Automakers Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra and Audi India on Monday announced plans to hike prices of their passenger vehicles in January 2024 citing reasons, including cost pressure driven by overall inflation and increased commodity rates. Besides, Tata Motors and Mercedes-Benz India are mulling increasing the prices of their models from January. The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India, which sells a range of vehicles from entry-level small car Alto to multi-utility vehicle Invicto, priced between Rs 3.54 lakh and Rs 28.42 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), on Monday said the price hike would vary from model to model.
Radical Sikh preacher and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh's brother Harpreet Singh has been apprehended by Jalandhar police in a drug case, a senior police official said on Friday.
The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the blast was a suicide attack targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers and investors leaving the Jinnah International Airport.
Excise duty on small cars is cut to 8 per cent where as the tax on large- and mid-sized cars has been brought down to 20 per cent.
Driven by Hyundai Motors, exports of passenger cars from India jumped 28 per cent to 1,60,677 units in the financial year ended March 31, 2005.\n
Customers will not gain as much as it appears to be from reduction in excise duty on small cars as announced in the budget for 2006-07 as manufacturers had already raised the prices ahead of the Budget.
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Almost all car makers are trying to catch consumers' eyeballs by offering cash discounts, free insurance and paying registration charges of the car, distributing gift cheques, silver and gold coins and free accessories.
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When the landslide hit, Sruthi's house was washed away, along with its inhabitants. She lost her entire family and some relatives. All she had left for a close confidante was her fiance Jenson. Days after the landslide and the loss of her family, Jenson died in a road accident that also left Sruthi with serious injuries. News of the accident and Sruthi's backdrop as the lone surviving member of a family wiped out in the July landslide, was picked up by the media, and people rushed to help.
Tata Motors twice fixed faulty parts of the Nano.
'The Triber, which sits between the Kwid and the Duster in the Renault portfolio, is an affordable option for those who have their sights set on a multipurpose vehicle and want to get something different from, say, a Maruti Suzuki Ertiga,' says Pavan Lall.
Salvatore Schillaci, who was born in the Sicilian city of Palermo and was hospitalised there, suffered from colon cancer.
Excise duty relief brought in by the Budget may wither away on input cost pressure for cars in India. In light of these details, Indian car makers are contemplating hiking car prices, although none of them has confirmed the exact hike. Top executives from the auto industry have said the hike could be around 3-5 per cent. Most of the car manufacturers had already slashed prices (on small cars) in the beginning of March following the Budget announcement of a cut in excise duty.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were 'pretty nervous' as they were chased by paparazzi in New York, according to an Indian-American cab driver who drove the couple for about 10 minutes after picking them up at a police station in Manhattan.
The Indian consumer has never had it so good. Gone are the days when you had just two choices -- either a Fiat or an Ambassador. Now you are spoilt for choice. With various international brands entering the market, there is no dearth of options. Car buying is also becoming cheaper due to launch of small cars by many players.
The entire range of Hyundai's diesel cars - from compact ones to SUV models, including the soon-to-be-launched Aura - will be eco-friendly.
Raakhee, who turns 77 on August 15, remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle. Dinesh Raheja remembers Raakhee telling him how she loves the rains and how she would drive down to Tulsi Lake in the 1970s and float paper boats in the water. He would like to imagine that Raakhee still does that at her farmhouse.
The company had sold 4,758 units in the same month last year.
Maruti Suzuki continues to dominate the Indian automobile market with its best-selling cars like Alto, WagonR and Swift. Maruti Alto has maintained its position of India's best-selling model.
India's biggest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd on Thursday announced an across-the-board price hike, though marginally by 0.38 per cent.
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'Bharat has been leading, but it cannot carry India as the bulk of the sales come from India in terms of volume and profitability.'
The vehicle would be the electric version of General Motors' small car 'Spark'. Reva would provide battery technology for the E-Spark.
'The people of India have shown immense faith in the Tata group as they have never broken the trust of Indians.'
The production and concept vehicles which are to be displayed include the company's hybrid sedan Chevrolet Volt, sports-car Chevrolet Camaro, sports utility vehicle Captiva Extreme, electric version of its small car Spark, CNG version of Chevrolet Aveo and its race car WTCC Cruze.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called up Rishabh Pant's mother when the star wicketkeeper-batter was recuperating from his injuries after a car crash and had told doctors to treat him abroad if required.
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Besides being budget-oriented these cars also offer fantastic performance and mileage.
From setting up cutting-edge facilities to cater to the domestic market and building capabilities of global standards, the action is building up.
The hike in excise duty has only added on to their woes. However, with nil action on diesel vehicles, the demand for passenger vehicles will be strongly skewed.
Maruti Suzuki India on Monday said it has hiked prices of its vehicles across models by about 1.1 per cent. This is the second price hike that the carmaker is undertaking in the ongoing fiscal year, after increasing it in April 2022. In December last year, the company had said it would hike prices of its vehicles to offset the impact of rising input costs and make provisions to update the model range to conform to stricter emission norms which will kick in from April 2023.
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The Rs 1-lakh to Rs 5-lakh (Rs 100,000 to Rs 500,000) category sees the most amount of enquires and sales in the Indian car market.
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