Honda has finally plunged into the fast growing urban crossover segment in India with the newly minted BR-V seven-seater SUV.
This is the seventh straight month of growth
Declining motorcycle sales remained a cause of worry.
Toyota had announced a global recall of 65 lakh vehicles to rectify a power window glitch, which could lead to fire risk.
Ford is among several multinational automobile companies in India for whom exports now bring bigger volumes than local sales.
The car has a good balance of ride and handling, excellent packaging, good performance and is priced competitively.
Honda has finally made its entrance into the country's competitive compact car segment, with the launch of the Honda Jazz. In Mumbai, Jazz standard will cost Rs 7.43 lakh (Rs 743,000), Jazz Mode Rs 773,000 (Rs 773,000) and Jazz Active Rs 778,000 (Rs 778,000).
Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and Mahindra failed to register significant growth.
Honda is all set to launch the CBR650F alongwith mutliple other motorcycles at the Honda RevFest 2015 that will be held simultaneously across 8 cities (New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Indore and Ahmedabad) on August 4, 2015.
Honda Siel Cars India unveiled on Friday sports utility vehicle 'CR-V' as part of efforts to increase its topline by 50 per cent this fiscal.
live with the car and you know why 'Nothing else is a Jazz'
The 2-3 per cent reduction on the ex-showroom prices would be effective from Sunday, a company release said.
Honda Siel Cars India is seriously considering Tamil Nadu and three other states for setting up its second India manufacturing facility, which will be producing small cars.
The new Honda Accord will be available in three types -- Accord 2.4, Accord 2.4 Elegance and Accord 2.4 Inspire. The price of the vehicles start from Rs 16,49,000 (ex-showroom Delhi) and go up to Rs 18,14,000.
The new variant -- Exclusive -- of the Honda City will have many additional features vis-a-vis the regular one, such as leather seats and leather steering.
Taking exception to an advertisement by Maruti Suzuki India in November last year in one of the newspapers published in Chandigarh, HSCI's notice said a comparison between SX4 and the new Honda City was made, which had 'given completely false figures of the new Honda City in order to show superiority of your product SX4.' The comparison relates to height and length of the new Honda City as well as the 'absence' of integrated stereo systems.
HSCI has now appointed Seki Inaba the director (marketing) for the Indian market. Inaba, who takes over from Tatsuya Natsume, will be responsible for marketing, sales and after-sales initiatives of the company in the country.
The car will now be available between Rs 7.49 lakh (Rs 749,000) and Rs 9.89 lakh (Rs 989,000) -- ex-showroom, Delhi, a statement from Honda Siel Cars India said.
With the central sales tax holiday enjoyed by it in Uttar Pradesh coming to an end, Honda Siel Car India has hiked the price across different models by up to Rs 5,000.
Honda dealers stopped taking orders for Jazz. The company will, however, deliver pending orders.
The Honda City is one of the highest selling C-segment sedans in the Indian market today.
Hyundai has hit pay dirt in India's sedan market, but Honda will strike back.
From discounts to hundred per cent financing to talks of a price hike, companies are doing everything to ensure retail sales pick up this month.
Car sales likely to touch record 3-mn mark by the end of March.
The investment will allow the plant, which currently builds car parts, to produce full vehicles.
A three-hour heavy downpour accompanied by a dust storm hit Delhi-NCR early morning on Friday, causing flight delays and traffic disruptions as seven people were killed in rain-related incidents across north India.
'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 top end BR-V has been priced at Rs 12.90 lakh as opposed to Rs 14.43 lakh for Creta's top variant
According to trade experts Hero MotoCorp's Maestro is going to give a tough competition to Honda Activa.
Sales of commercial vehicles rose 5.30 per cent to 52,481 units in January this year, SIAM said.
Honda has decided to price the small car below Rs 500,000 to be able to compete with Maruti Suzuki Swift and Hyundai i20.
Anthony Davidson will continue as Honda's test driver this season rather than racing for Super Aguri.
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The company said its compact car Honda Brio will be launched as per the original schedule during the festival season this year.
Auto companies are looking to increase prices of their models mainly to offset higher input and operational costs.
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Vehicle sales across categories registered an increase of 5.03 per cent to 16,03,292 units from 15,26,514 units in November 2013.
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.
The heart breaking Japanese catastrophe and huge booking orders of Etios saloon being the respective reasons.
Honda Siel Cars India on Tuesday reported an impressive 58.5 per cent per cent sales growth to 1,827 units in November 2003 over 1,152 units in the same month last year.
