 per cent year-on-year rise in bookings in 2024 (until April) on popular routes like Delhi-Rishikesh, Delhi-Vrindavan, and Delhi-Jim Corbett National Park, as well as Chandigarh-Manali and Chandigarh-Ladakh.
Customers would not have to pay for the additional repairs to their Brio, Amaze or CR-V, built between September, 2011 and July, 2014, recalled by Honda Cars India to replace faulty airbags.
Announcement comes following a production cut by Honda Motor at its plants in Japan following a shortage of components due to the impact of the Tsunami on its parts suppliers.
India is the first country to launch the second generation Amaze and the car has been developed considering the needs and aspirations of Indian customers
Honda Siel Cars India on Friday said it will hike the prices of its production models in India by next week, while a new version of its top-end model Accord is expected by the second week of January.
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Due to the continued pressure of high costs, Toyota is considering a price increase of up to 3 per cent across models with effect from January.
Compact sedans (Maruti Dzire, Hyundai Aura, Tata Tigor)' share in the overall sedan category grew from 68% in 2021 to 74.6% in 2024. Mid-sedans' (Honda City, Maruti Ciaz, Volkswagen Virtus) share declined from 26.2% in 2021 to 20.2%.
Car maker Honda Siel Cars India on Thursday launched the third generation model of its Sedan, City, priced between Rs 7.7 lakh and Rs 8.9 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
A total of 15,623 Brios and 15,603 Amaze cars will be recalled
Leading carmakers Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Tata Motors reported robust dispatches to dealers in May on the back of strong demand for passenger vehicles across regions, even as the global semiconductor shortage continued to impact production. Mahindra & Mahindra, Kia India, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Honda Cars and Skoda also witnessed strong demand for their models last month. The month of May also witnessed Tata Motors race ahead of Hyundai in terms of domestic wholesales.
In response to challenge from new diesel models in India's premium mid-size sedan car segment, Honda is developing a diesel engine for Honda City.
The company, which runs operations in India through a joint venture with the Siel Group -- Honda Siel Cars India -- said the recall will cover only the third-generation City models that were manufactured between November 2008, and December 2009.
Buying a car, particularly a diesel-powered one, is set to pinch the customers' pockets even more from the next financial year, as the second phase of Bharat Stage VI (BSVI) emission norms kicks in. The rules require cars to be compliant with real driving emission (RDE) norms, which measure pollutants emitted by cars while they are being driven on the road, unlike in a laboratory test. The norms may increase the cost of producing diesel vehicles by nearly Rs 75,000 to Rs 80,000, and petrol-powered ones by Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000, analysts said.
Japanese auto giant Honda Motors on Thursday said it was willing to divest its stake in Honda Siel Cars India Ltd to its domestic joint venture partner Siel Ltd.
Honda Siel Cars India said on Wednesday it was planning to launch two models in India, including its popular hatchback Jazz, to mark the company's foray into small car segment in the country.
The Japanese automaker has derived the WR-V from the Jazz and it gets quite a lot of changes over the premium hatchback.
Toyota had announced a global recall of 65 lakh vehicles to rectify a power window glitch, which could lead to fire risk.
During May, Maruti Suzuki's domestic car sales were up 2.59 per cent at 87,402 units as against 85,190 units in the same month last year.
Car makers are cautiously optimistic, even as two-wheeler firms are clearly upbeat.
Passenger vehicle sales are expected to experience muted growth in the current financial year.
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