Reports suggest that this new sedan has a lot of potential to beat its competitors in the segment.
The iconic Volkswagen Beetle has caught the imagination of well-heeled Indians who do not mind forking out a fortune to buy the bug.
Regional film producers have started echoing what their Bollywood counterparts have been saying for a while: If there is a movie, there will be products placed in it, mostly those that have paid big money to be in the frame.
Spare parts from Indian car makers are available with all retailers, but that is not the case with international car makers.
Lenders offer both fixed and floating rates and the period usually varies between three and five years.
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.
While Toyota will acquire 4.94 per cent shares of Suzuki, worth $ 908 million, the latter will make a $ 454-million investment in the biggest automaker of Japan. Premium products from the Maruti stable such as the Baleno, Ciaz and Vitara Brezza will be sold under the Toyota brand with small changes.
Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai and M&M draw visitors with a range of concept cars.
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.
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.
Honda's economy motorcycle Twister was chosen Bike of the Year.
Maruti Suzuki India and Tata Motors reported decline in sales during June this year.
Reflecting the woes of the Indian automobile industry, the country's car exports remained flat at 550,466 units in 2013-14, during which domestic sales fell for the second consecutive year.
Companies like Volkswagen, Renault, Jaguar, Mercedes et al are planning models against some successful existing ones.
The model will be assembled at its 4,000-acre facility coming up at Sanand in Gujarat.
These photographs are sure to take your breath away!
The Bentayga can go from a standstill to 100 km/hr in 4.5 seconds, and, if you can keep your foot down, the speedometer will climb all the way to 290 km/hr!
Internet search giant Google tabulated the searches by consumers in India from January 2010 to May 2011.
The family that used to make the legendary sports car wants to bring the same design panache to luxury flats.
Hindustan Motors' iconic car is set to get a radical makeover, but is it too late in the day?
Maruti Suzuki, with a half a dozen models ranging from the best-selling car Alto to WagonR, Swift and Estilo accounts for around 57 per cent of the small car market in India. In the premium hatchback segment, the company's market share stands at a robust 48 per cent.
A 21-year-old Chinese inventor has come up with a new design for an all-terrain vehicle which can be run on roads as well as on sand, ice and even water.
While coveted brands like BMW, Volkswagen, Toyota, are going in for aggressive pricing, country's successful value-for-money trio Tata, Maruti and Hyundai are going horribly wrong.
There are no official confirmed dates available but here's a look at what they have to offer.
The new Mercedes Benz E-Class (W212) is here - an aggressively styled German luxury sedan worth approximately half a crore (Rs 5 million).
India is seen as an emerging market for luxury cars.
Bollywood has always had a special fascination with wheels, be in motorcycles or cars. So it was no wonder that a special enclave was created at the ongoing Auto Expo 2016 in Greater Noida to tip the hat to the iconic films where the automobile played a critical part.
The year 2011 too has a number of hatchbacks ready to be launched.
RIM, maker of BlackBerry, has signalled its intention to cash in on this trend by buying QNX Software Systems -- a key software supplier, to some of the world's leading car companies, including Volkswagen, BMW and Hyundai.
These cars are priced between Rs 12 lakhs (Rs 1.2 million) and Rs 20 lakhs (Rs 2 million).
Reader Shanmugavel shares with us a blooper that he spotted in the movie Aisha.
The holiday season on the New Year eve, regarded as the busiest for car dealers in the Capital turned to be a damp squib as most of them mulled plans to either shut down their business in view of drastic fall in sales.
Carmakers like Porsche, Rolls Royce, Bentley, etc have a number of products to offer in this segment.
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.
The company is looking to exploit the upper B+ segment, which has seen high demand growth since the launch of Maruti's Swift, followed by several models like the Hyundai i20, Fiat Grande Punto, Maruti Ritz, Volkswagen Polo and Nissan Micra.
Car maker Volkswagen India on Monday said it will hike the prices of the diesel variant of its mid-sized sedan Vento by 2.2 per cent from July 1 to offset higher input costs.
New partnerships, exchange of technology, mergers and acquisitions are paving way for new launches in the world car market.
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.
Maruti will showcase its first concept electric vehicle, the e-SURVIVOR; M&M it's six new EVs, including two futuristic concepts
Manufacturers that mainly sell diesel cars like Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen anticipate a significant fall in sales if the government accepts the Parikh committee's recommendation of a flat tax of Rs 80,000 on diesel cars, because of a widening cost differential with petrol variants.
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