Led by Maruti Suzuki, Japanese cars stole the limelight at JD Power Asia Pacific 2004 award function with only the Tata Motors holding fort among Indian car markers with Safari
The Swift Diesel is all set to change passenger market car dynamics. It is also a strategic shift for Maruti Udyog.
India's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd is toying with the idea of sourcing components from the global market as part of its strategy to become more cost competitive.
India's biggest challenge is to bring in more first time buyers, says Maruti MD Jagdish Khattar.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers has asked the government to scrap about 70 million old vehicles, including cars, even as a transporters' body opposed any such move which could severely affect the domestic auto industry.
Maruti Udyog Ltd said on Wednesday that it would record highest-ever exports of 50,000 cars this fiscal.
Maruti Udyog Ltd will invest Rs 2,718 crore (Rs 27.18 billion) for introducing new models, research and development and upgradation in the country by 2008.
India's largest carmaker Maruti Udyog expects to resume normal production soon, after an over three-month long strike at one of its key component suppliers was called off last week.
In 1993, when Maruti Udyog managing director Jagdish Khattar was just a week old in the company, the Zen was launched.
Maruti Udyog, the country's largest car manufacturer, will launch its cars in South Africa by next year and re-enter the European market in 2008-09.
Maruti Udyog on Wednesday launched Euro III-compliant versions of compact cars Zen and WagonR and Baleno sedan, sporting higher price tags, and plans to increase steel procurement from the domestic market.
Maruti Udyog Ltd will hold 70 per cent stake in the new subsidiary, while the remaining would be with the Japanese company, MUL Managing Director Jagdish Khattar told reporters in New Delhi after the company's board meeting.
Maruti Udyog Ltd, India's biggest carmaker, would set up a Rs 350 crore (Rs 3,500 million) diesel engine plant at Gurgaon in line with its plan to become a major player in diesel vehicles in a couple of years.
India's biggest carmaker Maruti has said it could soon ink an agreement with one of the global engine makers it is in talks with, including France-based Peugeot, to produce diesel engines in the country.
Maruti Udyog Ltd on Friday said the repositioning of compact car Alto would give the customer yet another option at the entry-level while asserting that its bread and butter model Maruti 800 would not be phased out.
In a major boost to the automobile industry, the finance minister on Tuesday cut the excise duty on small cars to 16%.
Maruti Udyog Ltd, India's largest carmaker, unveiled on Thursday a new-look Zen, without tinkering with the price, to take on competition posed by Hyundai's Santro and Tata Motors' Indica.
Country's largest car maker Maruti Udyog Ltd today said it would come out with a diesel variant of one of its existing models by the end of next year equipped with engine from its diesel plant in Maneshar in Haryana.
The Maruti Udyog Ltd's scrip on Wednesday opened at Rs 158.40 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Maruti Udyog Ltd on Wednesday launched the popular sports-utility-vehicle Grand Vitara XL-7 and said its passenger vehicle sales would increase considerably this fiscal.
Maruti Udyog Ltd on Wednesday launched its new model 'Swift' in India, pricing the base model at Rs 3.87 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
Captains of the Indian industry on Monday welcomed the Union Budget 2005-06 describing it as growth-oriented.
Maruti Udyog on Monday said its cars were set to become dearer by 2-2.5% owing to rise in steel prices and technology cost for new emission norms.
India's second-biggest carmaker Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Wednesday raised prices of its two models while market leader Maruti and Czech car firm Skoda announced plans to follow suit next month to meet the rise in input costs and new emission norms.
The top brass of Maruti Udyog Ltd, India's largest carmaker, is in Japan to work out with its parent Suzuki Motor Corp the details of the action plan for the mega Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) investment announced recently.
In an aggressive bid to increase market share, India's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd on Monday launched a new-look mid-size sedan Esteem at Rs 40,000 less than the price of the existing car.
Maruti Udyog Ltd will maintain its share of more than half the country's car market for "quite some time," boosted by the sale of cars it introduced in the last three years, managing director Jagdish Khattar said.
India's biggest car maker Marutyi Udyog Ltd, a unit of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp, said on Wednesday it may have to temporarily close its plant due a nationwide strike by truckers now in its third day.
Maruti Udyog Limited said on Monday it was ready to face any challenge and retain leadership position in the car market in short to medium- term.\n\n
Swift Dzire has clocked 2.5 million in sales, and you might, in a non-too-distant future, see headlines that the DZire has done 3 million as well, observes Suveen Sinha.
Saini's elevation as Haryana chief minister fits in with a pattern that has gathered pace in the BJP after the Congress and its allies like the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar began making an aggressive bid to woo the largest group of communities and politically most significant, especially in Hindi-speaking states, by pushing for a caste census.
Corporate India tempered its victory celebrations for the supposedly business-friendly Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance's landslide electoral victory by highlighting the need for immediate steps to create jobs through inclusive economic growth.
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