The government seems to have come to the rescue of potential car buyers.
Over seven lakh vehicles have been recalled by various manufacturers in India since 2012.
Over seven lakh vehicles have been recalled by various manufacturers in India since 2012.
After several unsuccessful attempts to enter the Indian market, Europe's largest car manufacturer Volkswagen has finalised its plans for a manufacturing plant in Pune at an investment of Rs 2,450 crore ($530 million).
It will be prices between Rs 506,000 and Rs 775,000.
During the six-day-long event, automakers have planned 10 global launches, 26 India specific launches, six concept vehicles, seven facelifts and 21 vehicle unveilings.
Ford Motor Co plans to triple exports from India.
"In view of the ongoing CBI inquiry into the issue, we have declined to accept the money. We are more interested in seeing that Volkswagen sets up its car plant here," Reddy told reporters.
There are a whopping 10 sedans slated for a launch in India this year. Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com gives the lowdown.
From Maruti to Honda, every big manufacturer has lined up launches in the domestic market.
Five small cars in the Indian market failed in the first-ever independent crash tests.
BMW sold 9,375 units in India in 2012, topping the list of luxury car makers for the fourth consecutive year.
BMW is just another of the many bringing entry-level luxury cars to the market.
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Making a debut in India with an SUV, Citroen's products in the next couple of years will clearly chart and define its destiny in what has become both a vibrant but also a daunting market for foreign entrants, says Pavan Lall.
The German carmaker will not introduce all-new models in 2013. Plans to launch such variants too keep sales going.
Dutch financial major ABN Amro will sell its fleet management arm LeasePlan Corporation, which has operations in India and 25 other countries, to Volkswagen and two other companies for 2.13 billion euro.
If you are a fan of Audi cars, then this will surely be good news for you!
Maruti Suzuki posted a marginal increase in January and the likes of Hyundai, Ford and Mahindra & Mahindra reporting a single-digit growth.
India wasn't applying widespread crash testing like foreign countries do, so manufacturers didn't see the need for an investment focus on safety. Customers rarely walked into showrooms asking for the safest car. They wanted the cheapest or the most fuel-efficient or the best-looking car.
Of the top 10 companies expected to gain market share in future, only two Volkswagen and BMW come from Western nations.
Prakash Bhandari salutes the spirit of Abebe Bikila who twice won the Olympic Marathon in record times.
Maruti Suzuki India and Tata Motors reported decline in sales during June this year.
This is the first time a global company is looking to introduce an SUV in this price segment.
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday slapped a penalty of Rs 2,545 crore on 14 top carmakers of the country for violating trade norms in the spare-part andafter-sale service market.
Audi, the premium car maker from the Volkswagen fold and the latest entrant in the luxury segment, has declared its intention: topple Mercedes Benz from its second spot in the next two years.
According to experts, Tata Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP -- a sedan and hatchback -- are not only powerful and faster than every other car in the segment, but also in the segment above, including their peers Maruti Baleno RS, Volkswagen Polo and others.
Besides opening up the possibility of a policy that allows vintage cars retrofitted with electric batteries to ply on roads, this also gives a clue to how cars older than 15 years that are banned can be valued again by a similar conversion to EVs, says Ritwik Sharma.
If IOC is not allowed to run its own affairs, then we can see it close down in the next 10 to 15 years, warns Sudhir Bisht.
Tata now occupies the fourth slot with the incremental volumes from the Tiago
Auto giants like Hyundai, Volkswagen and Nissan too will hike prices, even though no announcement has yet been made.
The Ambassador was a durable enough brand to outlive the licence raj.
India, one of the world's fastest growing auto markets, will see the launch of over ten vehicles, including small cars during the 10th Auto Expo.
Spare parts from Indian car makers are available with all retailers, but that is not the case with international car makers.
Tata Motors has halved the volume outlook for its UK subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover Automotive (JLR) and warned of lower earnings as it sees the semiconductor shortage deepening in the September quarter of the current financial year, according to a notification issued by the company to the stock exchanges on Tuesday. The announcement caught investors unawares. They were hoping for a quicker recovery. Tata Motors' stock tanked 13 per cent (on July 6) from the day's high of Rs 358.10 and hit the lower circuit (Rs 311.45) in intra-day trades.
This is the era of affordable cars and car manufacturers across the world are trying to come up with affordable cars that can be sold like hot cakes.
With the domestic auto market going on a downhill slide, Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki have cut production as the automobile industry braces up for a single digit sales growth this fiscal.
SkodaAuto, which was the first VW group firm to enter the domestic market about a decade ago, also intends to become more affordable in the long-term, enabling it to enter more segments.
India's Ankita Das fought valiantly and stretched World No 10 China's Ruochen Gu to six games before losing in the quarter-finals of the Volkswagen World Junior Table Tennis Championships, in Bahrain on Sunday.
Motherson Sumi, Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover will face higher cost.
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