India's largest automobile manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki is planning to launch the company's entry-level sports utility vehicle, Jimny in the country by the year-end.
"We are expecting to launch the high-premium SUV 'Outlander' by this year itself in the Indian market and it would be placed between Mitsubishi's Pajero and Montero," company's Executive Vice-President Y V S Vijay Kumar told reporters here on the sidelines of HM's tie-up with Pune-based Opulent Auto Care.
Mahindra had bought Renault's 49 per cent stake in the troubled Mahindra Renault Private Ltd, while gaining limited autonomy to the Logan sedan, in an effort to turn around the loss-making company.
The government on Friday raised the export duty on iron ore and long steel products used in construction in another attempt to cool prices, rewarded flat steel producers with duty-free exports after they promised to hold prices and imposed fresh excise duty on large cars and sports utility vehicles to dissuade conspicuous expenditure.
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
Hyundai Motors on Wednesday enhanced its product portfolio in India by bringing in Tucson, its latest sports utility vehicle.
Hyundai Motor India also plans to raise its sales in the overseas market this year.
These days, majority of car buyers do their research online before buying a car.
It is the global leader in car sales but in India, is a distant fifth.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover on Monday launched a special edition of its latest sports utility vehicle Range Rover Evoque, which will hit the market in October with a price tag of 79,995 pound (over Rs 65 lakh).
The company would consider to bring in some of these models to India in future, the homologation of which would be carried out in due course of time. The company on Monday unveiled the prototype of its racing car R15 in Ingolstadt.
After rise in duties, third-party motor insurance rates set to increase premiums 5 - 10 per cent.
There are some sports utility vehicles that are expensive and then there are some that are really expensive.
Hyundai Motor India expects SUV sales to account for 65 per cent of its overall volumes in 2024, while it gears up to enter the EV segment early next year, aiming to garner 20 per cent of its total sales by 2030, its COO Tarun Garg said on Tuesday. The automaker, which got around 60 per cent of its overall volumes from sports utility vehicle (SUV) sales last year, plans to invest Rs 7,000 crore on its second plant at Talegaon, according to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The company officials however declined to comment on the matter.
Mahindra & Mahindra has decided to curtail its capital expenditure of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) in view of the ongoing slump in demand for cars and sports utility vehicles in the domestic market.
Mitsubishi Motors will be strengthening its position in the high growth sports utility vehicle market by launching the all-new Outlander in early 2008.
In the past, Tata Motors gave India its many first - country's first indigenous car (Tata Indica), first sports utility vehicle (Safari), first micro truck (Ace) or a Rs 100,000 car for the common citizen (Nano). After JLR's acquisition, however, the company has failed to connect with Indian car buyers.
Now you can buy Jaguars and Land Rovers from dedicated showrooms in India. Indian owned or not, they represent some of the best sports cars and sports utility vehicles.
The four-door, five-seater pick-up will be priced at Rs 7.62 lakh for the 4X2 version and Rs 8.58 lakh for the 4X4 version (ex-showroom Delhi). The car will be powered by the same engine which powers the group's sports utility vehicle Safari. It will have 2.2 VTT Dicor diesel engine, which belts out a power of 140 bhp. The car does not have much competition in the lifestyle pick-up market with the only other vehicle in the space being Mahindra's Scorpio Getaway.
Apart from considering a sports utility vehicle on its premium hatchback Jazz platform, using the same 1.5 litre engine that will power the entry level sedan Amaze, R&D officials of the company said they are also working on smaller diesel engines keeping in mind the Indian market.
Ford India launched the premium action sports utility vehicle, which is equipped with a 2.5 litre duratorq engine and is available as 4x2 wheel drive and 4x4 wheel drive variants at the cost of Rs 14,72,000 ($36,058).
Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday unveiled its Scorpio and Bolero models in South Africa.
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.
The vehicle will be available in both petrol and diesel variants.
The company's domestic market share is down to low single digits from nearly 15 per cent a decade ago and its bread-and-butter commercial vehicle business faces a slowdown as well as intense competition.
The new SUV has been made more stylish, dynamic and comfortable while retaining its core DNA.
While a refurbished Laura would hit the roads some time next month, a premium mid-sized sedan, Rapid, would arrive by the end of the year.
"At this point of time, our completely knocked down (CKD) operations are fully fulfilling the new regulations. We are paying 10 per cent duty... There will be no price hike," BMW India President Andreas Schaaf told reporters in New Delhi.
Ford India has entered the sports utility vehicle segment of the domestic car market by rolling out its globally popular SUV Endeavour at its manufacturing facility near Chennai on Wednesday.
German carmakers Audi, BMW and Skoda launched their dazzling new models at the Auto expo, in New Delhi, on Tuesday.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi came out on the street of Delhi on Saturday night and joined thousands of ecstatic fans in celebrating India's World Cup cricket triumph.
Tucson is slated to be launched later this year
The new model from the British marquee brand Land Rover will be available in both petrol and diesel engine options.
The DRI sleuths seized the vehicle of businessman Chandan Basu during an ongoing probe into a racket of importing cars by evading custom duty upto 105 per cent
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd has raised the prices of its sports utility vehicle Scorpio by Rs 6,500 and that of its multi-utility Bolero by Rs 4,500, effective March 15.
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Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors Corporation has decided to manufacture its sports utility vehicle Outlander in India, through its Indian joint venture with Hindustan Motors, a C K Birla Group company. The Indian JV currently manufactures the Lancer range of sedans, sells Montero, a premium segment sedan, and imports completely built SUV Pajero. The company had earlier considered the option of importing Outlander as a fully-built unit for the Indian market.
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